using Strava

Nothing similar as far as segments. The other details can be found anywhere else. But Strava is the go-to for anything "segment". I hate it and I love it. It's great when I am sick of running the same loop, I'll find a segment, run out to it and try and kill it. I hate it because sometimes people beat my segments... and I care. Which is dumb.

I like Strava as a training log but that's it, I never sabotage a workout to hit a good time on a segment.

MapMyRun and Garmin Connect both have segment like concepts but the UI isn't as polished as Strava's. MapMyRun has a million ads too.

Mapmyrun does totally suck.

I like it. Segments and the social aspect are fun, but the real value for me is the training log interface.

Too many dicks riding bikes and logging them as runs mess up the whole segment thing. then you get the people who drive around in cars and run the segment hard as the can then get back in the car and drive to the next one.

Pretty good for a training log though and good for stalking other peoples training

Butt Naked wrote:

Too many dicks riding bikes and logging them as runs mess up the whole segment thing. then you get the people who drive around in cars and run the segment hard as the can then get back in the car and drive to the next one.

Pretty good for a training log though and good for stalking other peoples training

Also there are some dick pilots who fly over segments to eclipse the car drivers.

Butt Naked wrote:

Too many dicks riding bikes and logging them as runs mess up the whole segment thing. then you get the people who drive around in cars and run the segment hard as the can then get back in the car and drive to the next one.

Pretty good for a training log though and good for stalking other peoples training

If you flag any suspicious segment times they're deleted instantly. I don't think a human even reviews flagged segments with impossible paces. From the leaderboard just click the linked date on the suspicious time, then on the next page there is a wrench icon on the left side that will let you flag the segment. Takes all of 15 seconds for it to update with the fake times removed.

P.B.R. wrote:

Butt Naked wrote:

Too many dicks riding bikes and logging them as runs mess up the whole segment thing. then you get the people who drive around in cars and run the segment hard as the can then get back in the car and drive to the next one.

Pretty good for a training log though and good for stalking other peoples training

If you flag any suspicious segment times they're deleted instantly. I don't think a human even reviews flagged segments with impossible paces. From the leaderboard just click the linked date on the suspicious time, then on the next page there is a wrench icon on the left side that will let you flag the segment. Takes all of 15 seconds for it to update with the fake times removed.

I rumbled yesterday that the guy who leads the board for a section of pavement near my house has spent the last two years playing five a side football then driving home and logging the entire thing as a run. I started flagging them all but got really fed up with it after a while. I've pegged him back to a 4.20 mile though. The guy in second is one of the top local runners but he doesn't run it at sub 5mm pace.

You guys are full of crap. I have over a hundred segment records around the world and no one has ever tried to purposefully ride a bike faster.

FYI, the worst region for mistaken uploads is Asia! Tons of Asians (perhaps a language thing) ride bikes and upload as runs. Not a big deal, just research some other runs and confirm if they have that ability or not. Simple as that.

Check out the guy at the top...

No-one said they had trouble figuring out whether the performances are real or not. We just don't want our running leaderboards screwed or have to do Strava's fairly obvious validation for them manually (eg if running speed is faster than WR for the segment distance don't let it be uploaded as a run etc).

400m at 4:47/mi pace in 1:13? Geez, just break it and take it over or if it's not legit just flag him but that seems possible for anyone.

I used it but I found that TrainingPeaks does a much better job at analyzing my data. Once you figure out TrainingPeaks you will never use anything else. TrainingPeaks has a ton of features but a lot of them are hard to find. But it's worth spending some time figuring out. It's a little on the expensive side but I think it's worth it.

dlk wrote:

400m at 4:47/mi pace in 1:13? Geez, just break it and take it over or if it's not legit just flag him but that seems possible for anyone.

Yeah but it was reading 53s 3.29/mile when I posted that (Neal Robertson is the legit runner I referred to). Even now the culprit Campbell Ramage is still showing a 4.29 mile PR

and I can't be arsed to do any more flagging.

I'm new to the whole Strava thing, I understand it's been around a while. I use my Garmin Connect account more than anything else. My running buddy suggested I look into Strava to view flybys and such. It's pretty cool in some ways, but I can see how people change from their normal training into a multi continent race to beat out other people's time or run more miles/km

Asia is a big place. Can you be more specific?

Butt Naked wrote:

Too many dicks riding bikes and logging them as runs mess up the whole segment thing. then you get the people who drive around in cars and run the segment hard as the can then get back in the car and drive to the next one.

Pretty good for a training log though and good for stalking other peoples training

Yeah, that one aspect is really dumb. I've seen plenty of "runs" that, while being slow bike rides (e.g. 10 miles at 15mph), are way faster than any human being has ever run and would be really easy to remove automatically

Please submit a help request at

- the more people who complain the more likely they are to fix it

uhh why have you guys assumed that people are intentionally trying to count their bike rides as runs??? I use a triathlete garmin and I have to manually change my rides cause Strava always counts them as runs.