Just heard that Strava is jacking their subscription prices up considerably depending on country you live in however have not communicated this to their global members. @david If I was to cancel my Strava subscription due to the sneeky way they are operating would Intervals still work pulling my data from Garmin only?
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Strava is free to track activities, so nothing changesâŚ
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Looks like Iâve been paying Strava for many years for features that I donât need or use but back to my original question @david If I cancel my Strava subscription will Intervals still be able to pull data from Garmin Connect?
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Yes. (and min words to reply is 5 words, so these are filler words)
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What does Strava has with Garmin Connect? 
Garmin Connect and Strava are separate connections/integrations, they are separate services and they donât depend on each other in any way.
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Strava still integrates with Intervals with the free account. As long as you donât delete your account and keep the connection active, the activities will still upload here.
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Thanks but if I was to delete my Strava account, it would appear that all the same data would upload to Intervals from my Garmin Connect account. Is that right?
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My two cents here. Why does anyone need Strava account connected to intervals.icu having Garmin connect?
I only think it is needed for altitude correction in case your watch does not have barometer. Anyway, free account is good for this.
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If you upload from both, Garmin takes preference. Thatâs how my setup is currently. If you delete Strava, then Garmin will continue doing what you need.
The reason (for me) is redundancy; if the battery on my (2016) Garmin 735XT dies before the end of long ride (>5 hours), I have a backup in my Lezyne.
I don´t have Strava but for a lot of people, Strava is the way to go to sync non-Garmin data.
Second thing is activity naming.
If all devices/apps were able to upload automatically to dropbox, Intervals only would do the job for me.
So basicaly Iâm using Garmin Connect only as a hub to get my cycling data uploaded automatically. I have Coros watch for running and upload manually to dropbox, then auto sync to Intervals.
For cycling (my main sport), I start the acticity on both my Garmin Edge and my Coros watch for redundancy but I never go through the hassle of manually uploading running to Garmin or cycling to Coros. Both have some sort of training center to follow up on fitness/fatigue, which I tried/tested in the beginning but I donât like their methodology.
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If you delete your strava account, their T&C states that all workout data which any 3rd party sites which pulls from Strava will need to also delete those same data in those 3rd party sites.
so, if you delete strava, all your strava history data in intervals is supposed to be deleted (intervals.icu should delete them automatically). Which wouldnât be an issue if you also have Garmin Connect data synced here. (unless of course youâre not doing this thenâŚ)
which is what @Gerald stated - if you donât delete your (free) account then nothing changes.
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But he could retrospectively sync all his garmin data, right?
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Iâve turned off âDownload Activitiesâ from Strava in Intervals.icu Settings and will see if there is any impact with the activity upload from Garmin Connect only on my data. Iâm not expecting any and will eventually cancel my Strava subscription if all keeps working.
As far as Intervals.icu is concerned there isnât any difference between free Strava users and premium users. Strava doesnât currently limit API access for free users.
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If I was to fully cancel my Strava subscription (not even a free subscription), Garmin Connect can still provide all the activity data to Intervals? Is that right?
yes⌠(again⌠these are filler words)
Edit: In fact, it does more as strava strips out some of the data as it sends it along⌠things like L/R Power Balance for one.
And youâll also save david some of his precious API calls limits from Strava. (My myself, my app, has only 1000 API calls and Strava does not entertain ANY request for increases anymore)
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A reply to this thread will only be accepted as a valid post if the post had at least 5 words in it. He only needed one word (âyesâ) to answer your question but had to add âfillerâ words to make up the 5 word minimum. And just to reiterate what others have said - Garmin and Strava have nothing to do with one another. They are entirely different services and so are their integrations with Intervals.
However - If you delete your Strava account, any activities on Strava that are not also on Garmin Connect will be removed from Intervals.icu.
As it happens Iâve been adding all old data back to 2012 to Intervals. I had data on each of TP, Strava and Garmin Connect. I added all that data via manual upload to Intervals (ensuring post the upload that only one copy of each activity was on Intervals) and then downloaded the fit files from Intervals. Now I have a zip file for each year with all activities from each year.
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Thanks for explaining filler words. Got it. 
All my Activities on Intervals are from both GC & Strava (mirror of each other) so cancelling my Strava subscription shouldnât affect data in my Intervals account.
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Strava new price increase ? Thatâs GOOOOOODâŚfor RideWithGPS !!! 
Most of my rides are on RideWithGPS (I synchronize them with tapiriik when the various apps I use donât automatically send my rides to the different services).
- we have intervals.icu, the best multi-tool to analyze our rides
- we have RideWithGps, the best app to plan our routes, with navigation directions, it also manages the segments
The only part I would miss from Strava, if they want to stop their free plan, is the social side (though Iâm not that much of a social guy). Who really needs Strava ? 
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