Any one else wish they never joined Strava?

My wife banned me from my original Strava account due to privacy concerns and also possibly because I had some attractive female marathoners I was following and being followed by. Now I use a Strava account with an anonymous name and just follow and am followed by runners I know in real life only. I do enjoy Strava.. I enjoy seeing how the training and racing is going for all of my runner friends.

I used strava for half a year, but now years later I still get notification emails about course records going down. The courses are all silly segments of routes and trails of random distance. If people are so concerned about these records, why don't they go cherry pick races or something.

Yup yup wrote:

I can't stand idiots who drive out of town to the start of segments to take down my easy run CR's because they are not fit enough to be able to run the whole loop. There's one guy in my town who does this all the time and writes the run down as easy despite there been a 15 minute difference between elapsed and moving time and the flybys showing his ugly mug paused just after the segments end.

Dude, you are driving out to 1.5 mile segments that I done on 20+ mile runs and you still can't beat them. Time to grow up.

If you are an anyway average competitive runner in a town full of joggers, it's even worse as there seems to be a passive aggressive contempt towards you for holding CR's. The whole world is gone crazy.

This is such a hobbyjogger post.

balsam2 wrote:

+1 - It's pretty stressful and I've questioned why I used it at times.

If you are part of clubs or challenges, there are always people trying to beat you on the leaderboards.

you're average pace for the week is displayed-- do an easy run and it goes up.

if you decide to do a loop you commonly do at an easy pace it gives you a sad graph showing you're going slower than average

If you do a race and it doesn't go well, everyone gets to see it.

Going private is a great idea. you can invite a couple of running buddies who you know well and keep the rest out. Or you can get rid of it entirely.

You really care too much what other people think of you for these things to be important.

Never used strava and never will.

It is just another circle jerk and a place where people try to out do one another.

Also it is an invasion of privacy.

People can look at my race results but otherwise FO.

I use a casio stopwatch and a microsoft word document.

Old post, but a man after my own heart!

+1

Didn't read through the whole thread but like others I have never felt any pressure. I use it off and on when I am building up to a few key races. It's just a training log for me. Most my runs are through the trails at like 9-10 minute pace, the only time I am trying to impress someone is at a real race (not that anyone really cares then either, except a few good running buddies and some weird old club type guys that happen to know everyone's times. )

Why is it some people will give me kudos for a short easy run but not when I do a great race? They will give me thumbs up for a 4 miler at 8 or 9 minutes per mile but not for the 10k in 35 minutes.

There's a man from my running club whose training makes me feel ill. We're both 17/18 5K and 36/37 10K ability, but I run 40 mpw with mostly 8 minute miles and he runs 70 mpw with 6 / low 7 minute miles. His training has been getting harder and harder and to be fair he is very good at the marathon, but he is 15-20 years older than me and I think he is going to completely break down and get sick. He follows and runs with a few 15 minute 5K guys but trains much harder than they do. It's just painful to watch.

I have 5000+ followers on strava.

bro if you are feeling tired of strava delete it, its not a big deal

I keep everything private, follow no one and don't allow anyone to follow me, and never look at segments.

I never understood why anyone would share their Strava data unless they were pros. I don't care what even my best friend's run looked like.

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Had to go private cause I kept racing my easy days. Now I just post an occasional run if I feel like it, it is pretty nice :)

Only because it was pushing leftist propaganda last year. It's been more calm lately. I don't spend much time on there, I probably only go on a few times a week for about 3 minutes at a time. I don't care about other peoples' training that much. Probably the best thing about it is the segments.

Why aren’t you super into it?

Sure, which is why I deleted my profile. My hilarious wife, who also had a strava profile and deleted it before I did, liked to say, "oh, that's just for people who want to show off." My friends' kudos for all my pokey runs just didn't do anything for me. And they shouldn't have been impressed by my hobby jogging, after all I do it for myself not them. I didn't get a charge out of seeing what the local elite runners were doing, either. Go figure.