How do I mark a Ride as a Race

Hi,

I know you can select a given future ride and mark it as a race so that it shows as a red dot in the fitness tab. However, after I do a race (say a Zwift Race), how can I go and select it and mark it as a race so that it still shows as a red dot?

Thanks.
Al

That would be done in Stravaā€¦

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@david
Is there anyway that we can mark a virtual ride as a race? Unfortunately, Strava doesnt let you mark a Zwift Race as a Race, but i would like to keep track of the races in the Fitness and Activities with the red dot. Any way we can do that in this side?

I donā€™t think I can do that through the API (if it is possible its not documented). However you could try change the activity type to ā€œRideā€ in Intervals.icu and then go to Strava and see if you can make it a race, then change it back to ā€œVirtual Rideā€. It might keep the race setting.

I had the same problemā€¦ never find out how to ā€œfixā€ it :slight_smile:
if you find a way please report here :wink:

thanks!

Unfortunately, that didnā€™t work. In fact, changing the activity to a ride in Intervals.icu didnt seem to do anythingā€¦ it was back to virtual ride when I went back to the activities page.
I didnā€™t realize that this was an issue or part of the API from Strava.

Is it possible to create a separate drop down inside Intervals.icu to identify which activities you want to highlight in red in the Fitness page? For example, major big rides etc.
I know I can do a work around to this with the ā€œsick or notesā€ which do appear in the fitness page and Calendarā€¦

It turns out that Strava does accept changing the workout_type to race via the API however I donā€™t know if that will work for a VirtualRide. I will deploy the front-end change tonight and you can see if it works.

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The edit activity name dialog now has a race checkbox. See if that works. It works for my rides and my wifeā€™s runs. If it doesnā€™t I will make this an Intervals.icu specific field so at least Intervals.icu will have the correct info.

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This method isnā€™t working for me. still not showing up red on calendar or fitness chart

Could you please post a link to that activity so I can have a look. Tx.

https://intervals.icu/activities/4648269368

ok so I think I have found the issue. I go to edit the ride (under the ride title), and chose to categorise it as a race. when I press ok, and return to the calendar it does not appear red, and when I return to the ride and go to edit the name again the box is now unchecked.

Basically the website is failing to save/update the category of ride as a race.

I think that is because it is a ā€œVirtual rideā€. Basically it asks Strava to update the ride but accepts whatever comes back as ā€œthe truthā€. So if Strava doesnā€™t do it then your change will be undone.

ok thatā€™s frustrating as strava wonā€™t let me change from virtual ride to ride (Iā€™m guessing any zwift files get automatically reprocessed to virtual ride files).

so is there currently no way to classify zwift race files as races on intervals.icu?

I have just changed things so once an activity has been marked as a race on Intervals.icu it will stay that way even if Strava says it is not a race. Will deploy Wed AM (GMT+2).

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Hi David, this worked for me for a while but it reverted to the same behavior reported by Jimmy.
On virtual rides the Race tick is not saved so it doesnā€™t display red in the activities view.
I donā€™t really care if Strava accepts this back, if I can see it flagged as Race in Intervals is very good for me.
The last time I was able to flag a virtual activity as Race was on 15th April.
Example of recent activity that I canā€™t flag : Intervals.icu

Tx. I think I have sorted this out.

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But it doesnā€™t get transferred when importing an activity from strava. I had to manually mark activities as races again.

Or maybe the problem is that the activity is imported from strava before I have had time to mark it as a race there.

Yes that is what happens. Intervals.icu might fix it after a while. Safest is to change it in Intervals.icu and the change will be pushed to Strava.

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Is there a way to do this as a bulk operation? Say, for instance, that I search for all of my Zwift rides with ā€œStageā€ in the name, and select all of them. I canā€™t find the race box in any of the edit options.

Not exactly ā€˜bulkā€™ but thereā€™s a reasonable quick way of doing this. Add the ā€˜Raceā€™ column on the List view, filter as needed and check of the Race flag.

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