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# Personal Records: Track All-Time Bests Across Sports
> Strautomator tracks your all-time bests for distance, speed, power, heart rate, and more — and can trigger automations whenever you break a record.
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.
## What gets tracked
Strautomator tracks the following metrics per sport type:
| Metric | Field |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| Distance | Longest activity |
| Moving time | Longest time in motion |
| Elevation gain | Most climbing in a single activity |
| Max speed | Fastest recorded speed |
| Average speed | Best average speed |
| Max heart rate | Highest heart rate peak |
| Average heart rate | Highest average heart rate |
| Max power | Highest power peak (power meter required) |
| Average power | Best average power (power meter required) |
| Calories | Most calories burned |
Power-based records (max and average watts) are only tracked for activities recorded with a power meter or smart trainer.
## Plan limits
Tracks personal records for **Ride**, **Virtual Ride**, **Run**, and **Virtual Run** sport types.
Tracks personal records for **all sport types** supported by Strava.
## 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
## 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:
From the **Dashboard**, click **My Personal Records** or navigate directly to **Dashboard → View All Records**.
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.
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.
## 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.
## Using records in automations
Two automation building blocks let you act on new records:
Add this condition to an automation so it only fires when the current activity broke at least one all-time record.
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.
## 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.