I don't get it, I’m glad I never bought into it. I guess it can be motivating, but why should anybody care about my workouts?
I don't get it, I’m glad I never bought into it. I guess it can be motivating, but why should anybody care about my workouts?
I'm one of those people who does everything to the letter. I did sub 3 by doing 3 hour long runs at 8:30 pace. I never feel pressure to run faster. But strava is like a race that never ends. You get people doing 13 miles at 7:00 and they do it for attention. But they can't even run sub 40. That's why I don't like strava. Few actually care about training right and using logic, they just want attention. It's like all social media.
No. It's one of the best apps on my phone
Strava remorse wrote:
Starting to get burnt out with it, and thinking of either setting to private or disconnecting altogether. Anyone else feels this way?
Burnt out with a website? Lol get your life together. Strava is just social media for runners. I use it as a log and I love it. I don't always scroll through other people's runs but it's nice to get data on the athletes I coach.
The website is awesome.
go private wrote:
I'm one of those people who does everything to the letter. I did sub 3 by doing 3 hour long runs at 8:30 pace. I never feel pressure to run faster. But strava is like a race that never ends. You get people doing 13 miles at 7:00 and they do it for attention. But they can't even run sub 40. That's why I don't like strava. Few actually care about training right and using logic, they just want attention. It's like all social media.
You're projecting. Most people who are serious runners have a healthy relationship with the app.
Yup yup wrote:
I can't stand idiots who drive out of town to the start of segments to take down my easy run CR's because they are not fit enough to be able to run the whole loop. There's one guy in my town who does this all the time and writes the run down as easy despite there been a 15 minute difference between elapsed and moving time and the flybys showing his ugly mug paused just after the segments end.
Dude, you are driving out to 1.5 mile segments that I done on 20+ mile runs and you still can't beat them. Time to grow up.
If you are an anyway average competitive runner in a town full of joggers, it's even worse as there seems to be a passive aggressive contempt towards you for holding CR's. The whole world is gone crazy.
This butt hurt dude is the real reason people get upset about Strava.
If you're upset about losing your segments, then run faster or shut up.
Yup yup wrote:
I can't stand idiots who drive out of town to the start of segments to take down my easy run CR's because they are not fit enough to be able to run the whole loop. There's one guy in my town who does this all the time and writes the run down as easy despite there been a 15 minute difference between elapsed and moving time and the flybys showing his ugly mug paused just after the segments end.
Dude, you are driving out to 1.5 mile segments that I done on 20+ mile runs and you still can't beat them. Time to grow up.
If you are an anyway average competitive runner in a town full of joggers, it's even worse as there seems to be a passive aggressive contempt towards you for holding CR's. The whole world is gone crazy.
Don't know why this guy got downvoted. Running a strava segment just to take a "crown" is pathetic.
I wish I'd never joined this thread.
Is it rude to offer training advice on strava?
One of my followers puts in a hell of a shift, making sure every mile is under 8 minutes and they do a 20 miler every weekend (they are training for the marathon). Last time they ran 3:20 and their training is a carbon copy again, even though they want to go much faster. It's hard not to say anything...
go private wrote:
I'm one of those people who does everything to the letter. I did sub 3 by doing 3 hour long runs at 8:30 pace. I never feel pressure to run faster. But strava is like a race that never ends. You get people doing 13 miles at 7:00 and they do it for attention. But they can't even run sub 40. That's why I don't like strava. Few actually care about training right and using logic, they just want attention. It's like all social media.
Strava is full of annoying people like that.
I had to quit because I was comparing myself to others. I remember doing a really good workout one morning then feeling deflated after browsing strava. Total mood kill. I prefer to just focus on myself. The downside is I can't connect with the local running community if I'm not on strava.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year