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No. People in deployed areas often run on runways. The Garnin watches aren’t transmitting and they aren’t connected to Strava.


Apparently a lot of people in the military upload their runs to strava. If there are a bunch of people uploading the same route, it will show up on the strava heatmap. This has previously caused secret locations to be revealed[1], but they are probably being more careful about this now.

1: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/strava-military-base...


At least half of Garmin watches are connected to Strava. They do transmit through Bluetooth, ANT+, and/or WiFi.


It's not a direct connection. You must log into your Garmin Connect account and configure it to push to Strava.




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