Zwift Run vs. Zwift Walk

Feature Requests
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Currently all Zwift Run activities are logged as a “run”, but I see a LOT of Zwifters just doing simple walks, myself included.

Would you consider please adding the option of categorizing our activity as a Virtual Walk activity instead of a Virtual Run activity? I notice even in Strava that even if you attempt to edit the activity to a “walk” that it won’t let you because of the file uploaded from Zwift and cannot be modified.

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It is possible to modify a Zwift workout on Strava, since it might take a while for ZHQ to make this a feature, here are the steps:

  1. Select the workout
  2. On the … menu, select “Export GPX”
  3. Copy and save the downloaded file (not needed, but I"m paranoid)
  4. Open the copied version of the GPX in a text editor
  5. Change the type from VirtualRun to Walk ( < type >Walk< /type > ) and save as GPX
  6. Go back to Strava, on the … menu select “Delete”
  7. After deleting, go to the “+” and upload the new file

It will now show up as a Walk (as far as I know, Strava does not have a “VirtualWalk”, attempting to set the type to that causes it to load as a “Workout”)

I added spaces in the “type” area to have them show up in this forum, the spaces will not be in your GPX file.

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Great stuff, Bryan, thanks for the intel! That just makes me do less walks and more actual runs on the treadmill and save the walks for outdoors.

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