Sick and tired of runners biking on my Strava segments to get on the leaderboards!

The Scot wrote:

ddnbb wrote:

I do this! Whenever I get on a new leaderboard for a segment, I look at all the times that are faster than mine (men and women) and look at all of the associated activities. So many of them are clearly on a bike! Sustained pace of 3:15/mile? Nope... Flag, flag, flag.

I actually don't know what happens after I flag an activity. Of course, that person is instantly removed from the leaderboards for any segments from that activity -- but is the person notified and given an opportunity to just say "nope, I was running, I'm just really fast?" Or does someone from Strava vet it?

I've wondered that myself. You could track it by saving some of the activity numbers and checking back in a month or two to see if they show as Bike?

AFAIK they get s notification. They can then explain it. Typically if it's obviously tagged as the wrong activity (and they've set some world records in there) then I don't think they can say anything to get it back lol. But I think the onus is on them, not strava staff, to switch it to bike.

If it was flagged falsely they can prove if it was legit. Not sure how. Perhaps if you are elite and have records to back it up. Or if it wasn't fast but the flagging was just malicious.

Strava can also check the GPS data if you ask.

If someone is elite, they'll probably repost times close to the flagged times for segments they run regularly. For one off segments, like if they were on vacation, they probably won't care. Then again no one cares about strava prs when you line up to race.

I'm a driver and I'm sick and tired of helicopter pilots flying my segments to get on the leader board.

Do local elites use strava under aliases? There's one guy locally who regularly does runs under 5:00min/mile and hour runs at 5:30min/mile.

Good shit. Well played!

I'm a hobby jogger, and I'm sick and tired of people priding themselves on race results rather than Strava segments!

Bumping for awesomeness:

Tom Iceman Kazansky wrote:

One of the greatest one-ups of all time:

http://controversialtimes.com/funny/classic-military-sr-71-blackbird-pilots-troll-navy-pilot-and-civilian-aircraft-with-ground-speed-check/

Y'all just jealous of fast people.

-Uncico Coleman 😘

Racing in training encapsulated by competing on Strava is idiotic.

Tom Iceman Kazansky wrote:

One of the greatest one-ups of all time:

http://controversialtimes.com/funny/classic-military-sr-71-blackbird-pilots-troll-navy-pilot-and-civilian-aircraft-with-ground-speed-check/

Fantastic... thanks for sharing :-)

ukathleticcoach wrote:

Racing in training encapsulated by competing on Strava is idiotic.

You forgot to say hobby joggerish.

Tom Iceman Kazansky wrote:

One of the greatest one-ups of all time:

http://controversialtimes.com/funny/classic-military-sr-71-blackbird-pilots-troll-navy-pilot-and-civilian-aircraft-with-ground-speed-check/

Lmao thanks for sharing

True.