Strava question/issue

MissJR

MissJR

not in the mood for your shenanigans
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So this weekend I did two hikes .. a little over 7 miles and another a little over 11. Both days Strava congratulated me on my longest hike but the problem/question is that neither are my longest hike. In the case of the 7+ hike, I've done that loop before as well as a similar hike at 8 miles. And, although 11+ miles is my longest in recent history, I've done longer hikes at the Grand Canyon (most notably 21 miles)... So what gives? Why is Strava saying these hikes are the longest when clearly they're not?

I haven't noticed it for bike rides but admittedly I've been slacking on the bike.
 
On a recent ride Strava told me it was my 2nd highest climbing ever. I didn’t dig in too much, though it was also a ride with a lot of climbing (monkey knife fight). But I also didn’t think it was THAT much. Not sure how useful this data point is, but maybe they changed something?
 
Norm said:
Have you tweaked your privacy setting between then & now. Like maybe that GC hike was private to a select group and since then you've opened it up more?

I know there are some weird Strava privacy setting such that it won't "count" even though it's just personal to your activities.
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Possibly. I know I've changed the distance from the house radius but otherwise most of my stuff is "followers"
 
go to my activities, filter by hikes, sort by distance.
report back !
 
Patrick said:
go to my activities, filter by hikes, sort by distance.
report back !
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Is this what you want? I did 11+ miles to make the list shorter

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MissJR said:
Man... My whole Strava is a lie! 🤣

I know what I'm doing at work today
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You can find rants somewhere on mtbnj from me about crappy elevation values from barometric altimeters (which is what these small units use), especially the ones on small GPS devices that can be easily clogged. I think it is when it is low/decreasing pressure, i.e. cloudy/rainy that it can be really bad. I typically only do it for a really big ride or if it shows a really low value on a rainy day. In theory the corrected elevation on strava should be really good because of the law of averages or something. You used to be able to default that it does it when you upload but they did away with it maybe because the extra processing time killed baby seals, IDK.
 
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