Using your training and race recommendations.

Connect Strava first

Open My account, then Connections, and connect Strava. PodiumBase asks Strava for the permissions shown during authorization and returns you to your account when the connection succeeds.

If Strava is already connected but your recent activity looks stale, use the refresh control before disconnecting. Read Connecting Strava for connection and privacy details.

Open Your training

Go to My account → Your training. The page is private to your signed-in account and has three possible parts:

1. A private mirror of eight completed weeks, with a running-distance chart, weekly totals table, and training fields from your synced history.
2. Suggested race matches that need your confirmation.
3. Race recommendations based on your training profile and home region.

The chart covers completed Monday–Sunday weeks and excludes the current partial week. Week boundaries use your saved timezone when available; otherwise the page uses a timezone hint or a labelled UTC fallback. Distances and pace follow your saved units.

Open Weekly totals to read each week's distance, run count, moving time, and coverage. A synced zero means no valid running activity was found in that completed history as synced. Incomplete or Not yet known means coverage has not been confirmed; it is not a known zero. Strava permissions may exclude private activities, so these totals are not a complete record of all activity.

Choose Refresh from Strava to request an update, then reload Your training after the sync finishes. A completed empty history still shows its weekly table and refresh control. A Tagged hard effort comes from a race or workout tag in Strava; the page does not infer an easy-pace category.

If training permission is inactive, reconnect Strava before training can be shown. If the mirror is temporarily unavailable, choose Try again; that message does not mean the account disconnected.

Confirm a suggested race match

A suggested match means an activity appears to line up with a race; it is not yet treated as your confirmed result. Review the race and activity, then accept the match only when they refer to the same effort. Decline a suggestion that is a training run, a different event, or someone else's result.

Confirmation helps PodiumBase associate your own races and media. It does not publish private Strava activity details as a public training log.

Manage a private race link

Open Link a race to review your imported Strava activities. If an activity has a Possible race, review it and choose Link to this race only when it is the same effort. Otherwise, choose Find the race and search for the correct event.

A linked activity shows Linked to [race] · private. These Strava links stay in your private race history and do not appear on your public passport. Choose Unlink beside a linked race to remove that private association. Unlinking does not delete the imported Strava activity or change an official race result. You can find and link the race again later.

If the page reports that a link or suggestion changed, review the refreshed activities before acting again. If a request fails, the existing link stays visible so you can retry. Use Reload activities when the activity list cannot load, and Load more activities to reach older imported activities.

Read a recommendation

Recommendations can include a fit reason and an estimated finish. The estimate is a deterministic planning aid based on the available profile, not a promise, medical advice, or a substitute for the race's official result.

For a race using PodiumBase registration, a recommendation can show Registration closes with the organizer's event time zone. It shows a known event-level deadline, not a guarantee of remaining places or available tickets. External race listings and races without a known deadline do not get a guessed date.

When that deadline passes, the card shows Closed and View race opens the race page. If an organizer extends the deadline, reopen or reload Your training to see the current date. Recommendations for an event that is no longer publicly eligible are removed when the page reloads.

If recommendations could not load, choose Try again. That message does not mean your Strava account disconnected.

No recommendations usually means one of three things:

• Strava is not connected or has not refreshed.
• PodiumBase does not yet have enough training data.
• Your home region is missing, so nearby races cannot be selected.

Set or correct the region when prompted, refresh the connection, and check again later.