How to add Distance to Treadmill or Indoor workouts for Strava

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A number of users have approached me about the FIT or TCX files being produced by their treadmills or indoor trainers. Sometimes, the distance field AND the GPS position is absent, meaning that they receive a distance of 0 when uploading to Strava. If you have the GPS position (latitude/longitude from a map), Strava can calculate the distance. If both are missing, you need GOTOES to fix it. There are two solutions that I will discuss here:

Solution #1 to fixing distance in GPS files:

Step 1: Upload your file(s) here.
Step 2: If none of your GPS tracks have distance or position, you should see a link to add in the distance (see screenshot):

The section "This Indoor Workout has no Distance or Position" only appears if both are absent from your files.

Step 3: Make Sure that you have selected "TCX" or "FIT" as your "Output File Format. Distance can only be stored in one of those two fields.
Step 4: Click the big blue button at the bottom, and you will now have distance in your GPS file! You can optionally check the "Send to Strava" box to save yourself from having to upload the distance-edited file to Strava manually.

Solution #2 to fixing distance in GPS files:

This solution only works if your source file has speed (but not distance or position). This could happen with certain treadmills or indoor trainers.

Step 1: Upload your file(s) here.
Step 2: In the "Calculating Speed" field, please select "Use Speed" as shown below:

Select "Use Speed." The page will reload, and if your source file has speed (but not distance), your GPS file should now display distance which was calculated from the speed in your file.

Step 3: The page will reload, and if speed is present in the source GPS file, you should now see a distance checkbox in the "Streams" area of your file.
Step 4: Click the big blue button at the bottom, and you will now have distance in your GPS file! You can optionally check the "Send to Strava" box to save yourself from having to upload the distance-edited file to Strava manually.

Happy training indoors!!