Connecting your Strava or Garmin Connect account to your Wild Things dashboard means your trail runs and hikes can be automatically synced to your account, which means:

If you have both (often likely if you have a Garmin watch), it doesn't matter which you choose to connect to your Wild Things account. You can only connect one, however - this prevents duplicate activities.

Adding the name of any trail or peak to your activity description is only available with Strava.

When you first connect, we'll sync the last three months of activities from your Strava or Garmin account. This means you can still earn points on Wild Challenge leaderboards even if you join a challenge mid-way through.

💡 It might take a few hours for your historical activities to sync.

💡 This feature is available for VIP members.

1. Within your dashboard settings, head to the Integrations page here and you will see an orange Connect with Strava button and a blue Connect with Garmin Connect button.

2. Click the appropriate button for the integration you want, and you'll be temporarily taken to Strava or Garmin, to authorize Wild Things to connect. Leaving the tickboxes as they are preselected, then click the orange Authorize button (Strava) or blue Save and Agree buttons (Garmin).

💡 You may be asked to log into Strava or Garmin during this process.

💡 If connecting with Strava, the permission option to "Upload your activities from Wild Things to Strava" means we can add the details of the trail you ran or the peak you bagged into your activity description. This is optional.

3. You'll then return to your Wild Things dashboard. All done!

💡 Both free & premium Strava accounts work. Any activity recorded on Strava with a privacy control setting of "Private" will not be synced.