Every couple of months, a new wave of people celebrate San Francisco Giants legend Barry Bonds for something other than his illustrious baseball career: They love him for being a Strava monster.

For more than a decade now, Bonds has been a constant poster of his bike rides, workouts, golf rounds and more outdoor activities on the fitness tracking app. While Bonds has recently been posting more home workouts on the app, the activity he’s focused the most time on is cycling, logging a total of more than 2,100 rides since he picked up the sport in 2010.

His start in the sport lines up perfectly with Strava, the application founded in 2009 that allows people to track their workouts, post them on a social media-style feed and add friends to keep track of. The app has exploded since the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020, more than doubling its user base to what it now says is more than 135 million users. 

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With each ride, hundreds of fellow riders offer baseball’s home run........

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