Personally I have my strava on private, and then make my workouts/long runs public if I would like to share them. No one cares about easy runs, 1 mile jog to the gym, warm ups, strides and cross training but I still log them to have a complete account of my training.
Man Moth wrote:
The first one is Strava's fault. They don't let people hide warm ups and cool downs from the feed.
They actually added that feature this year, at least as long as you upload your wu/cd as a separate activity/ies. They call it "mute activity", where the privacy settings stay however you set them (i.e. 'everyone' or 'followers'), and then you can additionally select the mute box to not publish a given activity to the home and club feeds.
my least fav strava stuff is when people care about what other people do on strava.... the platform is almost completely for show for 99% of runners .
Elliotb16 wrote:
A guy I follow weed eat’d his yard and recorded it as a workout
I've recorded yard work a few times. Once I shoveled and wheel barrowed a huge pile of wood chips to mulch around my house. Yes I know very exciting. I got 74 kudos.
This thread is toxic wrote:
but people will always try to make something out of it. It’s just toxic and unnecessary stress.
No, you should be public and simply confront retards like OP when they say something retarded.
Most cringe thing is having dozens of excuses for a bad race. "Oh i could've ran X if Y didn't happen". As another poster said - just admit you bombed and stop trying to save face for a few extra kudos. Extra cringe is bombing a race and only posting warm up and cooldown to pretend like the race didn't happen.
People that spell out their bathroom issues on Strava.
When you don't title your run and just call it "Morning Run" or "Afternoon Run" by default
Second this. I see folks running a certified race course and their official time is like 2-3’ slower than the “Strava time” and they post about their new PR citing the “Strava time” … whatever makes you feel better amigo!
Stubb's Sticky Sweet BBQ Sauce wrote:
I'll start-
a) Any activity of like 3 miles or less purely for ramping up weekly count like "run to track/park" "run back home" "warm up" "cool down"
b) Elapsed time is consistently like 30 minutes or more than running time, how are you not embarrassed or feel like you're wasting your time
c) People throwing in random 90+ mile weeks and then immediately going back down to 20 because they're way in over their head
d) uninteresting pictures like selfies and from your route
A) could be easily avoided by checking the box "don't publish to home" - something like that is not needed for your followers' home feed, but it's available if anyone cares to look it up.
Stubb\'s Sticky Sweet BBQ Sauce wrote:
I'll start-
a) Any activity of like 3 miles or less purely for ramping up weekly count like "run to track/park" "run back home" "warm up" "cool down"
b) Elapsed time is consistently like 30 minutes or more than running time, how are you not embarrassed or feel like you're wasting your time
c) People throwing in random 90+ mile weeks and then immediately going back down to 20 because they're way in over their head
d) uninteresting pictures like selfies and from your route
Your attitude is more cringey. However I do find it lame for amateurs to write multi-paragraph dissertations breaking down tempos and local 5ks. But whatever.
The cringiest thing is worrying about other people's individual runs or workouts. The amount of posts I see here about "look at total time vs moving time", x doesn't log junk miles, x doesn't log his doubles, x logs too many things, etc. is ridiculous. Strava should give you a general idea of how someone trains as well as ideas for places to run and workouts, thats it. I guarantee you almost everyone on this thread spends way too much time on strava, time they could be running.
Stubb\'s Sticky Sweet BBQ Sauce wrote:
I'll start-
a) Any activity of like 3 miles or less purely for ramping up weekly count like "run to track/park" "run back home" "warm up" "cool down"
b) Elapsed time is consistently like 30 minutes or more than running time, how are you not embarrassed or feel like you're wasting your time
c) People throwing in random 90+ mile weeks and then immediately going back down to 20 because they're way in over their head
d) uninteresting pictures like selfies and from your route
Anyone who uses Strava is cringe
Kvothe wrote:
The cringiest thing is worrying about other people's individual runs or workouts. The amount of posts I see here about "look at total time vs moving time", x doesn't log junk miles, x doesn't log his doubles, x logs too many things, etc. is ridiculous. Strava should give you a general idea of how someone trains as well as ideas for places to run and workouts, thats it. I guarantee you almost everyone on this thread spends way too much time on strava, time they could be running.
Fully agree. I look at Strava for 5 minutes after each run and otherwise never get on there. And I couldn't care less about things in the OP's complaint list.
Nobody has ever given me a hard time about any of the stuff mentioned here and I have never even bothered to notice it about others.
Stubb's Sticky Sweet BBQ Sauce wrote:
I'll start-
a) Any activity of like 3 miles or less purely for ramping up weekly count like "run to track/park" "run back home" "warm up" "cool down"
b) Elapsed time is consistently like 30 minutes or more than running time, how are you not embarrassed or feel like you're wasting your time
c) People throwing in random 90+ mile weeks and then immediately going back down to 20 because they're way in over their head
d) uninteresting pictures like selfies and from your route
Translation:
a.) People not worshiping OP as a superior being, as evidenced by their daring to post on Strava
The social aspect of Strava is so low engagement that it would take a lot to cause me real annoyance. I just scroll through my feed in like 2 mins after uploading a run and give kudos to vaguely worthy efforts.
Some people I follow I'm genuinely interested in how they're training, how they get on in races, how they feel about etc and others not so much. But at least it's something to ask about when I next see them
The only person I hid from my feed would post maybe 5-10 very short walks every single day, and honestly I'm not going to judge him on a personal level about it just cos he wants to keep track of absolutely everything. Another insists on uploading a selfie from every one of his runs, but as far as narcissistic behaviour goes, it's quite harmless
The idea of some random follower scrolling through scouring activities for social media faux pas is way more cringe than almost anything you could do on Strava, maybe besides posting edgy sht or being a creep
Hopefully someone from Strava is reading this and can add some "intelligence" to their app that can bundle wu/wo/cd into a single posting while excluding the wu/cd pace from the wo pace. Maybe add a additional metrics: wu distance, cd distance. Again all in a single posting.
If they need a programmer, I can do some contract work for them.
I don't know if it's cringy, but I've got a weird one. This guy last week joined our local running store Strava group. So he's local, but I don't know the guy personally. I noticed him because he logged nearly 200 miles last week. I looked up his history a bit thinking that was an outlier, and he's been running close to 200 miles for the last 6 months. He appears to be in the 50's, not fast at all, so this isn't a competitive thing.
But here's where it gets weird, most of his runs will be around a single block of a downtown area. So running like 8-10 miles 3 times a day basically in circles. There's usually a title or comment from him about having a "tough" day with work or something else similar. I did a little looking into him, and it's safe to say he's a little "off" from a social standpoint.
Now I'm not alarmed or anything, I don't think he's about to completely lose his mind and take out a healthcare CEO. But 200 miles a week in circles? I'm sorry, we're all a LITTLE crazy with our running at times, but this dude is on another level.
When people post BS treadmill workouts that are faster than anything they'd actually do on pavement... then feel the need to highlight the paces and their supreme fitness
Stubb's Sticky Sweet BBQ Sauce wrote:
I'll start-
a) Any activity of like 3 miles or less purely for ramping up weekly count like "run to track/park" "run back home" "warm up" "cool down"
b) Elapsed time is consistently like 30 minutes or more than running time, how are you not embarrassed or feel like you're wasting your time
c) People throwing in random 90+ mile weeks and then immediately going back down to 20 because they're way in over their head
d) uninteresting pictures like selfies and from your route
e) Giving AF what anyone does on Strava. Stop following them if you don't like it.