Strands Blog

At a press conference today with Abel Antón in Madrid, we excitedly announced a renewed vision for Strands.com (press release here). Strands.com, a service we first launched last May, now aims to provide all of the tools that runners, cyclists, and multi-sport athletes require to log their training and careers. The base for this new service has been the Spanish-based website Mientrenamiento.com created by Vincent Gozalbo, who is now part of the Strands Team.

The latest release of Strands.com allows athletes to log workouts and routes manually through the web, or automatically from Garmin, Nike Plus, and the Strands iPhone App. In addition, users are able to see their statistics graphically, comparing themselves with the rest of the community (or just the people they follow).

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Besides the common features of a daily training log, Strands.com allows its users to add other online services using the idea of “life-streaming.” This enables users to add videos or pictures from services like YouTube and Flickr, and share their training log through Twitter or Facebook. In total there are more than 25 services currently supported.

Although just recently launched with this renewed vision, Strands.com has already proven to be a powerful tool for anyone wanting to train smarter by logging their miles, routes, gear, and nutrition; as well as an effective tool for communicating with training partners and teammates.

This is just the beginning of a feature-packed road map for Strands.com, and we’ll be excited to make more announcements as we continue to grow. And as always we love to hear from you, so feel free to send us your feedback.