What are the cringiest Strava behaviors you see?

I turned my HR data off. It would give me readings like 130 for a 5k race and 180 for a 5 mile jog.

Strava is primarily an attention-seeking platform.

If you're editing your Strava video clips with theme music you're doing too much.

If you post more than three public activities in a day, you're doing too much. Make some of them private or "do not post to feed" or whatever.

What’s a Strava video clip?

I've actually found it to measure distance very well when I set it to track run

You people have way too much to talk about.

Stop judging people for everything and go run.

So what? So is lets run. So is any social media platform.

Wanna know one of the cringiest strava behaviours? Complaining about other strava profile behaviours.

Two female OAC runners who stopped posting anything as soon as people mentioned that their workouts are dismal. One was hiding the fact that she was injured in 2024. Too naive to realize everyone can see that on Strava. So she finally deleted everything and stopped posting. Cracks me up.

People who announce their targets after a race, never before. Often claiming a success when it's obvious they'd trained for better.
It's a bit like painting the bullseye after you've fired your arrow. I see you.

My biggest one: Good runners (sorry but idc about the hobby jogger down the road) who just title their workouts (real workouts, not just regular runs) something like "track workout" but do not include any other info. I can understand if it was a bad workout, you want to just move on from it, fine, but so many people do this for EVERY workout. What was the workout? You're going to make me go into the little pace graph and try to decipher how long and at appx what pace you ran (since you don't know how to use the split button)? And even if they say something like "10x400", and might even write about how it was a good workout or something, but don't include the splits or at least a range of splits. OR they do include the splits but don't include the rest. Basically... if you're going to log a workout, you should say what it was and give at least a brief description. "8xK in 3:10-3:00 with 1 minute rest" is fine. If you're logging workouts to impress other people, shouldn't you say what it is? and if you're just logging the workouts for yourself, don't you want to know what the workout was when you look back on it? I guess some people don't look back over their past training from time to time like I do...

Others include....

1. There's always a few random people who just like every single run you do within 5 minutes. do you live on strava??

2. When the gps obviously glitches, resulting in a straight line across city blocks that is somehow a super fast pace, and they say "ummmmm I DEFINITELY didn't run a 3 minute mile in here LOL" nobody is thinking little johnny 18:30 5K ran a 3 minute mile.

3. some random old guy who will comment something about your pace being super impressive or something because that would be an impressive run for a 60 year old but that's just a random tuesday for a 25 year old post collegiate guy.

4. very rare, but I have seen people who list their gps-based best efforts (or worse, now that strava has this as a feature... their PREDICTED race times!) as their PR's in their bio

5. this is less an issue with strava and more an issue with some people I follow... but the guys who are constantly injured but refuse to stop running, like every run is a "failed workout" or "cut short" and every run description is talking about how their hip is between 50-90% better, but never 100%. Bro just take 2-3 weeks off and do some PT.

Honestly! this post is the cringy part. Let people be

Wouldn’t that be “Weed Ate”? ;-)

Running used to be unpopular. Now it is full of egos. This woman here is insufferable - https://www.instagram.com/chloe_hamard

big YUCK

People who hide activities or don't upload them. I see a lot of race results on strava that don't make sense. They may have been running low mileage, but actually when you add in the missing gym or treadmill work, they were probably exercising every day.

1. Flexing heart rates

2.People faking their workouts and uploading stuff manually

3. Recording literally ANY kind of activity. Like bruh no one cares if you ran 0.1 miles to your neighbors house to take care of the chickens for a day

most of you guys are old heads, so you don't get to see as much of the high school side of Strava. It's pretty bad. A lot of fast kids compliment-baiting in clubs (I run 4:30 mile at 13, am I good?), random 7th grade girls commenting on all of your runs, people touting how hard they work but how little progress they make when they peaked at 19 mpw over winter, etc.