We’ve got some big news for you all. And we truly believe every Advent runner will appreciate it — we’ve been calling for this for years (Help and Desk especially 😄). STRAVA is finally available in Czech! But that’s not even the biggest news of the day, because… 🎉🎉

For Advent Running, we’ve created a special version with a custom tweak we managed to negotiate just for us. So if you install STRAVA 8.0 – Advent Runners Edition 2026, you’ll no longer be giving and receiving those awkward generic kudos like everyone else… but Gingerbread Kudos instead!!!! 👍

At the same time, a new challenge will be added every month: Advent Pace 🏃‍♀️🏃 This tracks how many kilometers you manage to run in a month at a pace of 6:45 min/km. And after every run where you hit that pace, a little gingerbread icon will appear on the map 🤩

We’re absolutely thrilled we pulled this off — and we’re already open to ideas for further improvements. What about tweaking something like the Local Legend feature? We’d love to get inspired… 😉