trollism wrote:
Just don't be so insecure about it.
The hot runner girls aren't touching themselves in the bath because of some guy's 6:10 mile pace run or their impressive segment up Squirrelcock Lane, nor were they about to give you a booty call until they saw your sensible 10 miler.
They don't care. Nobody does.
This is the post of the day
Doeit wrote:
ohia wrote:
stupid question but how does strava even work? is it like a social media thing?
sounds like pokemon-go but for running adults...
For best results you should combine them on the same run. Be sure to start off with a full battery though.
One time I took two gyms from the yellow team and snipped a segment on the same run. That very night my wife decided she wanted to have my baby. I declined though. Had another segment I wanted to snipe the next day. Needed my rest.
This is runner-up post of the day
jesseriley wrote:
They tried to organize a Trans Canada last year on Strava. They did everything right except the actual running.
It’s a tool, in some cases a toy. But it can’t materially change the game because the need to move is something you’re born with. Enjoy it but have a healthy skepticism. Like those computer programs that teach you to dance without ever leaving your living room. It hasn’t created a generation of super-fit dancers, unfortunately.
You should see my dance moves. They are hip and they go with the beat. I post them on Strava.
Actually I have not seen that at all. On the contrary the people I follow even post their walk to the bakery in the morning
semenyagoat wrote:
Actually I have not seen that at all. On the contrary the people I follow even post their walk to the bakery in the morning
Every mile counts.
yeah all those races between 4th st and the Jones's driveway.
Sure.
And what athletes are we talking ? The pro joggers?
whats stopping someone from wrecking all the records just riding around on a moped with the app linked...?
are squandering it for daily likes on strava.
Maybe Strava should take the Instagram route, and ban Likes?
On the app, the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner, press that, press delete.
This is called a drive-by. Its how I win.
Free_the_thigh wrote:
Don’t forget Strava gives moving pace, not average pace. So the pace you see is often quicker than they were actually running.
On my run yesterday strava had me around 20 seconds a mile quicker than garmin a average pace did.
Also, how do you know people were racing their workouts like this before strava?
You people are relying too much on the GPS data being 100% accurate about what actually happened on your run. Try zooming in as close as possible to a chart of a run and look at how "smooth" the line you ran is. You might even find a point where you suddenly moved backwards at a spot while you were actually racing forward. To really see how poor the data is try running a zigzag course with star turns -- the results will be ugly.
Raw Data wrote:
Free_the_thigh wrote:
Don’t forget Strava gives moving pace, not average pace. So the pace you see is often quicker than they were actually running.
On my run yesterday strava had me around 20 seconds a mile quicker than garmin a average pace did.
Also, how do you know people were racing their workouts like this before strava?
You people are relying too much on the GPS data being 100% accurate about what actually happened on your run. Try zooming in as close as possible to a chart of a run and look at how "smooth" the line you ran is. You might even find a point where you suddenly moved backwards at a spot while you were actually racing forward. To really see how poor the data is try running a zigzag course with star turns -- the results will be ugly.
I have never seen my line go backwards.
Every service I've used has algorithms that smooth your line out.
I will concede that yes, if you make a concerted effort to run zig zags and star turns to 'prove' your GPS is not accurate you will succeed.
In normal use by a sane person, GPS is more than accurate enough to calculate distance run.
LateRunnerPhil wrote:
T Funke wrote:
... and re the Strava angle, yeah I enjoy that too. Every so often I'll chase down a CR which is usually achievable for me for a segment up to half a mile at ~ 4:40 pace for most of the segments in my area. I don't care about the "likes" per se but I do enjoy taking the CRs and I can get a lot more enjoyment out of that than waiting 12/16 weeks for one race...
I actually feel sorry for randomly taking some useless segments while I'm on a tempo run or Fartlek. The people who get the segments are usually quite bad at racing, but they dedicate an entire run (or multiple) just to get a segment in their area. For some it's their sole reason to be on Strava, they wanna show off some CRs to their friends.
They are essentially doing random time trials of random distances, and any decent runner knows when someone just got a KOM by looking at the associated run. Usually starts with 10 min warm-up, 10 min rest, then segment, then rest and CD. Sometimes 2 segments in one run if they are close.
Well whatever gets people active I guess..
Before we go any further we need to know how many people are on the leaderboards of said CR you're getting during a fartlek. If you live in the middle of nowhere and get CR beating all 12 people who have ever ran it then don't worry. But, if you're CR over 100, 200 people then yeah you can humblebrag.
Free_the_thigh wrote:
Don’t forget Strava gives moving pace, not average pace. So the pace you see is often quicker than they were actually running.
On my run yesterday strava had me around 20 seconds a mile quicker than garmin a average pace did.
Also, how do you know people were racing their workouts like this before strava?
Well most runners aren't on strava so I doubt it's ruining the sport.
But what is "moving pace"
LetsRun.com wrote:
Free_the_thigh wrote:
Don’t forget Strava gives moving pace, not average pace. So the pace you see is often quicker than they were actually running.
On my run yesterday strava had me around 20 seconds a mile quicker than garmin a average pace did.
Also, how do you know people were racing their workouts like this before strava?
Well most runners aren't on strava so I doubt it's ruining the sport.
But what is "moving pace"
If for example you stop for a minute on your easy run to tie your shoes, it subtracts that minute from your run and average pace is faster. For example, if you ran 10 k easy in 46 minutes, but stopped for a minute to tie your shoes, it would show up as a 45 minute run. And average pace would go from 4:36 km to 4:30 km.
ultra thon bro wrote:
people been training like idiots like that since before strava, now it is just more obvious/public.
This is correct.
trollism wrote:
Just don't be so insecure about it.
The hot runner girls aren't touching themselves in the bath because of some guy's 6:10 mile pace run or their impressive segment up Squirrelcock Lane, nor were they about to give you a booty call until they saw your sensible 10 miler.
They don't care. Nobody does.
ROFL!!!!
This is so true though.
race on RACE day wrote:
It's like all the runners now feel insecure about their fitness so they have to go prove it every run.
.
You nailed it bro.
You have no idea what you are talking about wrote:
Raw Data wrote:
You people are relying too much on the GPS data being 100% accurate about what actually happened on your run. Try zooming in as close as possible to a chart of a run and look at how "smooth" the line you ran is. You might even find a point where you suddenly moved backwards at a spot while you were actually racing forward. To really see how poor the data is try running a zigzag course with star turns -- the results will be ugly.
I have never seen my line go backwards.
Every service I've used has algorithms that smooth your line out.
I will concede that yes, if you make a concerted effort to run zig zags and star turns to 'prove' your GPS is not accurate you will succeed.
In normal use by a sane person, GPS is more than accurate enough to calculate distance run.
Ahem, no. The path can go backwards if you stop for a bit and the satellites (cell towers) try to triangulate your position again.
And no, GPS is not accurate enough to determine who owns the PR on a Strava "course."
BergLaufer wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:
Well most runners aren't on strava so I doubt it's ruining the sport.
But what is "moving pace"
If for example you stop for a minute on your easy run to tie your shoes, it subtracts that minute from your run and average pace is faster. For example, if you ran 10 k easy in 46 minutes, but stopped for a minute to tie your shoes, it would show up as a 45 minute run. And average pace would go from 4:36 km to 4:30 km.
Or, if you stopped because you couldn't hold your pace you get a free ride for the time you stopped. So, run really fast each kilometer, stop for a minute, run another kilometer. You'll set a PR!