{"id":34419,"date":"2025-10-07T07:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/athletes-on-tiktok-are-freaking-out-about-the-strava-garmin-lawsuit-which-hit-just-before-big-fall-races\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:51:37","slug":"athletes-on-tiktok-are-freaking-out-about-the-strava-garmin-lawsuit-which-hit-just-before-big-fall-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/athletes-on-tiktok-are-freaking-out-about-the-strava-garmin-lawsuit-which-hit-just-before-big-fall-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes on TikTok are freaking out about the Strava-Garmin lawsuit, which hit just before big fall races"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68e496a55dbc4fd10daa4d77?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Detailed view of the Garmin power meter prior to the 7th Ladies Tour of Norway 2021.\"\/><figcaption>Strava and Garmin are clashing, and athletes are not happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Luc Claessen\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Athletes on TikTok are not happy about the court battle between Strava and Garmin.<\/li>\n<li>Strava filed a lawsuit against Garmin, accusing it of patent infringement.<\/li>\n<li>But this lawsuit comes ahead of some big marathon events, and may affect tracking data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strava and Garmin are having a fallout, and athletes on TikTok are not happy about &quot;mum and dad fighting.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Strava, a San Francisco-based fitness tracking app, filed a lawsuit against tech company Garmin in a Colorado court on September 30, accusing the latter of patent infringement and a breach of contract.<\/p>\n<p>Social media has not taken the fallout well. Athletes on TikTok have posted videos about how &quot;mum and dad are fighting,&quot; referring to how two of the biggest names in the fitness sphere have clashed, and how it might impact their user experience.<\/p>\n<p>Holly Brooks, an LA-based fitness influencer, joked that while the internet was invested in the Taylor Swift-Charlie XCX drama, from Swift&#039;s newly released album, &quot;there&#039;s other drama going on on the internet.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mum and Dad are fighting \u2014 Strava and Garmin have fallen out,&quot; she said in her video, which has been viewed more than half a million times as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>If they go through, changes to Garmin and Strava&#039;s partnerships will come at an inconvenient time. Some of the country&#039;s biggest races, such as the November New York City Marathon, are scheduled in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The turnout for these races is huge. The 2024 NYC marathon drew over 55,500 participants.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If, like me, you run with a Garmin but you track everything on Strava, you will no longer be able to do that,&quot; Brooks said. &quot;You&#039;ll be forced to use the Garmin app, because they&#039;re not going to connect anymore.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Strava and Garmin please kiss and make up,&quot; she added in the caption of her TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Another TikTok user, Rebecca, who posts videos of her runs, also commented on the Strava-Garmin dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When Garmin is going to stop uploading data to Strava on November 1st and that&#039;s literally the date of your marathon you&#039;ve been training for your big PR for,&quot; she wrote in the caption of her video, which has over 600,000 views as of press time.<\/p>\n<h2>Strava versus Garmin<\/h2>\n<p>In the lawsuit, Strava&#039;s lawyers said Garmin, which makes fitness watches and wearables, developed heatmap tracking services that rivaled its own, violating a 2015 &quot;Master Cooperation Agreement&quot; between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>In a Reddit post on October 2, Strava&#039;s product chief, Matt Salazar, also commented on Garmin&#039;s new guidelines, which note that apps using Garmin device-sourced data must display the tech company&#039;s logo clearly.<\/p>\n<p>He said Garmin had given Strava until November 1 to comply with its new guidelines, or risk &quot;stopping all Garmin activities from being uploaded to Strava.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We consider this blatant advertising. These new guidelines actively degrade your user experience on Strava,&quot; Salazar said in the Reddit post.<\/p>\n<p>Garmin, a Kansas-based corporation, saw its stock price rise by over 50% in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In the second quarter of 2025, it reported revenues of $1.81 billion, a 20% increase from the same period the year before. Of this, $605 million came from sales of fitness products.<\/p>\n<p>Strava, a private company, has 150 million users in more than 185 countries, per its website. It works on a freemium model, providing basic features for free and charging for advanced features like route suggestion and training plans.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Strava and Garmin did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strava and Garmin are clashing, and athletes are not happy about it. Luc Claessen\/Getty Images Athletes on TikTok are not happy about the court battle between Strava and Garmin. Strava filed a lawsuit against Garmin, accusing it of patent infringement. But this lawsuit comes ahead of some big marathon events, and may affect tracking data. 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