If It Becomes Illegal to Run Outside Should I Suspend Strava Uploads?

lol I was thinking the same thing. But I doubt it'll ever get to that in my area as I'm in relatively rural PA. but if it does I'll just backlog all my strava posts until this blows over

You can set it to private so nobody can see it. But the best would be to not upload it at all and write with the hands the results given by the watch.

If they are willing to get access to Strava private activity in order to check up on people, I'm pretty sure they would be tracking people's GSP.

Coevett wrote:

If they are willing to get access to Strava private activity in order to check up on people, I'm pretty sure they would be tracking people's GSP.

I think you like to play scaremongering. GPS data are irrelevent. If you are scared like a kid, don't start your GPS at your home.

Baba Yaga wrote:

Coevett wrote:

If they are willing to get access to Strava private activity in order to check up on people, I'm pretty sure they would be tracking people's GSP.

I think you like to play scaremongering. GPS data are irrelevent. If you are scared like a kid, don't start your GPS at your home.

Calm down, I'm just pointing out there's not much difference between the Police hacking into Strava accounts or issuing demands for access and checking people's GPS movements. The latter would be more likely as not all runners/runners breaking quarantine rules use strava.

Publicly posting Strava data might be silly because there's snitches out there, but you claimed that it would be best to not upload to Strava at all and just write down your GPS data.

Coevett wrote:

Baba Yaga wrote:

I think you like to play scaremongering. GPS data are irrelevent. If you are scared like a kid, don't start your GPS at your home.

Calm down, I'm just pointing out there's not much difference between the Police hacking into Strava accounts or issuing demands for access and checking people's GPS movements. The latter would be more likely as not all runners/runners breaking quarantine rules use strava.

Publicly posting Strava data might be silly because there's snitches out there, but you claimed that it would be best to not upload to Strava at all and just write down your GPS data.

There are probably snitches but I seriously doubt that the police will lose time listening to them, they have other things to do. A jump in home and stores burglary has been reported since a lot of them have been abandonned.

Anyway, taking simple precautions is easy and avoiding police control is not that hard, just stay vigilent and turn to an other direction if there is a suspect car. Be ready to cut in the forest, in fields, and where cars can't go. Police won't run at you, at least in France, they are in no shape to do this and won't bother.

Coevett wrote:

If they are willing to get access to Strava private activity in order to check up on people, I'm pretty sure they would be tracking people's GSP.

What does Georges St. Pierre have to do with this?

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Coevett wrote:

If they are willing to get access to Strava private activity in order to check up on people, I'm pretty sure they would be tracking people's GSP.

What does Georges St. Pierre have to do with this?

xD

I would run by the local police station every day. Remember, police are people. If you have a relationship with them and your community you can do what you want. For example, I back up to a State Park, which is supposedly "closed." The Ranger lets me run every day since he knows I'm a competitive runner. Relationships.

just say you're sorry and apologize so much for everything, then keep running

It took them long enough to catch on that military personnel were giving up secret military base location on Strava a couple years ago. I think so many runners will be out using it that it won’t even matter and that your typical ding dong authority figures have far less capabilities to prosecute with this knowledge than top secret military personnel.

If and when literally thousands of people are dying every day and the health services are simply overwhelmed, as is very close to happening in Italy, then I wouldn't rule anything out. Let's be honest, when we were watching news of the Wuhan lockdowns only a few weeks ago, very few people considered it likely they could ever take place in the West, pandemic or not. We really don't know how this will end or where we will be even in another couple of weeks, let alone couple of months or couple of years. I agree though that it's silly to worry about Strava and such like at the present moment.

Anonymous data mapping phone users’ locations provided by Vodafone and TIM – two leading phone service providers in Italy – revealed that about 40 per cent of residents in the northern Lombardy region were still moving beyond the proximity of their homes.

The findings, announced by Lombardy’s vice president Fabrizio Sala, have stoked concerns over privacy rights.

With the data at hand, the Italian government is now pondering new measures to match the magnitude of the outbreak. Luciana Lamorgese, the interior minister, said the army could be used to enforce the lockdown. On Thursday, it was confirmed that army officers would be deployed in the southern island of Sicily, where case have so far been relatively contained (321) – but where the population has been unruly.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Coevett wrote:

If they are willing to get access to Strava private activity in order to check up on people, I'm pretty sure they would be tracking people's GSP.

What does Georges St. Pierre have to do with this?

Hahaha, I'm always getting the two mixed up.

We always have thousands die per day. We have about 3 million die per year. So take the absolute worst case scenario being put out by the experts of 1 million deaths from this virus and our numbers for the year could approach 4 million. Having 1% of the population die as compared to having 1.3% die will be noticeable?

I'd stop uploading to Strava if I were you, quarantine or not.

;)

You don't have to worry about your little strava game you like to play.

We already know what you are doing at all times.

I ran almost 14 miles on Thursday. A state trooper who I think lives in the neighborhood passed me before I ran one mile. A sheriff department vehicle passed me at about 4 miles. I passed by a gasoline station where another sheriff department vehicle has just pulled in at about 6 miles into my run. At 10 miles I passed by a police vehicle parked in a church parking lot. He appeared to be clocking vehicles coming into town. If running is banned and the ban enforce by law officers then they won't need to see my Strava data to catch me. I was running on rural roads. Any 2K limit such as in France would have obviously been violated based on location of most of my route.

AT THESWOOSH wrote:

I would run by the local police station every day. Remember, police are people. If you have a relationship with them and your community you can do what you want. For example, I back up to a State Park, which is supposedly "closed." The Ranger lets me run every day since he knows I'm a competitive runner. Relationships.

Nice try since your username gives away your state. The visitor center is closed. The website clearly says the park is open.