Strava pause

[lordofthemark]

So Strava pauses automatically if you are stopped in the same place for 20 seconds, right? But that 20 seconds still counts as ride time, correct? So if you are, you know, stopping completely at every red light, and many stop signs, but the stops are rarely more than 20 seconds, that auto pause will not actually mean very much. Nothing unless the stops are over 20 seconds. I notice when I am riding in places where I am stopping a great deal (despite my ideological sympathies, I am in fact a very reluctant Idahoer) Strava shows my speed going down to 1 or 2 miles an hour. I guess the 20 seconds or less of being actually stopped is too short for it to show a zero MPH speed.

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[Rod Smith]

I ride a hybrid, I’m old and I haul stuff.

[dplasters]

Idaho’ing the lights on Lee Highway/Fairview Park is not an option for me. I’d be a pancake. The other side of that though is they take a long time, so I am frequently stopped for more than 20 seconds.

There are three lights near the Vienna metro I’ll do some combo of what VA legally allows and an Idaho. I know I won’t set the sensor off so if a car isn’t behind me I just go with best judgement after coming to a complete stop. I fail at the whole two light cycle or 3 minute thing.

[Vicegrip]

L @lordofthemark 107428 wrote:

I did not mean this to be an excuse thread While I think I have some legitimate ones (I am 54 and just began riding again a couple of years ago, and I was also always picked last in athletics as a kid – no particular issue, just generally a wimpy klutz) I have some reasons that I can do something about (like getting less lazy about keeping tires inflated, for example) But sometimes it is useful to know how fast you ride, so you can get an idea if a given group ride works for you, for example. And I do want to get faster, so it helps to know how the system I am using to track that works.

i think you are ready to get a garmin edge. You can set the pause so it does not delay stopping when you stop. You will instantly be “faster”. You can also see the moving time to total time and you can use moving time as a slightly better measure. A garmin edge with the speed sensor is about as accurate as you would need and in many ways better than just the phone app. The Edge 500 bundle would be the way I would go.

[Raymo853]

Of course GPX files are plain text and soooo easy to manipulate. Easy to change dates, timestamps and what not. Simple to make yourself look cool doing laps at Haines Points in Jan 1977 (the coldest Jan in the last 50 years) or shaving the seconds.mins off to make yourself look faster than a drugged up Geneviève Jeanson.

[hozn]

@Raymo853 107489 wrote:

Of course GPX files are plain text and soooo easy to manipulate. Easy to change dates, timestamps and what not. Simple to make yourself look cool doing laps at Haines Points in Jan 1977 (the coldest Jan in the last 50 years) or shaving the seconds.mins off to make yourself look faster than a drugged up Geneviève Jeanson.

Yeah, if you’re wanting to play outside the rules, you don’t even need to get your hands dirty: http://www.digitalepo.com/

They could (and maybe do) develop algorithms to detect cheating, but really ?? Cheating at Strava is a truly pathetic cry for help.

[rcannon100]

@hozn 107494 wrote:

Cheating at Freezing Saddles is a truly pathetic cry for help.

[Raymo853]

@hozn 107494 wrote:

Yeah, if you’re wanting to play outside the rules, you don’t even need to get your hands dirty: http://www.digitalepo.com/

They could (and maybe do) develop algorithms to detect cheating, but really ?? Cheating at Strava is a truly pathetic cry for help.

Digital EPO and most other cheating to speed things up does leave some very odd things in the data. I’ve got a blog posting bookmarked at home about it I’ll try to find.

And I’ve heard Strava semi-covertly looks for such shenanigans and Tom-Foolery

[Steve O]

@cvcalhoun 107420 wrote:

Last year, I “won” the Tortoise prize in BAFS.

• I am 61 years old.
• I am female.
• Genetic testing has shown that I lack any of the genes for fast-twitch muscle fibers, which are important for speed.
• Even as a young child, my lack of speed (or any other athletic ability) was so obvious that I was picked last for every sporting team. This was particularly bad because the boy always picked ahead of me had been disabled by polio and could barely walk. (No, I’m not kidding!)

Let’s just say that I avoid contests (or even group rides) that require any sort of speed.

All true, but she was one of the few badasses who showed for last year’s FSLNHPP.

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