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But Strava shouldn't record this as a pb, although the distance vs moving time looks fast, Strava still uses universal start/stop time for segments and pbs.
Some nutter in my club did 36 miles in his 10m wide garden. He counted laps but strava says it's about 12 miles less. I don't know what to do with this information, other than conclude my teammate is mental.
Edit: and of course, the main take away is to take all Strava posts with a pinch of salt. My neighbour for example, seems to ride a very similar pace on the local loops, but was completely surprised to hear that I don't stop on a 40 mile ride, where as they stop quite a lot. It's a minor thing, but it's good to remember that comparing stats only shows so much.
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they call them "Estimated Best Efforts" for a reason!
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But Strava shouldn't record this as a pb, although the distance vs moving time looks fast, Strava still uses universal start/stop time for segments and pbs.
That doesn't stop people posting screengrabs of the Strava efforts with "New 5k PB!!!one!11!!eleven!!two".
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rossbarkley5k
Most of them are a piss take, but it all started with a few claims outed by StravaWankers on twitter.
I've ranted before about how Strava's "moving time" algorithm is provably broken, including posting full recreation steps with faked GPX files on their bug tracking site, but they just don't care.
delidigs
Greenbank
It's the opposite, it gets terrible GPS lock and thinks you've run further. Instead of running 100m down a road in a straight line it thinks you've jinked 10 or so yards off to the side, then 10 yards off to the other side and all of those inaccuracies build up.
The GPS lock doesn't affect the time, as that should be static, but if Strava thinks you've gone further than you have in a specific segment of time then it'll think you've gone faster.
In open country my Garmin Forerunner 935 is very accurate, I can even pick out where I've veered into the road to give people more than 2m distance. Running into work (SE1) it always goes loopy round the back of St Thomas' Hospital and that's before I get to the underpass below Westminster bridge.
The other think that people are doing on Strava now is a pisstake of the #RossBarkley5k.
Strava reports/displays moving time for a run, so people are going out and running 5k but doing it as sprints and rests, but the resting time doesn't count. So people are smashing out PB's all over the place (someone did a 12 minute 5k) but the elapsed time is way longer (some over an hour). Also some are doing them down big hills and pausing the activity while they jog back up and recover, then smash it down the hill again.
Just beware what you see on Strava's "Moving time", always look at "Elapsed time" or the pace graph to see if there are lots of gaps.