strava question

3 seperate

personally I just do one run for everything but to each their own

Just hit the lap button for each section. Don’t spam your followers feeds.

I would do 3 separate because it's 3 distinct runs. If it were 16 on the road where the first and last 3 are easy with 10 in the middle at tempo, then just a single run. Plus if you track shoe mileage, the you need separate runs.

Only separate if you change shoes so you can accurately record the mileage on each shoe.

No one's looking at your workout, lil bro. Your mom will give you kudos no matter what.

My answer has nothing to do with strava, but the proper way to use the GPS watch is to record the entire session as one activity. You use the lap button to separate parts of the workout. This is how the watches are designed to be used. Everything is much cleaner that way. And of course a strava profile is much cleaner with one activity instead of 3 or more. The worst people are those that record every rep as a separate activity. Do people not really understand what a happen button is or what it's for?

So do you keep the timer running during the 5 minutes it takes to change shoes and stretch and count it as a "lap"?

I usually do one big activity, but if I do have smaller ones for cooldown or warmup, I always mute the activity - that keeps it visible on your profile but doesn't go into the general feed to spam people. Highly recommend doing that so people aren't seeing your 2 mile runs all the time.

The way I do it (and my friends) is as a warm up, workout, cool down.

I see some pros that I follow do this also.

I guess it's to each his own.

If I did 12 x 400 you'd see a time for 4800 meters or 3 miles with a fast time. But I would explain that I did 12 x 400.

Great, now your friends can get spammed with 3 activities rather than one.

Why upload the WU and CD?

Literally nobody cares

No...I press "stop" until I'm ready and then select "resume" then "lap" when the first rep starts.

Sure do, why wouldn’t I? There is a Strava setting you can toggle which doesn’t calculate “still” time into your average pace if that bothers you, but really, what’s the big deal? Who are you trying to impress with fast workouts and runs? They don’t matter. All that counts is how fast you are on race day.

To those uploading as 3 separate runs on strava, would you tell someone you tripled for the day?

If I ever see someone split one run into three separate activities I will instantly unfollow them.