Quote Originally Posted by Stolly View Post
A bit of an update on Strava.....

Its a bit crap

Well to be fair its not completely crap and trying to improve your times up particular hill climbs is good fun but here's a couple of things it does really badly:

1. Moving time! The only time that it gives for a run is an arbitrarily calculated moving time and not the actual total time it takes. For short runs there's not so much in it either way I guess but for longer runs the difference can be massive, especially so if a route has ultra steep climbs. The weekend before last I supported Dave Spencer on leg 3 of his BG attempt and it took me approximately 6 hrs and 32 minutes to get from Dunmail to Wasdale. Guess how long Strava gave the moving time as?

4 hrs and 24 minutes!!!! Hahahahaha!

It must have counted every steep climb and especially Lords Rake and the West Wall traverse as me being stationary! The thing is though a couple of people who followed my run on Strava were stunned by my time and really impressed (falsely) but thats not surprising if Strava is knocking 2 hours off

2. A more minor point admittedly but Strava is also rubbish as a running log in that, if you forget to turn your watch on for a run or accidentally turn it off mid-run, although you can enter the missing distance in as a manually input adjustment, you can't include the lost elevation. So if you're particularly keen on recording elevation, thats too bad

Its for pedal pushers really, lets face it
Just discovered a solution for that problem stolly.
If you select "race" on strava for a run, it makes the elapsed equal to moving.
You can do that after the event, or even flip it now.

Alternatively for a training run where you are stopping here and there, just prevent the auto stop on your watch so all time is logged, then stop or start your watch when you have a picnic..