Creating an Strava Event is easy and anyone on Strava can do it. First you define what Stages will be ridden in the event and when they should be ridden (single day or multiple days). Then you invite your friends on Strava to join the event. You can also make the event public allowing anyone on Strava to join. A Stage is simply a Segment within Strava, e.g. a climb or sprint that is already defined in Strava. You can also provide event details like date, location, a description and even upload a photo.

What happens next is the cool part: when you use Strava Events, your GPS device turns into a “virtual” timing chip on event day. Strava recognizes when riders registered for the event have ridden the event’s segments on the specified day or days and automatically captures the results on the event’s page. Overall results are shown on the event’s Results tab. The “winner” of the event is the rider with the fastest cumulative time across all the stages (if you ride a stage multiple times we’ll count your best time).

Some additional highlights on Strava Events:

• We let you be creative in how you define the Stages; Each Stage can span any number of days or there can be multiple stages that take place on a single day of the event.
• We’ll be adding other features to Strava Events in the near future. We’re just getting started.
• Results are shown by gender for individual stages as well as for the overall event.
• You can see all events currently in Strava on the main Events page. The default view is to show all events but you can toggle to show events near your location.
• Users can join events they plan on participating in, or watch events they are interested in.
• When you ride an event’s stages, your results are posted both on your athlete home page as usual but also to the event page of any the event you are registered to. You don’t have to take an extra step to have a ride count for an event.
• Each event has a News tab allowing the event administrator to broadcast news and announcements about the event.
• If an event participant has not completed all the stages, their results will show up in the Partial tab.