What is strava to you?

also i got my segment record demolished bc someone went segment hunting. He even took the segment on my own block. Kinda pissed me off after i saw all his other runs were at like 10:30 pace.

I don't use it. I think it's dangerous for females to post their running route online. Think about how many creepy people out there can leverage your strava info to stalk you. I have a few friends that scroll through their strava feeds like it's Instagram or twitter which is so stupid. There are better things I can do with my time.

Hejendo76 wrote:

also i got my segment record demolished bc someone went segment hunting. He even took the segment on my own block. Kinda pissed me off after i saw all his other runs were at like 10:30 pace.

Nothing wrong with that. You need to defend your home turf.

I resigned as moderator of a Facebook group because I got sick of HAVING to read through posts, mostly from the same people, telling us how many planks they had done, how far they had walked and run, always with a selfie or two to liven things up.

Strava gave me inaccurate mileages three times on the trot so I went to Runkeeper and synced it all to Smashrun, which I can recommend for record keeping.

I think I might manage a sub one hour 10K this year, I'm 73, so if I take things seriously I take heed of my performance.

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I upload my bike segments as runs so actual fast runners go home devastated.

15 minute 5k? Nice job, you're amazing. I covered the segment w/unlimited sub 3:00 miles, uphill. Your welcome

You're a menace to society. I bet you also torture small animals in your free time.

Sadly, Strava is poison if you are in a high school or college team where you're comparing and critiquing teammates and competitors training. Genuinely tore my team apart with the passive aggressive attitude it generated the urge to "one up" each other.

However, after graduating I have started to find it fun. Segments are kind of fun if you don't take them too seriously. The data that app provides on cadence, elevation, etc. is great.

collegerunner6969 wrote:

I have a few friends that scroll through their strava feeds like it's Instagram or twitter which is so stupid.

Why is scrolling strava worse than twitter/instagram? At least on strava I know everyone shares a common interest with me and the content is all exercise/sport related

I used Strava off and on as a training log. really it's easier just to use a notebook. I guess it could be use all to find good local trails if you move somewhere new.

Free training log with gps and a cool segment feature that encourages fun and light competition in a sport where competition is hard to find and largely limited to people who are "already fast". If you let stupid people who use it bother you then maybe you should spend less time paying attention to stupid people. There is a tab for people you're following and one for just your own runs, FYI

I like strava but it makes me paranoid. I have club members on there and there is one guy in particular who will give me kudos for almost everything, including workouts, but not races. I have got some very good results (for our club standards at least) but I still never got kudos off him. It is like some people are happy to share likes but once you are faster than them they don't want to know.

Never used it. I run with the same amount of tech I used in 1999, which is a watch. Sometimes I run without even a watch.

Just a training log. Don't give a crap about segments or challenges or any of that.

I enjoy it. I keep all my data private, have zero followers and do not follow anyone. Yes, it's good for a training log and I also like snooping around and seeing what local runners around me are doing.

The segments crack me up. There's a guy near me who is a 70ish minute 10 miler and he's on a bunch of leaderboards having gone 4:40 pace. He'll jog to the segment, go all out for a 1-2 minute segment, then jog home. He seems to hit all of the short segments within a 2 mile radius.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels good when they accumulate a lot of trophies after a workout. It's just fun to check it out after a really hard effort. I time trialed a 10k a couple of months ago and earned 14 trophies whereas I usually only get 3 or so on a good day. Meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but a good feeling nevertheless.

This tread reminded me that I had two ideas for fun segments that I want to make. Wish there was more active runners and more segments where I live, its so much fun!

There's a pretty popular 0.5mi segment near me, CR @ 2:07 . I was an 800 runner in high school @ 2:02, didn't run in college. I started running again after college, I've mostly done training for 10K - HM. I really want to train for the 800 again, but since there are no races for me to enter I want to train for a goal time on that segment. Cringe or nah? This thread makes me feel like a moron for wanting to do this

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I'm the slow runner you describe. I didn't know a Strava was only supposed to be for elitists. Me and my Strava friends support and inspire each other. It's generally all positivity and it makes us all better runners. Some of us are fast, some of us are not as fast. You should probably delete the app if it's distressing you. Some of us enjoy it and find it helpful.

Why not let strava do all of the work of keeping a log? Some prefer keeping a pen and paper log.. I totally get that. But for me I just let strava do the work.

Not cringe at all! Whatever gives you motivation. When pro runners can get motivated by an AR, your little segment is just an other variant of that same type of motivation. If it makes you train better its great.