Strava Year in Sport: when it comes, what it needs, and how to keep it

Year in Sport is Strava's end-of-year recap: a personalised set of scenes with your distance, your standout moments and a few of the social numbers, built to be shared from the app. It arrives in December, and it leaves.

What Strava says it is, and needs

From Strava's support article:

• It is an in-app experience — open the app, choose You, then the Progress tab, and the Year in Sport section sits at the top. It is not on strava.com and not on a computer.
• You need the latest version of the app and an active subscription.
• You need at least three activities in the year for a report to be generated.
• Scenes can be shared as images to Strava, messaging apps and social platforms.

And the line most people find out too late: the summary was unavailable as of 23 January 2026, with Strava saying to stay tuned for the 2027 experience. It is a window, not a page.

Strava also has a Month in Sport recap on the same principle, month by month.

The catch is not the subscription

It is the disappearance. The recap is the one Strava artefact people want to keep, and it is the one built to be looked at for a few weeks and then gone. A screenshot of a scene survives; the scene does not.

The data behind it is yours, and free

Every number in the recap comes from your own activities, and those are exportable on any plan. The bulk export gives you the whole year as files; `activities.csv` inside it is the spreadsheet version. Nothing about that requires a subscription — see what Strava lets you export for free.

Which means the year can be drawn again, from the source, in a form that does not expire. That is what the data prints are: The Year is every day of it in one grid, The Streak is the run of consecutive days, The Split is the balance between sports, The Clock is the hours you actually train. They read the same activities Strava does — through a connected account, or from the archive — and put the numbers on paper.

They are not a copy of Year in Sport, and they are not trying to be. Strava's recap is social and animated. A print is one sheet with the numbers that were true, made to be hung in January and still be there in June.

If you want both

Take the screenshots when the recap is live in December — Strava makes sharing the scenes easy, and that is the right use of it. Then export the year and make the version that stays. The order matters only in one way: the recap has a deadline in January, and the archive does not.