Why some runners say “Strava is the new Tinder”
that she was fed up with conventional dating apps like Tinder and Hinge, and Bumble. “I’m increasingly feeling that the men I end up swiping right are rarely a good match,” she says. But at least the men she meets on Strava share her love of running. While that in itself isn’t enough to ensure someone will make a great match, “a shared, passionate interest isn’t a bad place to start.”
She notes that when you run with other users, Strava automatically clusters you into a virtual group, so when you open the app again, you receive a notification with their names and profiles. “This means you don’t even have to ask for someone’s number while you’re busy getting your breath back,” she says.
It’s roughly this method that led to one of her friends meeting the guy she’s currently dating. She thought he was attractive and ran behind him at a fun run, so when Strava surfaced his profile later that day, she followed him, which led to kudos and a flirty comment, and “the rest is Strava history.”
Others admit to using Strava as a way to vet potential suitors based on their stats; “I want to know if he’ll be able to keep up with me,” another friend of Evans’, an ultra-marathoner, told her. Evans has even used the ad hoc Strava-as-dating-app approach while traveling abroad. On a trip to Michigan, she met up with a running group for a social run; she was training for the London Marathon and needed to get in the miles anyway. “But five miles, a Strava follow, and 10 hours later,” she was at a bar on a date with a gentleman of interest.
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