Another NBC question – deleted ride on Strava

[lordofthemark]

I had a problem with my phone this evening, causing it to record a 6 mile straight line instead of my actual commute. So I manually entered my commute, and deleted the incorrect 6 mile ride.

But while Strava now has the correct mileage, the NBC site shows me as having ridden 26 miles for the day, instead of 20.

Will it update automatically at some point? Do I need to contact them? I would happily just ride without Strava at some point to make it up, but that would mean my Strava mileage would no longer be accurate – and I would rather keep that correct, in order to monitory my fitness goals, etc. But I don’t want to cheat on NBC.

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[Judd]

@lordofthemark 159484 wrote:

I had a problem with my phone this evening, causing it to record a 6 mile straight line instead of my actual commute. So I manually entered my commute, and deleted the incorrect 6 mile ride.

But while Strava now has the correct mileage, the NBC site shows me as having ridden 26 miles for the day, instead of 20.

Will it update automatically at some point? Do I need to contact them? I would happily just ride without Strava at some point to make it up, but that would mean my Strava mileage would no longer be accurate – and I would rather keep that correct, in order to monitory my fitness goals, etc. But I don’t want to cheat on NBC.

According to the development roadmap page (https://nationalbikechallenge.org/roadmap) this issue is being worked on. Essentially, once a ride has synced, the NBC website currently isn’t going back to see if anything has changed about the ride. Should correct itself in the (hopefully) not too distant future.

[DismalScientist]

I have the problem that the phone picks a random place to start and gives a straight line to the actual. The correct solution to this is to crop out the random starting point and proceed as usual.

[dkel]

@DismalScientist 159489 wrote:

I have the problem that the phone picks a random place to start and gives a straight line to the actual. The correct solution to this is to crop out the random starting point and proceed as usual.

You’re not using one of those phones that has two tin cans connected by a string, are you?

[DismalScientist]

@dkel 159491 wrote:

You’re not using one of those phones that has two tin cans connected by a string, are you?

I tried that once, but it seemed to limit my biking range in GPS mode.

[Judd]

@DismalScientist 159518 wrote:

I tried that once, but it seemed to limit my biking range in GPS mode.

You have to tie the string to three satellites for it to work.

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