Strava

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Is there any way to change the settings in strava so that I don't appear on segment leaderboards/CRs? I know that setting the status of each activity to "private" would achieve this but so far as I can tell I would have to do this manually for each activity which is a faff. Also setting each activity to private would mean the activities wouldn't be visible to friends which is a shame because that's the primary reason I use strava.

Nope. If you want to compete, you have to be visible. If you don't, go private. I think their privacy model is shit.

My account is set to "Request to follow" so that I can stop kudos freaks and weirdos seeing my stuff, but segment leaderboards ruin that whole system.

humph... problem is I want to be visible, but I don't want to compete.

Technically it isn't actually for me... sort of. It sounds a bit weird but there was some chat amongst some friends wondering what our dogs got up to when they came on training runs with us, and the suggestion that it would be fun to strap a GPS to them (it also came up in the running thread on here). I had a spare gps with a broken strap which I've been fixing to the dog's collar and then uploading to strava to view and to share with friends who expressed an interest.

Until now it hasn't been a problem because we've just done slow runs in areas with no segments, but a couple of days ago I did a session that included 15minutes at race pace and now the dog and I sit top two on a whole string of local segments. To me it's just a trivial, silly bit of fun, but given how competitive some people get about strava, I can imagine some people complaining about loosing their precious CRs to a dog (if they work it out). To avoid any awkwardness I don't want her to appear on the leaderboards, but it would be nice if people could still look at her runs if they want to.

At the moment I'm just setting any runs where she gets a CR to private and then just leaving the rest visible.

Set an account up for the dog! That'd be amazing.

She has one! That's the problem... we've only done a couple of test runs but she's already racking up a load of CRs!

http://www.strava.com/athletes/6740994

All good if you put a picture of the dog on your profile and write it in the profile description - when you've given it that much transparacy, then it's easy for the de-throned to just flag your run and you'll be taken off the leaderboard.

Oh god, I see. I thought you were worried because she was using your account and you thought that people might think that your CRs were suspect and etc etc. Sorry, my brain shuts off at about 3pm on Friday afternoons.

Strava needs a "pet" setting so people can see whose dog is best on their own leaderboards.

If a segment starts or ends in a privacy zone you wont appear on the leaderboard

Her CRs are legit. She's not breaking any Strava rules (drafting, dangerous intersections etc - I assume).
I agree with Thuekr - just wait for the dethroned to flag.
Only a psychopath would look into those eyes and do that though.

Do the Ts&Cs actually require Strava users to be human?

I thought about doing this to my dog but didn't have the GPS.

I'd find it hilarious losing a CR to a dog tbh.

Ha... well I made it clear that she's a dog in the name and description so hopefully that'll fix it. We'll see what happens!

She normally goes mad for the first km or so, but pretty soon she calms down and trots just ahead of me. The only problem is when she stops to sniff something interesting and then has to sprint along at 2:30/km to catch back up!

@hats, she says thanks for the follow :-)

Can Moz ride a bike?

@ewanmac Haha, I couldn't resist. It's still my dream to have a dog that I can go running with.

I agree with @bothwell, there needs to be a pet setting. Perhaps @lamby could add it to the next update to his suite of strava magic tricks? :)

They have just raised a whole heap of cash and were asking for ideas.

Yah. I read that their ideas were "branching out beyond cycling" which of course they already do. I wonder if this is going to be like the time they "launched" their shop to much fanfare after they'd already, er, had a shop for quite some time beforehand.

I dread to think what our dogs would do to strava KOMs when we are mountain biking.

I've only got road bikes at the moment and she prefers of road, but I ever get an SSCX bike built up then I'll see how she gets on with that :-)

Hats, if you are ever in the area I'm sure she'd love some company!

If the dog ends up on leaderboards can't you just flag the ride so any top 10s get annulled?

Yeah, when I first posted I didn't really know that was an option but that's what I'm doing now.

How feasible would it be to add a heartrate monitor to the dog? Would be fascinating, pysiologically-speaking, to overlay changes given the same paces.

It would be interesting, given that the dog might well have a VO2 max of ~200 or so.

I'm not a particularly hirsute man, so I'm making an assumption here, but would a dogs coat not prove to be a bit of an obstacle?

To an HR belt, that is.

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I'd be really interested to see her HR data too, although no idea how it could be achieved. Maybe an adapted optical HR clip (like the ones you might have clipped to your finger in hospital?) might work on her ear - if she'd wear it.

It would be fun to see, but it might also give an interesting insight into how she responds to temperature which is, I suspect, her major limiting factor. I was worried about it over the summer so we gave her a hair cut but that just made her look silly and I don't know if it cooled her down at all.