Strava apparently had a very good year. The activity tracking system released some details on usage for 2012. According to the company Strava athletes rode and ran 500 million miles, or 85 percent of the length of Earth’s annual trip around the sun. Strava cyclists ascended over six million meters, equal to the entire peloton in the Tour de France climbing Alpe d’Huez 30,000 times!
Strava runners climbed over 226 million meters, which is on par with running the Speedgoat 50k course more than 67,000 times.
Strava users burned 10.5 billion calories, produced 12 million Kilowatt hours (enough to power NYC for 17 minutes) and one third of KOM’s, QOM’s and CR’s are held by athletes in their 40s – proving that age is nothing but a number.
Let’s hope we do even better next year!