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Basically, it's not that useful to compare strava times/pace. When I got a watch (Garmin 735XT) i was suddenly running much slower which did initially hurt my ego.
The flip side is that it was much more accurate, so I'm not going to enter a race thinking I can run much faster than I'm able to.
JamesQGM-
Interesting - thanks, good to know.
My mate has being doing 5 and 10k efforts round the Emirates stadium and is getting some pretty fast times which I'm suspicious of. (Yeah, he's quicker than me, and yeah I'm bitter about it).
I did 12k the other day at a very relaxed pace. I went round the emirates as part of that and on that km segment my pace jumped quite a bit. I definitely wasn't running faster.
Made me wonder whether there is something going on with the gps round the emirates, or whether as it's a circle, the gps is triangulating and constantly cutting corners and hence giving a quicker time....
Either way, I've told my mate I'm not accepting his emirates times. (He is also using a phone).
greeno
why would you say your strava efforts pre-watch are so far out? Were you recording them on a phone, and is a watch gps considerably more accurate??
@Josh - nice modest response from lowbrows i thought. 36 is super human in my book!