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Strautomator scans every incoming Strava activity and compares it against your stored all-time bests. When you break a record, Strautomator updates the leaderboard, sends you a notification, and makes the ${newRecords} dynamic tag available in your automations so you can celebrate in your activity description or name.

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What gets tracked

Strautomator tracks the following metrics per sport type:
Power-based records (max and average watts) are only tracked for activities recorded with a power meter or smart trainer.

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Plan limits

Free plan

Tracks personal records for Ride and Run sport types only.

PRO plan

Tracks personal records for all sport types supported by Strava.

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Viewing your records

Navigate to Dashboard → My Personal Records to see all of your tracked bests. Records are organized by sport type. Each entry shows:
  • Best value — your all-time record with a link to the Strava activity where you set it
  • 2nd best value — the runner-up result for context
  • Date set — when the record was established
  • An edit icon to manually override the value if needed

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Fetching historical records

Strautomator begins tracking records from the moment you enable the feature. To populate your leaderboard with records from your full Strava history:
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Go to Personal Records

From the Dashboard, click My Personal Records or navigate directly to Dashboard → View All Records.
2

Start the scan

If no records are loaded yet, click Fetch activity records. If records are already populated, click Refresh my records to re-scan your full history.
3

Wait for the scan to complete

Strautomator processes your entire Strava activity history. This can take up to 4 minutes depending on how many activities you have. The page shows a progress indicator while it runs.

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Getting notified of new records

Whenever Strautomator detects a new all-time record from an incoming activity, it sends a notification to your Strautomator notification feed. No configuration is needed — notifications are automatic.

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Using records in automations

Two automation building blocks let you act on new records:

Condition: has new all-time records

Add this condition to an automation so it only fires when the current activity broke at least one all-time record.

Tag: ${newRecords}

Insert ${newRecords} into an activity name or description action. Strautomator replaces it with a comma-separated list of the records broken (e.g., distance, speedMax).
Example: Create an automation with the condition has new all-time records and a Set activity description action containing New records: ${newRecords}! to automatically annotate your activity whenever you set a personal best.

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Editing a record manually

If a record value looks incorrect — perhaps from a GPS glitch or a sensor error — you can override it:
  1. Open Dashboard → My Personal Records.
  2. Click the edit icon (pencil) next to the record you want to change, or click the value itself.
  3. Enter the correct value and save.
Editing a record manually clears the reference to the original activity. The corrected value is used going forward, but the edit cannot be automatically reversed.