Cheating on Strava

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Have you ever flagged anyone for say "running" a mile in 5:30 minutes gor crown after crown for the segments, when in reality they were on a bike while their partner was running? All they had to do was log it as a cycling activity, but they used the the title "Bike ride while x ran" with run as the activity.

On the one hand I'm not too bothered as it doesn't take away anything I do, but on the other, I am a little competitive and like collecting crowns or cups for being in the top 10. It also means, it's unfair for anyone who genuinely ran the fastest for that segment who loses out to a cyclist.

Nah, life’s too short. Saddos will always be sad. I think it’s also possible to get software that doctors your data before you upload it, for total numpties that are geeks as well.

Fwiw I’m quite competitive too, there’s one or two mtb trails I know on my regular rides that have completely ridiculous times, would have to be doing 100mph+ on a twisty technical segment, a quick rider would take about a minute, the kom is 6 seconds!

I think its reasonable to report this and I don't think its sad - they won't be in trouble! They just won't get the crown either!

I only notice where they were, what they were doing, not how fast they were. I'm intrigued by people who run laps around our local park: there are much nicer routes locally, why our dull park? Or the guy who cycles 17m to parkrun, does parkrun, cycles back (well done, but there is a park run now 0.5 miles from his house, too). Friend puts her paddleboarding activity with kids on Strava, nice pictures. Gives me ideas where I could go paddling, too.

You can do little videos now, those are cute.

I was wondering about electric bikes, I assume that's a problem on some uphill segments.

I have 🤣 they don’t tell the person who’s reported it, just remove the segment entry. A woman at my club had a habit of driving around with her run still logging and taking all crowns. It drives me a bit mad that people don’t correct them, but I’m aware I’m far too invested in some segments 🤣😬

I did in the end and the fastest woman get her well earned crown.

Someone on the FB Strava group posted about the same thing today because his crown was taken by someone cycling rather than running 3 minute miles!

I left a message on the exercise for someone who took my cycling crowns in a car once - pointed out they may wish to delete the activity as it showed that they were doing 90mph on the motorway! 🤣🤣🤣

Brilliant! 😆

Or the guy who cycles 17m to parkrun, does parkrun, cycles back (well done, but there is a park run now 0.5 miles from his house, too)

I do similar - it's because I have friends at the more distant parkrun (which used to be my nearest, but no longer is) and because I like the course there better (closest is notoriously overcrowded, especially first half of first lap, plus a pinch point; it's also flat which many people prefer, but I like the undulations of my regular).

Plus the extra exercise on going to and from is all good training - if you fitted in a swim as well, that's a fantastic triathlon training set up

I don't use Strava (seems a bit stalkerish to me) but there were major rucksions at my running club when a woman was posting crazy 1 and 5k times and it turned out she was stopping the clock and resting partway through.

I don't really understand how it all works, bit some people seem to take it very seriously.

Luke all social media, there are privacy settings if you don't want to be stalked. I only have 14 followers who I know personally, any requests to follow, I need to approve first.

You can also hide the map if you don't want people to see your route.

I reported an activity once. I had the QOM and had worked hard for it, only to see it taken by someone clearly in a car. I'd say she forgot to turn off the Garmin when she put bike in the car cos her early cycle times were much slower than the end few km

Yeah I have. A woman who was 'running' 4 min miles when 90% of what she logged on Strava was bike rides at the same speed.

I'm sure it was a mistake but it moved me one place up on the leaderboard 😂

Haha yeah I do. Well actually I screen shot and send to OH who does the reporting! The person reported won't know who did it and it will remove their activity from the leader board. I think they get a message asking them to crop or change the activity mode.
There is now an ebike option which avoids the arguments amongst cyclists (if recorded correctly).

Most of the ones I've seen look like genuine error rather than trying to claim something they didn't earn. A friend of mine accidentally recorded a bike as a run. The crown holder whose records she took left her a polite comment asking her if it should be a ride rather than run. My friend apologised, amended her activity and congratulated the runner on her amazing times, and they went on to have a chat about training and how amazing the crown holders run times were, all very amicable.

I am on the fence about a runner near me who is getting lots of crowns. She is doing canicross with two large dogs who are clearly doing a lot of the work (6.5 min/mile pace + on undulating off road trails). Although I know the canicross community have been asking for it to be a separate activity on strava.

I clearly labelled a ride as a “fell of and went to A&E” then it was reported & strava allowed me to take the ride back to where I fell.

I had taken all the female crowns on a popular hill

which has now been thrown apart anyway as the commonwealth games road race used this section on their route this year

Hope you were ok @ivykaty44 . I had some QOMs on a holly route for a good while which were all well stripped off me when the ladies Tour of Ireland came around

Pinkieismyname Oh thanks, this was a while back now! I had concussion & they kept me in all day. I asked my dad 3 times if he liked my nail polish and other odds things. But all ok 👍🏻

I do have a couple of Q crowns locally but they’re very obscure 😂