What are the cringiest Strava behaviors you see?

One thing that annoys me on Strava is when people do a workout with repeats and then they save each individual rep; example a kid I follow did an 8 by 1k workout, he had 10 activities on his feed that day, including warmup and cooldown. I think that's a ridiculous thing to do. Personally, on a workout day I have 3 activities. A warmup, the work out and the cool down. If it's a track workout or repeats I usually just manually make an activity on strava and delete the activity from my watch. I like this better than having a map of a track that says you ran at a random pace. The distance on the track is also not accurate on a gps watch I really do not get the point of saving it.

When they lean too much into the "just a workout" commentary after running a race (especially an obvious fun run). Reeks of insecurity and a worse look on actual fast runners.

"What are the cringiest Strava behaviors you see?"

Caring about what happens on Strava. That is the "cringiest" Strava behaviour I've seen. Nobody gives a sh*t what happens on there and you can mute people you don't want to see. Learn how to use the internet.

Pros love to use Strava as another social media platform with their little clever comments and boring photos. But the cringiest one of them has to be Josette Andrews who stopped posting when she got injured obviously because she wasn’t running - yet tries to keep her injury hush hush for months. As soon as she was called out on it by people she started randomly deleting past strava workouts and then went private. Nothing to see here LoL.

I saw a really hot guy on Strava who had some impressive workouts.

Hit him up and told him and we are now FWB.

Lots of pics of fit guys with no shirt?

Love it!

I use Strava to record my mileage and share my enjoyment of running with others.

But now that I know how much it infuriates the LRC haters, I like it even more!

This was a popular inside joke among the mountain bikers my brother used to ride with about ten years ago. I've never heard it outside of that group until now

I can't scroll Strava without seeing like 18 dick pics, wth is going on there is zero moderation

1) Joining every club imaginable.
2) Counting walks as runs for no other reason than to get your name on the club board.
3) Calling a workout “easy” and then hiding their HR since it would be obvious they are pushing 95%.
4) Not knowing how to use the lap button your your watch…..so you fill up everyone’s feed with 20 separate workouts.
5) Following a thousand people. Just...WHY?
6) Being so defensive about Strava that you call others ‘cringe’ because you are embarrassed that you do these behaviors.

1. Saying, "mileage really was," whatever the course's advertised distance was when literally everyone's GPS comes up 400m short and claiming a new 5k PR.

2. Posting photos of your race kit before a big race.

3. Posting photos of yourself after a big race lounging in your half tights or split shorts or buns. It's almost like Tinder when people do that, lol.

I have no problem calling these people out.

However when I do it - it's totally legit bc I've got the most expensive garmin.

I use Strava primarily for the segment searching feature. My town is mostly features around trails in the summer and snow sports in the winter, so I can get an idea of what area are popping for which sport types.

The only thing that drives me crazy about the app is all the metrics they try to provide. They are utterly useless. Especially considering most of us are running with wrist based HR.

I also make sure to only follow the homies so I don’t get worked up over what I see in my feed. Everyone gets 1 strike. You post something stupid or fake, bye bye

As are most of these, the cringe part is your creeping on her for months

Didn't you read the other thread regulars on LR don't like the term "kit's"

Pros use Strava to promote themselves and want people to check out their activities. Sorry but they don’t think it’s cringey they expect it.

Hiding your HR data so people won't see that the pace you're running is too fast.

That’s the whole point behind the “follow” on Strava, genius. Klecker workouts on Strava got a whole thread going. What’s cringey is you having to make that remark.

Bulge selfies are the worst. Bro, we get it. You just got the segment. No need to post bulge selfies after taking the title.