Keep your running data without a Strava subscription
Rurilab does not require a Strava subscription to use supported activity imports. Your options depend on your source platform, phone and beta build — not on a blanket claim that Strava has locked every runner out of their data.
Strava distinguishes developer API access from access to your own activities. Its official FAQ confirms that free users can still view and download their own data. Its developer documentation requires a subscription to create an API app. These are different conditions.
Your data doesn't have to route through Strava
Many watch platforms offer activity exports or supported transfers to a phone's health store. Available fields differ: a saved GPS route does not imply that heart rate, sleep or recovery data can also transfer. Check Rurilab's import options and limitations.
Three import routes to check for your beta build
1. Android Health Connect
On Android, supported source apps can write records into Health Connect. Rurilab needs your permission to read them. Fields depend on the source app, operating-system version, permissions and beta build; not every watch app writes all data.
2. Apple Health (iOS)
On iPhone, supported sources can share records through Apple Health. Routes, heart rate and other streams may have different permissions and coverage. Confirm iOS beta availability and the fields your source actually supplies.
3. Direct file import (GPX / TCX / FIT)
Where your platform offers an export, GPX, TCX and FIT files are an alternative to automatic sync. FIT and TCX may contain richer workout data; GPX often contains only a route. Rurilab cannot recover measured fields that are absent from the file.
Why this matters
Relying on a third-party middleman means your analysis breaks whenever that company changes its terms. Reading your data at the source keeps you in control — and keeps it free. That's the approach Rurilab is built on: your data, your account, no required Strava subscription for supported imports.