I have a garmin and log all my miles through the garmin app. My watch is a very basic model which shows pace and after most runs I review the data but don't often go back to it. I see most of my running friends weekly and don't really care about their progress or training status but many of them insist I get strava.
What advantages does it have over garmin connect?
Absolutely nothing.
Except for maybe the joy of knowing some stalker might be out there tracking you on you regular route, biding his time...
I was giving likes and following persons and so for some time, but could not be bothered anymore, also I keep my runs private, so now the main feature I use, and which I find useful, is that it tracks your run and if you run it again you can compare the times and heartrate and such, and after awhile you have a lot of runs on the same course and you can go back to say april 2019 and see how you did the compared to now.
Strava is for stalking. So if you are not a stalker and do not want to be stalked, then there is no point in using Strava.
I'm like the second fastest runner in my town. And through Strava I can monitor how the fastest runner in my town is training and try to beat him in training in a attempt to increase my chances of beating him in local races. Also, there are some elite runners on Strava you can follow. Also, some of the people I beat in local races follow me, probably doing the same thought process I'm doing following that guy always beating me in local races. So it turns into a loop of trying to win on Strava. I know since joining Strava, this competition has improved my training, making it more consistent and has increased my weekly mileage.
letsrun basement dweller wrote:
I'm like the second fastest runner in my town. And through Strava I can monitor how the fastest runner in my town is training and try to beat him in training in a attempt to increase my chances of beating him in local races. Also, there are some elite runners on Strava you can follow. Also, some of the people I beat in local races follow me, probably doing the same thought process I'm doing following that guy always beating me in local races. So it turns into a loop of trying to win on Strava. I know since joining Strava, this competition has improved my training, making it more consistent and has increased my weekly mileage.
Same here but don’t share my double secret training
I think about the only thing it's really useful for is if you come up with a really great new route and want to tell someone else how to run it.
Peer pressure and guilt.
If I feel like skipping a run, I know all of my friends that run and are on Strava will know I skipped a run. That's enough to get me out the door when I'm on the fence.
SprintTriathlon wrote:
now the main feature I use, and which I find useful, is that it tracks your run and if you run it again you can compare the times and heartrate and such, and after awhile you have a lot of runs on the same course and you can go back to say april 2019 and see how you did the compared to now.
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This can be useful.
If you care about the social media element there is that, but otherwise your not missing much.
It allows you to confirm when you say you closed in 53.
No advantages other than the social aspect.
What are you missing
1) Injury through CR chasing
2) Passive aggressive kudo games
3) Pressure to give kudos to all your followers
4) Feeling guilty about uploading short double runs
5) Feeling inadequate by following more motivated runners
6) Not training to your current abilities
Don't you want to smash hill segments?
Letsrun is not the cool wrote:
Absolutely nothing.
Except for maybe the joy of knowing some stalker might be out there tracking you on you regular route, biding his time...
That’s what I was going to say, lol.
T-MAC100 wrote:
I have a garmin and log all my miles through the garmin app. My watch is a very basic model which shows pace and after most runs I review the data but don't often go back to it. I see most of my running friends weekly and don't really care about their progress or training status but many of them insist I get strava.
What advantages does it have over garmin connect?
“My watch is a very basic model....”
A GPS watch by definition is not a basic model.
A basic model would be one of those old Casios or a Timex. Start, Stop, Lap if you’re lucky. No GPS. I never had a GPS watch when I was running competitively.
Alan
Build up sweet heat maps to share with people, go for segment kom/qom honors, and other stuff with which to bore your friends and loved ones.
LoneStarXC wrote:
Letsrun is not the cool wrote:
Absolutely nothing.
Except for maybe the joy of knowing some stalker might be out there tracking you on you regular route, biding his time...
That’s what I was going to say, lol.
Y'all paranoid, if someone wants to get you, not having Strava will stop them.
Strava's on the decline. Everyone used to be on flyby's. Now you'll pass runners all the time who aren't on Strava.
Runningart2004 wrote:
T-MAC100 wrote:
I have a garmin and log all my miles through the garmin app. My watch is a very basic model which shows pace and after most runs I review the data but don't often go back to it. I see most of my running friends weekly and don't really care about their progress or training status but many of them insist I get strava.
What advantages does it have over garmin connect?
“My watch is a very basic model....”
A GPS watch by definition is not a basic model.
A basic model would be one of those old Casios or a Timex. Start, Stop, Lap if you’re lucky. No GPS. I never had a GPS watch when I was running competitively.
Alan
What I meant by basic waa that I don't have heart rate, vo2max, race prediction. I don't even use the lap button it has and sometimes adjust my target pace just to make it easier to calculate.
I did install strava tonight just to see but will probably get rid of it by the end of the weekend. I live in a small city and most of the segments are pretty soft.
T-MAC100 wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
“My watch is a very basic model....”
A GPS watch by definition is not a basic model.
A basic model would be one of those old Casios or a Timex. Start, Stop, Lap if you’re lucky. No GPS. I never had a GPS watch when I was running competitively.
Alan
What I meant by basic waa that I don't have heart rate, vo2max, race prediction. I don't even use the lap button it has and sometimes adjust my target pace just to make it easier to calculate.
I did install strava tonight just to see but will probably get rid of it by the end of the weekend. I live in a small city and most of the segments are pretty soft.
And you want to keep them soft?