Any one else wish they never joined Strava?

I'm one of those people who does everything to the letter. I did sub 3 by doing 3 hour long runs at 8:30 pace. I never feel pressure to run faster. But strava is like a race that never ends. You get people doing 13 miles at 7:00 and they do it for attention. But they can't even run sub 40. That's why I don't like strava. Few actually care about training right and using logic, they just want attention. It's like all social media.

No. It's one of the best apps on my phone

Burnt out with a website? Lol get your life together. Strava is just social media for runners. I use it as a log and I love it. I don't always scroll through other people's runs but it's nice to get data on the athletes I coach.

The website is awesome.

You're projecting. Most people who are serious runners have a healthy relationship with the app.

This butt hurt dude is the real reason people get upset about Strava.

If you're upset about losing your segments, then run faster or shut up.

Don't know why this guy got downvoted. Running a strava segment just to take a "crown" is pathetic.

I wish I'd never joined this thread.

Is it rude to offer training advice on strava?

One of my followers puts in a hell of a shift, making sure every mile is under 8 minutes and they do a 20 miler every weekend (they are training for the marathon). Last time they ran 3:20 and their training is a carbon copy again, even though they want to go much faster. It's hard not to say anything...

Strava is full of annoying people like that.

I had to quit because I was comparing myself to others. I remember doing a really good workout one morning then feeling deflated after browsing strava. Total mood kill. I prefer to just focus on myself. The downside is I can't connect with the local running community if I'm not on strava.

Strava is just another form of social media. People use it for attention. No one cares about your runs or achievements, so why bother. Very few if any people will reach out and want to meet in real life. Once I stopped using it I just couldn't see the point anymore except to analyse race data.

Question: I graduated college in 2010, before Strava... are most college runners on Strava these days, like, is it almost considered weird if you are not? Kind of like a TikTok thing for the current generation? I'm just trying to get an idea of how widespread Strava is, I'm not on in and never will be.

Exactly. And normal, non-narcissistic, people can use social media responsibly. No one cares about your runs because you don't have any friends. You don't reach out through strava to meet in real life, you use strava to share stuff with people you already meet with in real life.

Completely lost interest in strava when I began noticing people using their bike times as run times. Also felt the need to run fast on every run in order to break certain records or whatever. Only to have some guy break it by 5 minutes on his bike a week later. Left the site several years ago. Didn’t even know it was still around.

I use an ebike whilst automatically uploading efforts as a "run". I used to press the button on each set of traffic lights I passed too. Still do every now and again as people drive too fast.

Strava seels like a narcissistic hall of mirrors.

Some teams have everyone on strava, others its optional.

College runners may not want to use it because their coaches get hyper into tracking their training, which isn't the right thing for all runners.

Post college, EVERYONE is on strava. There will be like one guy in any given running club who doesn't use strava.

Agree w/ several prior posters. Strava is a training log, but it's also social media. I stopped most social media and felt better (more than anything: I think I was wasting too much time and it wasn't a positive). However, I kept using Strava, thinking "it's different". I do think it is a cool tool, but a private log works great for training purposes, and group runs work way better for external motivation.. The scrolling/liking/being alerted about activity etc etc feels just about like any other social media.. All in all: I think it is a positive tool but should be respected as a potential negative use of time... I'm not using it much anymore (just use connect) and I don't miss it

I use it as a log with settings for followers-only views. Have exchanged follows with a couple of runners in similar circumstances curious about each others’ training. Method? Follow for a week or two, check out what we discussed, unfollow (for the most part). Is that worth it? Maybe, maybe not.

My Strava connections are my version of Ron Swanson relationships: “don’t even know his name. … Best friend I ever had. … We still never talk sometimes.”

I wouldn’t necessarily govern most IRL relationships like that, but it’s a charmed online existence if you have to have one at all.