How do I fix a run that's wrongly tagged as a race — or wasn't tagged as one?

There are two directions this can go — a training run got wrongly flagged as a race, or a genuine race wasn’t picked up — and a couple of ways to fix either.

If the pipeline already flagged something race-like but wasn’t sure: check the Race Predictions (trend) chart. Confirmed races show as a solid dot; races the pipeline inferred from your effort (pace, heart rate — and power, if you run with a pod) but has no Strava tag or event name for show as a hollow ring, with the legend “inferred from effort — click a dot to confirm or fix.” Tap that dot twice (or hover and click on desktop) to open the Edit Metadata panel, pre-targeted at that run. You’ll see two buttons, [Yes — a race] and [Not a race] — pick one, then press Save. The dot updates after the next pipeline run, roughly 30 minutes.

There’s also a review_races.txt file written to your user_data/ Dropbox folder after each classification run — it lists runs that matched a race distance but were slower than predicted and had no Strava Race tag, so got classified as training. It’s for your reference only (it gets overwritten each run) — if you spot a genuine race in it, fix it the same way: via the hollow-dot workflow above, or by editing the activity’s Workout Type on Strava directly.

For direct correction on any run (not just the inferred ones): turn on :pencil: Edit mode near the top of your dashboard, and pencils appear next to editable items on race cards, Recent Runs, Top Race Performances, Personal Bests, achievements and milestones. Tap a pencil to open the edit modal, where you can promote a missed race or demote a false positive, along with surface, official distance, the parkrun flag, course difficulty, activity name, and shoe. Edits batch up — Save applies everything pending at once.

Either way, your edits always win over Strava going forward — if Strava’s own data changes later, your tag and name persist. Changes land on your dashboard in roughly 15–25 minutes.

If you don’t use Strava’s own race-tagging, this hollow-dot workflow is the recommended way to build up your race history over time — you don’t have to keep going back to Strava.

Full explanation: Editing Run Details and Race Predictions (trend) in the guide.