Do you import your outings from Strava? Until now they reached MushMate without their track: a date, a distance, a duration, your dogs, and nothing on the map.
What changes for you
Open a session imported from Strava. On the computer, a "Strava track — visible to you only" block shows the outing the way a track recorded with MushMate is shown: the map, the speed chart, elevation gain and loss, per-kilometre times and stops. On your phone, the outing screen shows the map and the per-kilometre times, with or without the stops.
The track is read from Strava the first time you open the session, then kept for you: the next times, it shows without asking Strava again. There is nothing for you to do: the access you gave Strava for the import is enough. If Strava asks you to reconnect, the page says so and gives you the link.
The list of stops says what it leaves out
On the web, for all your outings (recorded with MushMate, imported from a GPX file or from Strava), the list of stops now shows only stops of one minute or more. On a ski outing imported from a watch, it had 23 lines, 14 of them shorter than a minute: the real stops got lost among them.
Nothing is hidden without being said. The total time stopped still counts every stop, and below the list a sentence gives the rest, for example "+ 14 stops under a minute (5:01), not listed" — 5 minutes and 1 second in all. A stop you declared yourself always stays in the list, however short. The stop bands on the chart do not change.
What others see, and what they never see
The other members of your kennel see neither the track nor the session itself: since September 24, a session imported from Strava is visible only to the person who imported it, on the web and on the phone. Only the dogs' training load still counts it.
That is Strava's rule. Since June 1, 2026, its agreement with applications such as MushMate only allows Strava data to be shown to the person who provided it. It makes no exception for a team or a coach.
What this feature does not do
- No sharing. No public link, no GPX download, no "ghost" comparison against a Strava outing's track: each would show your Strava data to others, or take it out of the app.
- No offline track. The track is never stored on the phone. Without a network, the screen tells you it will load when the phone has one.
- No loading ahead of time. A track loads when you open the session, not before. Strava limits the number of requests for the whole application, all mushers together; each musher can load up to five new tracks per quarter of an hour.
- No track after disconnecting. Disconnecting Strava erases the tracks already loaded in that kennel. Reconnect Strava and they load again when you open them.
None of these is "for later": they are choices.
Three choices made against the obvious
A track that is yours, but that your team does not see. In MushMate, what concerns your dogs is shared with your kennel. The Strava track is the exception, on purpose: we would rather show you your own track, to you alone, than show it to nobody, or show it to everyone against Strava's rule.
The stops and the distance are Strava's. We could have recomputed them with our own rule, as we do for a GPX file. We kept the "stopped" signal Strava records point by point, and its distance rather than ours. The track thus tells the same story as the imported session: the same distance, and a time stopped that matches, as closely as possible, the moving time Strava provided.
One minute, and we say so. Hiding short stops without a word would have made the list easier to read, but it would have lied by omission. The threshold is one minute, it is written in the sentence, and what it leaves out is counted.