If for whatever reason your ride, run or walk gets divided up into two or more Strava “activities” you can easily combine them into a single event to view your combined time, distance and speed as a single activity.
1) Export your data as a TCX file from Strava (Skip this step if you already have TCX or GPX files available to upload)
- Open each of your activities one at a time
- Append /export_tcx to the end of the URL like this:
https://www.strava.com/activities/*YourActivity*/export_tcx - Your browser will download a file like this: Ride_Name.tcx
- Repeat for each Activity you want to combine
2) Combine your TCX files
- Visit this URL: http://gotoes.org/strava/Combine_GPX_TCX_FIT_Files.php
- Upload your TCX files
- Confirm activity parameters (Date, Location etc)
- Combine the files
- A single TCX file downloads
3) Delete your activities in Strava (or your new combined upload will fail as a duplicate)
- Load each of your affected Activities from the export steps
- Click – Actions (gear icon) and then Delete
4) Upload your combined TCX file
- https://www.strava.com/upload/select
- Click Upload
- Done!
References – Strava Support Links
7 thoughts on “Combine Strava GPX or TCX files”
Thanks for this. It worked for me.
It worked!
It wouldn’t work for me because I had a chunk of the run alreay in Strava. I ran 14 miles and my watch stopped at 8 and I had to restart. I wanted to paste the two runs together. Couldn’t do it because Strava recognized one part of the run…
@Terri Reh – see step 3, after exporting the part of the run in Strava – delete it.
Problem I keep getting is if there’s any sort of distance gap between the two files being joined Strava just adds it in and assumes I must have ran it at something silly like 1 min/mile pace which ruins the whole run and also shows up as a big spike. Any way to stop that happening? I’ve tried every setting but it always does it (tcx or gpx).
lost a QOM, because this didn’t work. Plus both my rides. Yeah me.
how to ensure strava/garmin only take moving time for the pace calculation as both file has a gap in time in between.