Is strava going from suck to blow?

Kaleidopete said:
2nd fastest time on Banker Trail.... 🤪 problem is I wasn't on Banker Trail, I was on Doublepond, as the map says

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The matching algorithm is laughably bad. I PR'd a longish section at Allaire yesterday ("Steelman Technical"). I'm not a rocket but we were genuinely moving. My friend Brian is 6th on the segment. 41 seconds ahead! What? I've ridden with him on that trail.

It turns out that he turned in from a fireroad - where he was going 20mph - skipping 1/4 of the segment. He had a 40s head start.
 
Norm said:
I have seen something like this with other people, which has made me LOL a few times.
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i have one, and i'm not deleting it...cause it was a good ride, and there is no way to opt out of segment.
Kev is second. he skipped the same section.
 
I'm still testing this theory.
I think Strava is highly dependent on the sampling rate used by the GPS device. I am borrowing a Garmin and comparing results to Strava on the phone (Google Pixel). I suspect that the Garmin has only one job, and can dedicate more battery towards that job, while the phone needs to be ready to do more important things. Using the phone consistently under-reports trail distance, but not road distance. Maybe because it defaults to ground maps? With a less frequent sampling rate, the phone would capture straighter lines. To test this, I have walked, and biked the same route. The map is more contoured on the slower walking.

I also think Strava has a bit of correction catch up built in, meaning that if it under-captured segment one, it will compensate in segment two to get back on track. That would give us PRs or even KOMs which were unearned, but were the catch-up segment. My example of this is when riding with my wife, I beat her by three minutes on a segment, but she beat me by three minutes on the next. We were on a tandem.
 
Fire Lord Jim said:
I'm still testing this theory.
I think Strava is highly dependent on the sampling rate used by the GPS device. I am borrowing a Garmin and comparing results to Strava on the phone (Google Pixel). I suspect that the Garmin has only one job, and can dedicate more battery towards that job, while the phone needs to be ready to do more important things. Using the phone consistently under-reports trail distance, but not road distance. Maybe because it defaults to ground maps? With a less frequent sampling rate, the phone would capture straighter lines. To test this, I have walked, and biked the same route. The map is more contoured on the slower walking.

I also think Strava has a bit of correction catch up built in, meaning that if it under-captured segment one, it will compensate in segment two to get back on track. That would give us PRs or even KOMs which were unearned, but were the catch-up segment. My example of this is when riding with my wife, I beat her by three minutes on a segment, but she beat me by three minutes on the next. We were on a tandem.
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For distance, the Garmin is more accurate, especially when using a wheel sensor. Sampling rate can be set as low as 1sec on the Garmin. I have 1 bike without a wheel sensor and when I use the Strava distance correction feature on the desktop, always increases distance. I see the opposite on the bikes with the wheel sensor, Strava will shorten the distance when using correction, so I don't bother correcting.
 
The last year + 90% of my rides are called: Morning Ride. The other 7% are Lunch Ride. Once in a blue moon I'll bother to call it something else.
 
www.bandok.com

Bandók Ride Names

Put an end to boring-ass Strava activity names and give your activities the names they deserve.
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as some have noted, the first few are like WTF, then sometimes 1 out of 10 are clever, the rest are like whatever.

For whatever reason I get some entertainment out of trying to come up with creative ride titles for my posts. The real challenge is trying to not reuse any.
 
The other day I managed a PR on a specific DH section I've ridden a dozen times. Even though I stopped three times on that section to adjust my derailleur. I'm impressed Strava accounted for that....🙄 😆
 
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iman29 said:
www.bandok.com

Bandók Ride Names

Put an end to boring-ass Strava activity names and give your activities the names they deserve.
www.bandok.com www.bandok.com

as some have noted, the first few are like WTF, then sometimes 1 out of 10 are clever, the rest are like whatever.

For whatever reason I get some entertainment out of trying to come up with creative ride titles for my posts. The real challenge is trying to not reuse any.
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OK so this is aggravating me to no end.

For years been using my Fitbit watch that i wear 24 x 7 to track sleep, HR etc., and especially my walks (aka WtD). There is an easy to follow way to set up the sync connections to be authorized between Fitbit and Strava just like for Garmin, Zwift, and even my C2 Rower.

In the last 2 weeks the only thing that works to sync to Strava is my Garmin. I tried removing and re-adding the Fitbit connection multiple times and nothing works. Sending support ticket to Strava is the black hole of nothing. For now I have to login to a PC and download the TCX files and upload to Strava - major PITA. Same thing now with my Row activities, nothing syncs anymore.

I didnt change anything prior to this so I have no idea what is wrong - just wondering if anyone else is seeing an issue for non-Garmin type connections to Strava? Seems to me the problem is on the Strava side. Being a tech person this is even more annoying because I can't figure it out.
 
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