I suppose there's only two things that bug me on strava for different reasons.
One is when people label a race as average or rubbish even though its decent. It comes across as tone death and offensive to slower runners who might be following them. Some people need to drop the ego.
Second is people who runs lots and lots of miles and keep underperforming. Brutal to watch.
I've been hiking and had a mountain biker yell "Strava" as they rode at me at full speed hoping I would get out of their way so they could PR. I didn't mind getting out of their way and they did give me enough warning to do so, but I thought it was pretty hilarious that that was all they yelled.
We used to always log warmups and cooldowns as separate workouts, even before strava. Now, with GPS watches, it makes even more sense. You're basically zeroing your watch before starting the actual workout. No way to do that without uploading multiple workouts to strava.
The cringiest behavior I've seen from people I run with is deleting a short or slow run to keep it from uploading to strava.
I don't get why some of you care about what other people do on strava.
I used to be a collegiate runner logging 80 mile weeks consistently before strava was big. Now 10 years later my former teammates probably see me: - Logging a 1.5 mile run. - Doing a 6 mile run with a 2 hour elapsed time. - Running 30 minute pace in the mountains. - Running 1 mile to a park, and then running 1 mile back home an hour later.
What they dont know is that: - I just ripped the bong right before that 1.5 mile run. Im fired up for a short fun run before getting back to my at home hobbies. - On that 6 mile run i spent 1 hour foraging magic mushrooms. - Im going 30 minute pace in the mountains because im sawing through 1-2 foot diameter logs with my 1/2 meter folding saw where they are blocking the trail. - I was working with a volunteer group cleaning up trash in the park.
I personally think Strava is great for keeping track of miles. In college, before GPS watches were a thing, we had to submit a physical weekly training log for our coach’s review and to me, that felt like homework and just never really got into writing everything down.
However, I think the thing that drives me most nuts is when people who clearly are on a bike or whatever else, fail to change their settings to reflect that.
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only one - I've seen that some people write their PRs in their 'profile bio' - meanwhile, there's already a part of the profile called 'all-time PRs.' I guess people put them in the bio so that it's more prominent and you see it right away.
The PRs I've seen on Strava are all wrong. It must be based on GPS-detected distance. I imagine if someone wanted to advertise their actual PRs they would have to be somewhere else. Additionally, I have at least 20 years of pre-Strava running activity that Strava PRs don't know about. The same is true for lots of people.
We used to always log warmups and cooldowns as separate workouts, even before strava. Now, with GPS watches, it makes even more sense. You're basically zeroing your watch before starting the actual workout. No way to do that without uploading multiple workouts to strava.
The first one is Strava's fault. They don't let people hide warm ups and cool downs from the feed.
Also, if you're wearing different shoes in a warm up and cool down then your actual workout, Strava won't let you log multiple shoes for a single run. It makes a difference for people tracking the mileage on their shoes.
I agree with the other 3, but the most annoying of all is 18-19 minute 5k runners labelling a 45-60 minute run at 4:20/km (sub-7/mile) as "easy run".
I basically agree with this, though one thing I’ve noticed from following several national class runners is that some guys whose performances are very similar train wildly differently. I follow 2 guys whose marathon PRs are within a few seconds of each other (both 2:15:xx). One hardly ever runs slower than 6:00/mile. The other seems to basically only run faster than 7:00/mile in workouts.
Anyone scrolling and judging others’ Stravas this much is the one overthinking Strava. Use it or don’t, but I promise everyone crying in this thread, you are the problem.
only one - I've seen that some people write their PRs in their 'profile bio' - meanwhile, there's already a part of the profile called 'all-time PRs.' I guess people put them in the bio so that it's more prominent and you see it right away.
The PRs I've seen on Strava are all wrong. It must be based on GPS-detected distance. I imagine if someone wanted to advertise their actual PRs they would have to be somewhere else. Additionally, I have at least 20 years of pre-Strava running activity that Strava PRs don't know about. The same is true for lots of people.
you're thinking of the "Best Efforts" section of the profile, which is indeed based on GPS because it uses runs that are logged on Strava. however, there is also another part of the profile (maybe it doesn't appear automatically) called "All-Time PRs," which you fill in manually - it doesn't use GPS/logged runs on Strava. however, you can attach links to race results for each PR. the point of that part of the profile is precisely to compensate for the issue you mentioned (in fact, that's why that section is called "Best Efforts" and not "PRs")
I suppose there's only two things that bug me on strava for different reasons.
One is when people label a race as average or rubbish even though its decent. It comes across as tone death and offensive to slower runners who might be following them. Some people need to drop the ego.
Second is people who runs lots and lots of miles and keep underperforming. Brutal to watch.
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