Tips, guides, and ideas for runners who share their runs.
The apps that connect to Strava and are worth a runner's time in 2026, grouped by job: training analysis, training plans, posters of your runs, and route and exploration tools. Platforms, Strava link and prices checked on 18 October 2026.
Put your pace, distance and route on a running video: what Strava's share menu does, the manual way in CapCut or iMovie, and an app that fills it from Strava.
Turn a marathon or race on Strava into a keepsake: what a good race poster shows, print-on-demand route posters, a DIY version from GPX, and a phone print.
Relive no longer connects to Strava. These alternatives share a run with your own photo or clip: Strava Flyover, Slid, PicStat, STREIV, SHUTT and Strava's sticker.
Which numbers suit which ride, why speed and power read differently from pace, and how to get speed, elevation and the route onto a cycling photo, by hand or from Strava.
Which stats suit which run, how to keep splits, heart rate and elevation legible on a phone screen, and how to get them onto a photo manually or from Strava.
Strava only shares activities set to Followers or Everyone, and only GPS activities get a map or photo share. Here is how to check both and fix the rest.
Original data from 25,943 Strava runs by 462 runners in 2026: the median run is 7.6 km at 5:44 per km, 37% of runs stop just past a whole kilometre, and 62% of long runs happen at the weekend.
Original data from 380 run photos and videos exported by 71 runners between August and October 2026: 83% photos, 99.7% Instagram Stories, the route on a third of them, and 43% with nothing but the numbers.
Share a Strava run on Instagram with Strava's own Stories share, a cropped screenshot, a Canva design, or an app that puts your stats on your photo or video.
Four Strava Instagram Story templates you can copy: minimal stats, data panel, route focus and then-vs-now, with Canva steps and the 1080 x 1920 safe zones.
SHUTT, Strava's sticker, Relay, PicStat, Run Story, Run Photo, STREIV, Relive and Slid compared: platforms, Strava sync, photo, video, route and pricing.
Add pace, distance and your route to a running photo: Strava's own share, iPhone Markup, a Canva template, or an app that fills the stats from Strava for you.
Make Strava photos look good: use a real photo from the run, show two or three stats in clean type over it, and export at 9:16 for Stories or 4:5 for the feed.