What is the Strava etiquette? If someone follows me in Strava, should I follow them?

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What is general Strava etiquette? I beat someone's course record and they followed me on Strava. Should I follow them too?

It varies. I follow some much stronger runners and sometimes they follow me back (just to be polite I guess). Some arch rivals who are only slightly faster than me completely ignore me even when I send them kudos all the time. I would follow the guy you mention though to keep an eye on him - he's probably busting a gut to get the time back.

Mostly I follow faster runners to give myself something to aim at.

The Scot wrote:

.......aaaa wrote:

What is general Strava etiquette? I beat someone's course record and they followed me on Strava. Should I follow them too?

It varies. I follow some much stronger runners and sometimes they follow me back (just to be polite I guess). Some arch rivals who are only slightly faster than me completely ignore me even when I send them kudos all the time. I would follow the guy you mention though to keep an eye on him - he's probably busting a gut to get the time back.

Mostly I follow faster runners to give myself something to aim at.

Follow who you want. I follow too many people because I almost always follow back and my feed has gotten really cluttered with people I don't know so I miss a lot of runs from friends that I do want to see runs from...

i only follow people i know, direct competitors or elite/pros. i've gotten called out in real life for not giving someone who follows me kudos back, ridiculous.

The only real Strava etiquette I think is that if you have a private profile, take someone's CR on a legit segment, and they follow request you, you have to accept their request, or more generally, if you are the leader on lots of segments (say more than a page), you should have a public profile.

Generally people who are faster in an area reciprocal follow just to get ideas for new routes, but it is not essential.

There are a couple people I have come across that follow people and wait for the reciprocal follow and then stop following the original person just to boost the numbers that follow them.

While I appreciate people who follow me, I dont follow them back unless I have met them and am actually interested in what they are up to.

I hate it when people have private profiles and crush the months climbing records or stuff that you know is shady. Its like the case of Magic Mike Rossi. Runner's know what runners can do. If a reasonably fast runner sneaks a 2:20k into their workout are they actually running?

I took a long mountain climb single track CR recently and the coolest part about it is that if anyone beats it, its legit. Mike Rossi will never take it.

Wait at least two days before following them back. That establishing your importance over them in the Strava pecking order, complementing your recent takedown of their segment crown.

Then, if they bike a lot and thus clutter your feed with a bunch of boring rides, feel free to unfollow. Again wait two days at least. Even if they do not cycle but sign up for a bunch of pointless challenges (can you complete a 10K run this month?) then feel free to unfollow immediately.

[quote]robq262 wrote:

I took a long mountain climb single track CR recently and the coolest part about it is that if anyone beats it, its legit. /quote]

Many MTBers have a secret motor in the stem.

Or they could use on of those online GPS cheating systems. Or simply bad data to start with. I've seen a lot of suspect records from people who use the Strava app on their phone to record their activity. I think even think most of those are intentional.

I hope something like that happens to this mountain single track guy.

You.ve obviously really done your research on all the cheating methods. I think you will take it. ;)

robq262 wrote:

You.ve obviously really done your research on all the cheating methods. I think you will take it. ;)

Link to the segment and it will be gone in 24 hours, I promise you that.

Legit or by your methods? I believe you are probably more talented on the keyboard than roads but please clarify.

100 percent legit.

My point was that its not passable by a mtn bike. Not that people like you dont have the ability to manipulate GPS.

Also, I wouldn't consider someone taking it by underhanded methods as something that "happening to me." Thats about them man, they can do what they want, I enjoyed going hard at it and getting a CR for it but someone stealing it by any method wont cramp my day.

How far are you and your takers willing to drive?

To the ends of the earth. Don't need to though, can do the whole thing from my laptop.

I ran over 5000 miles from my Mac book last year.

...typing with one hand the whole way. Dedication man.

Says the guy who lied about owning a Strava Segment crown. Put up the link or shut up fool.

Everyone on this site has pages of "crowns"

Post your phone number and we'll chat about it.

That's what I thought.

My profile is private and I don't upload everything to strava (dont like people knowing my whereabouts that much). I beat this persons record and they followed me, and I accepted so they'll see that me beating their course record was legit.