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First steps with PeakLine

This page walks you through your first ten minutes with PeakLine: connecting Strava, taking a tour of the dashboard, and configuring the settings that matter most.

1. Connect your Strava account

Connecting Strava unlocks the full feature set: activity sync, full analysis, gear tracking, and auto-generated reports. It takes about thirty seconds.

  1. Open thepeakline.com and click Connect with Strava.
  2. You'll be redirected to Strava's official authorization page. PeakLine never sees your password — you enter it on strava.com, not on us.
  3. Strava asks you to approve a small set of read scopes (your activities, your profile). We request the minimum needed for analysis.
  4. After approving, you'll land back on PeakLine, signed in.

Don't want to connect Strava yet?

You can register with email instead. That gives you the GPX Fixer, the Route Planner, local file analysis, and a few other tools without any third-party connection. See Account tiers for what each level includes.

Revoking access later

You can disconnect PeakLine at any time from Strava's Authorized Apps page. When you do, PeakLine stops syncing immediately and the access token is invalidated.

2. Tour the dashboard

The dashboard is your home base. The first time you arrive, PeakLine pulls your latest 30 activities from Strava so the page isn't empty.

What you'll see:

  • Recent activities — newest first, with PeakLine Score, distance, elevation, and a small terrain badge.
  • Stress Points trend — a 7-day rolling sum of training load, so you can spot overtraining before your legs do.
  • Quick tools — one-click links to Route Planner, Segment Hunter, GPX Fixer, and Gear.
  • Streak counter — how many consecutive days you've recorded an activity.

Click any activity to open its detail page, where you'll find the full analysis: zones, climbs, weather, and a downloadable GPX.

3. Configure the things that actually matter

A handful of settings make every later analysis more accurate. We recommend doing these once, today.

FTP and LTHR

In Settings → Training zones, enter:

  • FTP (Functional Threshold Power, in watts) — used for power zones, IF, NP, and TSS.
  • LTHR or Max HR (heart rate, in bpm) — used for HR zones and TRIMP.

If you don't know your FTP, an honest starting estimate is 75% of the highest 20-minute average power you've held in the last three months. You can re-test and update it any time.

The default zones aren't bad — they're just generic

PeakLine ships with a Coggan 7-zone model and 5-zone HR model. They work out of the box, but a personalized FTP/LTHR makes Stress Points and zone time meaningful instead of approximate.

In Settings → Integrations, connect your Telegram. This:

  • Gets you into the Secret Club channel.
  • Enables push notifications for new achievements, challenge progress, and weekly summaries.
  • Lets you upload a GPX directly from Telegram and get back an analyzed report.

Auto-generated activity descriptions

In Settings → Strava, toggle Auto-update activity descriptions. Once on, PeakLine will append a compact report (weather, HR zone distribution, wind, AQI, PeakLine Score) to every new activity you upload. You can choose a compact one-liner or a detailed multi-line format. See Activity analysis overview for what gets included.

Language

PeakLine ships in English, Russian, German, French, Slovak, and Ukrainian. The site auto-detects from your browser; change it any time from the language switcher in the footer.

4. Try one of the standalone tools

If you only want to dip your toe in:

  • Drop a GPX into the GPX Fixer to clean up teleports and elevation spikes — no Strava needed.
  • Open the Route Planner and sketch a route, then export the GPX to your Garmin.
  • Paste a Strava segment URL into Segment Analysis to see the gradient profile and difficulty breakdown.

What's next

  • Understand the scoring — read PeakLine Score and Stress Points so the numbers on your dashboard make sense.
  • Plan a ride — use the Route Planner with on-route weather forecast.
  • Track your bike — set up your bike or shoes in Gear tracking to get component wear alerts.

Have fun out there.