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But... But... If it isn't on Strava, did it happen?! 😉
I was running with another bloke on a pennine club run one evening and I asked him if he was on strava, he quite disparagingly said something like "I prefer a purest form or running". That left me wondering how my run with him on that beautful night on Kinder was not "pure" becasue I had a watch on my wrist that is pretty much ignored until I get home.
I did a race once only to find at the end I had paused my watch after 7 seconds so couldn't put it on strava. Good job I could see the results online or there would have been no point doing it!
Where I find it great is getting ideas for routes from looking at other runs. I had a few hours running the high peak marathon route back in the summer after using a firefox plugin that allowed me to download a very good gpx plot from strava. Put that on my Garmin eTrex and used that as a reference for a great day out. Done similar things with the Kinder Dozen, Kinder Killer and numerous other long day outs.
I regularly do similar using memory map had some marvelous long days out on routes of my own making over terrain that I have some knowledge of from my interpretation of the map when plotting the route before downloading the GPX to gps for back up if I have any doubts with my memory and or map reading immensely satisfying.
Not really sure what strava is good for really.
Given that it was originally a road cycling based virtual competition app/website it's probably best to view it in that light. Your mate runs/cycles segment x in a particular time so you can head out when you want and try and beat him:rolleyes: My main use now is to log how much I've done. I'll do some of the monthly challenges and use them as a excuse to get out and do stuff - I'm currently being completely whupped by my wife on this month's climbing challenge though!