# 7 New Strava Automation Conditions for Athletes

> Get smarter automations with new conditions including Manual Entry, Flagged Activities, Perceived Exertion, Date Ranges, GPS Location tracking, and International Travel detection.

**Author:** Diego G | **Published:** 2025-10-16

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## What's New?

  We've just added **7 powerful new conditions** to Activity Craft that give you even more ways to automate your Strava activities. These conditions help you handle everything from manual entries to international adventures, and from GPS-tracked routes to your personal effort ratings.

  Now you can create automations that detect where you've been, how you logged your activity, and even how hard it felt—all without any technical knowledge required.

  ## The New Conditions

  ### 📝 Manual Entry

  Detect activities you entered manually into Strava (without a GPS device).

  **Perfect for:**
  - Gym sessions logged by hand
  - Indoor workouts without device tracking
  - Activities you forgot to record and entered later
  - Keeping manual entries organized separately

  **Example automation:**
  - Tag all manual entries as "Manual Log"
  - Add 📝 emoji to titles of manually logged activities
  - Mark manual entries as private automatically

  ### 🚩 Flagged Activity

  Identify activities that have been flagged by you or others on Strava (usually indicating potential issues or questionable data).

  **Perfect for:**
  - Reviewing activities with data problems
  - Automatically hiding flagged activities
  - Adding notes to explain why something was flagged

  **Example automation:**
  - Mark flagged activities as private
  - Add "⚠️ Review Required" to flagged activity titles
  - Remove flagged activities from your home feed

  ### 💪 Perceived Exertion

  Use your personal effort rating (1-10 scale) from Strava to create smart automations. This is especially useful when you don't have heart rate data but still want to track intensity.

  **The scale:**
  - **1-3**: Easy efforts
  - **4-6**: Moderate workouts
  - **7-9**: Hard sessions
  - **10**: Maximum effort

  **Perfect for:**
  - Celebrating intense workouts automatically
  - Tagging recovery vs. hard training days
  - Tracking effort patterns over time
  - Organizing workouts by intensity when heart rate data isn't available

  **Example automations:**
  - Add 🔥 emoji when perceived exertion is 8 or higher
  - Tag efforts of 7+ as "High Intensity"
  - Add "Recovery Day 😌" for perceived exertion of 3 or less
  - Celebrate max effort (10) with "Left It All Out There! 💯"

  ### 📅 Activity Date Range

  Create automations that only trigger during specific date ranges—perfect for training seasons, vacation periods, or annual challenges.

  **Two modes:**
  - **Specific dates with year**: One-time periods (e.g., "Summer 2025 training block")
  - **Recurring dates**: Repeating every year (e.g., "Every December holiday period")

  **Perfect for:**
  - Marathon training blocks
  - Summer/winter season tracking
  - Annual challenges (Strava challenges, personal goals)
  - Vacation or travel periods
  - Holiday season workouts

  **Example automations:**
  - Tag all activities during your marathon training period (recurring October-December)
  - Add "🎄 Holiday Miles" to December workouts
  - Mark vacation activities with special emoji during your summer trip dates
  - Celebrate activities during your birthday week

  ### 📍 Has Location Data

  Detect whether an activity has GPS coordinates or not.

  **Perfect for:**
  - Separating outdoor from indoor activities
  - Identifying activities tracked with GPS vs. manual entries
  - Organizing activities by tracking method

  **Example automations:**
  - Add "🏠 Indoor" to activities without GPS data
  - Tag GPS-tracked activities as "Outdoor Adventure"
  - Automatically assign treadmill to runs without location data

  ### 🗺️ Start & End Location + Route Passes Near

  Create location-based automations using specific places. Activity Craft can check:
  - **Start Location**: Where your activity began
  - **End Location**: Where it finished
  - **Route Passes Near**: If your route went near a specific location

  **Perfect for:**
  - Home vs. away workouts
  - Favorite routes and loops
  - Park or trail-specific activities
  - Commute detection
  - Tracking activities in different cities

  **Example automations:**
  - Tag activities starting from home as "From Home 🏡"
  - Add "River Trail 🌊" to runs passing near the riverside
  - Mark gym location activities as "Gym Session"
  - Track rides to different cycling destinations

  ### ✈️ Outside Home Country

  Automatically detect when you're training abroad—perfect for travelers and vacation workouts.

  > **Note:** This condition uses your home country from your Strava profile settings. If you haven't set your country in Strava, this condition won't work. You can update it in your Strava account settings.

  **Perfect for:**
  - International travel activities
  - Vacation workout memories
  - Business trip training
  - Celebrating activities in new places

  **Example automations:**
  - Add ✈️ emoji and country flag to international activities
  - Tag foreign workouts as "Traveling Strong"
  - Mark vacation activities with special descriptions
  - Celebrate running/cycling in new countries

  ## How to Use These Conditions

  Getting started is simple:

  1. **Go to your Automations** in Activity Craft
  2. **Create a new automation** or edit an existing one
  3. **Add a condition** and select one of these new options
  4. **Set your preferences** (Yes/No, dates, locations, effort level, etc.)
  5. **Choose your actions** (rename, add emojis, tag, assign gear, etc.)
  6. **Save and activate** - Your automation is ready!

  ## Ready to Try Them?

  These 7 new conditions are live right now in Activity Craft. Head over to your automations and start creating smarter, more personalized rules for your activities.

  Whether you're tracking effort without a heart rate monitor, organizing your marathon training block, celebrating international adventures, or just keeping your manual gym logs tidy—there's a condition here for you.

  Happy automating! 🚀

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