The running community has been caught in the middle of a bitter legal row between the twin titans of athletic technology.

Strava, the app widely known as the Instagram for exercise, is suing rival platform Garmin for allegedly copying its features, in a dispute that one runner on TikTok summed up as being “like Mom and Dad fighting”.

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Strava is a fitness tracking app with social features that allow users to record their times, race against others, find popular routes for runs or cycle rides, and share their progress. “Any tech-wearing athlete pushing themselves to the absolute limit just to get a ‘Local Legend’ wreath” on the app will “likely attest” that “if it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen”, said CBC .

Garmin, meanwhile, specialises in GPS-enabled device

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