If you use Strava what would you think….

[Treesaregreen1]

if you’re a regular on Strava and you seen someone who never posts start posting a 1 mile run every day, what would you think?

I’ll post the context after (if anyone cares 🤣) but I’m intrigued to see answers first

They are trying to get fit and starting off slow...

Well, not much. I'm on strava. A mile is not much. I'd think, good start. Build the habit.

I'm not a user but have thought about stating it, why would it show up users who don't run? Do you mean that there some way to monitor folk who aren't active runners and then get notified when they start running?

They’re starting couch25k?

I don't think I'd give it a moment's thought, people upload all sorts of random stuff to Strava

Yeah I'd think they were trying to build fitness & starting sensibly & getting into the habit of daily exercise

Yeah, it pops up “Bingo Woksmuggler has posted their first activity in a while, give them kudos!”

Either just starting to build fitness slowly or I'd maybe wonder if they'd just got a dog (and breaking them in slowly).

Maybe you're starting a run streak?

You follow ppl and their activities show up on your feed. If they don't do anything they don't appear. If they do something after a long break Strava will pop up with a notification on the activity that says something like "XYZ is back - give some kudos!"

I have seen people doing challenges called RED (run every day) month name. I would assume it is that.

Thank you for explaining, I wouldn't want randoms to be notified about my exercise so sounds like it's not an app for me

Agree with @RenoDakota, this sounds like a challenge of some kind - run a mile a day for a month.

Are they doing some kind of 'mile a day in May' challenge thing? Someone near me posted they were doing a daily walk 'for Alzheimers' but then clarified that they weren't bothering to register or collec money, just doing it get outside more!! Bonkers! 😆

@shoppingshamed no no that’s only shown to your friends who you’ve added!!

its a social thing so most people follow their friends. But you can set your profile to private and accept nobody if you want. It’s a great app

@shoppingshamed It would only notify people who follow you, and you can fully control whether your activity is seen by everyone, only your followers, or only you with various privacy settings.

That they’d changed their settings. I have friends who choose to hide activities from their feeds, then ‘reappear’.

It’s not randoms, it’s people that are following you and that you have approved. Like any other social media platform.

That they're doing a daily mile

Ok thank you for responses.

im quite unfit and really lack consistency & discipline while trying to lose weight and recently stopping smoking. I thought I would run/walk a mike a day and see how I got on. To my surprise I was able to run the full mile but my god I nearly died. Anyway, I have persevered with it. I have no desire to run longer distances and am still slow (10.30min/mile) but I actually feel a bit stupid posting it on Strava. Its such a minuscule distance in comparison to what I see on there and I started thinking people must be thinking why does she bother with / post that

If you're interested in running further (and not feeling like you're going to die 😅) couch to 5k is a great programme

People are really a lot less obsessed with you than you think

No one will care

I would absolutely not care. I use Strava for bikes rides with the kids, hill hikes, and runs. I did a challenge one January and often went out and ran a mile and half. Enjoy your short runs, they all count.

You’ll find that absolutely nobody cares. But. You can set your privacy in such a way that the posts are only visible to you. It’s easy.
Good luck with your running, we all started somewhere:) keep going!

Don’t have any followers and set your account to private. Then the info is there just for you. This is what I do