Damn you Strava!

Dermot Illogical

There's a certain hill in Portmarnock that I've got KOM on (not for long after telling you lot about it though..) and I beat my previous best last night by 12 seconds. But...Strava didn't log my time for the segment. I recreated the segment from the ride and it doesn't recognise it as a duplicate.
Anybody any ideas on what might be happening?
The only difference between last night and the previous times I've done the segment was that I had to go out on an overtake of some cars that were holding me up. Can a small deviation of route like that fool Strava?

Lumen

Ride it again!

colm_gti

What did you record it with? Smartphone?

Dermot Illogical

colm_gti wrote: »

What did you record it with? Smartphone?

Garmin 500.

colm_gti

RT66 wrote: »

Garmin 500.

That's odd, always found that when I used to record rides with my iPhone it wasn't overly accurate and missed out on segments, but since switching to a Bryton Rider 35 (identical to edge 500) I haven't missed any.

Maybe email them and see if they can fix it for you?

doozerie

RT66 wrote:

Can a small deviation of route like that fool Strava?

At a guess I would say yes. From some issues I've noticed recently it seems like Strava can be a bit vague when comparing segments. I've seen it categorise two segments as being the same despite having only about 60% of their 15km (ish) routes in commons - in that case it is being overly vague with its matching, which is the opposite perhaps of what you are encountering, but it does make me wonder about Strava's reliability when comparing routes to segments.

Or, could it be something as simple as you having started your GPS device into the segment, or stopping it before you exited the segment? I'm not sure whether Strava allows much leeway for start and end points of segments at all.

Jawgap

People are creating segments on 'hills in Portmarnock" !!!

Are hills in Portmarnock not what the rest of the world call speed bumps......

Dermot Illogical

Jawgap wrote: »

People are creating segments on 'hills in Portmarnock" !!!

Are hills in Portmarnock not what the rest of the world call speed bumps......

You have to take what you can get!

C3PO

What really drives me nuts is when I struggle to climb over 1000mts on a spin (usually by 6-7mts :rolleyes:) and when I upload to the Strava site it tells me that I've climbed 996mts ...... Arghhhhhh!

Lusk Doyle

RT66 wrote: »

Jawgap wrote: »

People are creating segments on 'hills in Portmarnock" !!!

Are hills in Portmarnock not what the rest of the world call speed bumps......

You have to take what you can get!

And you ain't gonna have that one for long buddy!!!

Morrisseeee

RT66 wrote: »

But...Strava didn't log my time for the segment. I recreated the segment from the ride and it doesn't recognise it as a duplicate.

Tell me about it, I went up Shanrahan hill (or mountain) 5.6km @ 7.1% only to see Strava or my GPS fcek it up, grrrrrrrrrrrr!!

Dermot Illogical

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

And you ain't gonna have that one for long buddy!!!

Just remember it's 2:19 you have to beat, not 2:31

Inquitus

RT66 wrote: »

Just remember it's 2:19 you have to beat, not 2:31

Its already on my very short list of KOM's attainable locally

Beasty

RT66 wrote: »

Just remember it's 2:19 you have to beat, not 2:31

It's on your list of KOMs. Have you made it private?

(just planning tomorrow's commute;))

shaungil

Cycled in with someone this morning the whole way on a few segments he beat me by 20 seconds. Stupid Strava.

I'm using an I-phone.

Cookie_Monster

I've found the odd time strava misses stuff or messes it up. But if you check it again in a few hours it's there. Maybe they just update the database proper every couple of hours and it'll get picked up.

nomdeboardie

Something like this happened to one of my uploads -> contacted Support, and they fixed it