Does your single Strava workout, ride, run or walk consist of multiple Strava activities? If so you can easily merge or combine the activities by exporting them as GPX or TCX files and combining them into a single activity with combined time, distance and speed.
Process Outline
- Your single Strava workout consists of two or more activities (you cannot join unrelated activities).
- Export the data from Strava that you wish to combine into one activity.
- Upload, Review and Combine the problem files on the GOTOES website.
- Confirm your downloaded GPX file.
- Delete the related activities in Strava (or your combined file will be flagged as a duplicate).
- Upload your new combined GPX file to Strava.
Steps to Combine or Merge Strava Activities
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 for – GOTOES Strava tools: http://gotoes.org/strava/Combine_GPX_TCX_FIT_Files.php
- Upload your TCX files.
- GOTOES will display all activity parameters
- Pick the file output type for output – GPX for Strava
- Chose the GPS type you used & Activity type – Google Pixel watch and Biking for me
- *Sending files to other apps – after step 5 GOTOES now has an option to send your combined file directly to Strava.
- Combine – Click the Button to Combine the files.
- Download – Your browser will download a single file in the format you chose – this is your complete ride.
3) Delete your activities in Strava – or your new combined TCX file will be flagged as a duplicate activity.
Before proceeding – confirm you have the TCX file from pervious steps, just in case!
- Load each of your affected Activities from the export steps.
- Click – Actions (gear icon) and then Delete.
4) Upload your combined GPX file to Strava
- Strava Upload – https://www.strava.com/upload/select
- Click Upload.
- Done – view your complete workout!
References – Strava Support Links
- How to export TCX files from Strava
- How to delete Strava activities
- How to upload files to Strava
- Strava Activities
12 thoughts on “Merge or Combine Strava Activities – GPX or TCX files”
This is a fantastic guide! I’ve been looking for an easy way to merge my Strava activities, and the step-by-step instructions with GPX and TCX files make it so much clearer. I appreciate the tips on using the different tools too. Thanks for sharing!
The gotoes.org site has been down for a few days :(
gotoes is back up and running now!
Hi – possibly a silly question but where do i find the downloaded file after 2 rides have been combined. I cannot see it in Strava or in my downloads
Hi Glyn, the combined file should download to your web browsers standard download location – most often the Downloads folder where you’ve checked.
To check Downloads for Google Chrome you can click the three dots by your profile/name at the top right. Or press Ctrl+J on a computer. This will show your download history. If not found, try again perhaps the download was canceled or interrupted.
Examples for Google Chrome: https://bestim.org/where-to-find-chrome-downloads.html
how to ensure strava/garmin only take moving time for the pace calculation as both file has a gap in time in between.
lost a QOM, because this didn’t work. Plus both my rides. Yeah me.
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).
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.
It worked!
Thanks for this. It worked for me.