Just a thought. I’ve noticed that other virtual riding platforms pull meters gained into the Strava activities.
Is this on the cards in future, considering that the workout videos already show a gradient when riding?
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Hi @Christiaan_KoS - thanks for the great suggestion! We do have this already on our wish list for future features - so I’ll add a vote to that particular feature on your behalf. Cheers!
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Thanks @Dame.Ellisa.Podemski!
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I was about to ask the same question and I found this answer, I’m looking forward to hearing some good news about it.
The great thing is - in the meantime, we can continue to train ourselves silly in the best training platform 
I’d imagine there’s a bit of work to do to be able to sort this fir every single video/novid (the wee slope thing we see is so that some workouts can connect to a Kickr Climb … which is another wee training advantage the ecosystem gives us).
But yeah … someone could be recruited to develop an elevation calculator based on watts and weight, and any videos that are tagged as ones like that, which then would change the speed and distance algorithm as well and so on and so forth. I suppose it was never needed as it’s been about the ability of the platform to give us the best training outcomes - but things change.
3.2w/kg about 1000m an hour (complete guess) … so could always add 1000m climbing manually to Strava for each hour at that effort level and take off some distance (say 2/3rd of distance). Then there’s be an equivalence for annual Strava stats.
Of course that was a 20 second in my head estimate.
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Any news about this? 
Id love that. Beeing a climber rider type I pick lots of workouts with gradient to give use to my kikr climb but then those climbs dont get reflected on my Strava numbers. 
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I would like it, too!
This has been discussed several times in other threads. The bottom line is that SYSTEM is not a sim/game. It’s a training program. It has power and cadence targets. There’s no way to say what the slope is from that. Even if we say somehow you decide what gear you’re in, or what gear you want to pretend you’re in (“virtual” gearing), different people will have different power to cadence ratios on the same activity, even if they’re both perfectly hitting their targets. So do you say they’re on different slopes?
Even in zwift, slope is a bit silly. What does it do? Mostly all it does is make your virtual speed slower and depend more on your power to weight ratio which impacts race dynamics. But how does virtual speed impact your training, vs just power and cadence? It increases resistance right? If you were doing 200 watts before the hill at 90rpm, if you hit the hill you’ll slow to 60 to hit 200 watts, so more pedal force right? But you can just gear down more, now you’re still doing 200 watts at 90 rpm and the hill changed nothing. Now zwift even has “virtual gears” so it will do that for you. So it “virtually” shifts to undo its virtual resistance, and nothing changed except the speed on screen.
Slope appeared in Suff briefly, and I’ve heard it still shows up if you’re using the Kickr Climb, but it doesn’t have much to do with what suff is. Even the “distance” is a bit arbitrary, but at least assuming zero slope and wind, it gives some measure of volume to compare to other rides that may not have power data.
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