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Originally Posted by Alan T
Most of the premium only content eventually comes for free to everyone else at some point. The only exceptions are the extra analysis from Heart rate monitors, or for cyclist with power meters. Otherwise there is not a bunch of other data that you get extra there.
I personally don't use strava for analytics these days, I use a software program called sporttracks instead. Strava is more my social running hangout so to speak, where you can get encouragement from friends and encourage others. That said, I'll probably renew my premium membership when it is up next year just due to the amount of enjoyment I get from the site.
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I second SportTracks. $35 and it's yours forever. Tons of nice analytics such as monitoring your trainaing load and pace and all. Plugins developed by users, some for a fee, but some available for free.
As for Strava, I'm still paying by the month and it's not really for the extra features but more for the same reason as Alan, to give back for what I'm getting as support.
I bit the bullet on a becoming a lifelong runner on Smashrun yesterday. Paid $129 to get lifetime access to their pro features and it'll be only $1 per year to renew as long as I run 400 km in the year. Regular price of Pro is 59$ but there are only 100 lifelong spots, at least for now. The analytics are pretty impressive with promises of new developments that pro users can vote on and such. I rationalized the $129 that it'll be paid back once I renew in a year...
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