Can someone explain exactly what Strava is doing to calculate elevation gain (see below)? Does "consistently" mean i need X data points in a row showing an elevation gain? Has someone been able to reverse engineer this thing?
Elevation data on Strava is smoothed to take out noise— we have a 'threshold' where climbing needs to occur consistently for more than 10 meters for activities without strong barometric data or two meters for an activity with barometric data before it is added to the total elevation gain.