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Strava on my phone is way too unstable for that (Android 8.0.0). Crashes regularly when paused!

Hello everyone. I've noticed that recently that PRs aren't being captured by Strava (see attached pic where I rode the segment in 22s and my PR is still 30s).

Anyone know the cause of this and know how to fix it!?

Tia

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Not sure how to fix your issue but that top ten can't be correct! 125kph across London bridge?

The joys of GPS on mobile phones in dense urban environments.

A guy I follow did something I liked: recorded his commute to work, paused his gps all day at work and then restarted for the commute home. 1 activity, 2 commutes.

Anyone know if that technique is possible on a Wahoo Bolt/Elemnt? I've been doing it for years with a Garmin but there seem to be varying opinions on the Wahoo forum (some think it doesn't work, other think it does, some think the limit is 6 hours)..

https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/957317886112124928
This is pretty funny: OpSec vs. everyone having a personal gps that they upload to public websites.

Picked up by bastions of Sunday Twitter ‘journalism’ ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases

There not actually secret bases though are they?

No, the actual strategic value is pretty low aside from showing patrol routes/where they do PT. It's just an interesting consequence of modern social media and data tracking. There's no way the army would condone their soldiers tracking and broadcasting their precise location and the soldiers themselves might think its fine since they're uploading to a private account until something like that heatmap gets released.

It reminds me of when, during the annexation of Crimea, russian soldiers were posting selfies on VK not realising their phones were geotagging the images. You could look at the EXIF data and get their exact coordinates.

yeah, it is a pretty huge oversight by the DOD and all the other 3 letter agencies. Especially when you realise that fitbits were given out to people and they were encouraged to use em.

They probably didn't say "Upload to Strava for max kudos from randoms" though.

In this case though randoms are probably ISIS.

Significant personal safety issue though as it seems to show commonly used routes in an area where this is no other activity. The opportunity for ambush and kidnapping in some of these places must be a major risk. It puts my worries about my repeated commute into perspective.

No, the actual strategic value is pretty low aside from showing patrol routes/where they do PT

Well, maybe in broad terms, but not at the individual level. You just need to find the associated segment, look at the people on the leaderboard, trace them to their home area (when they're back from duty), and take them out... (If you're a disgruntled bad person)

I did check that myself and there are no segments on any bases that I can see, it's possible that they were all deleted when the story first broke though. There's very few segments in the middle-east, mainly in major cities like Erbil and Kirkuk and the highscores all seem to be populated by natives.

There's one segment that I could find that appears to be used by oil and gas company employees in south-east Iraq, but I couldn't find anything that links to a military individual in the quick look I had.

The plot thickens (or they have just read our discussions...)

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/strava-military-bases-area-51-map-afghanistan-gchq-military

Hello guys,
I've a problem.
Distance statistics do not become updated in spite of the rides.
January: 836km, February: 136 Km and its written 895km.
WTF?

Any ideas?

Anyone able to write a script that replaces 'morning ride', 'afternoon ride', 'evening ride' etc with some a selection of pre-written cycling gibberish?

amazing

Morning Ride = 'Great morning smashfest with the lads, Gareth you're a beast!'
Afternoon Ride = 'Nice easy spin this afternoon, legs feeling good'
Evening Ride = 'On my way home, city looks great on a bike at night!"

Needs hashtags.

that reads a bit last century

Morning Ride = #ChatLaps
Afternoon Ride = #RecoveryRide
Evening Ride = #BagelRun

Morning ride = #fml
Evening ride = #yay
Morning ride = #fml
Evening ride = #yay

Forever

TBH real influencers don't use Strava, they just gram and tag sponsors

real influencers don't use Strava, instagram or have sponsors... they just chat way more shit on bike forums than everyone else.

#hippyhasfatterinfluencethanyou

Shouldn't be too hard to hack together using the API... I might have a dab at it this weekend, it's a great idea :)