pharmaboy
Eats Squid
Strava is accurate in situations that are appropriate and when you know how it works.
It is unlikely to be accurate enough on a 1min section but above that it is fine if you set your recording intervals to 1 second. Further you should start it on a straight and finish it on a straight with good sky view not heavy canopy.
Where it doesn't work as well is with twisty tracks because it runs a good 15 m or so allowance in position to assume you are on a track, so also picks up some parallel tracks.
If you think a segment finishes at point A, then you ride 4 m past point A and expect that's always going to finish that segment, you're dreaming. So setup start and stop points where there is some speed and only light tree cover and you will get accuracy down to the settings - garmins can be set to 1 sec increments, and that's exactly. The accuracy you will get under those circumstances.
Yes I've been riding with mates and had different sets of times, but I can tell you in my own trails where I know precisely where each segment starts and finishes, it has never been surprising how times have worked.
Just looking at leaderboards should tell you that fast people always end up at the top, and egotists always complain that strava doesn't work because they think they are fastest. ;d
It is unlikely to be accurate enough on a 1min section but above that it is fine if you set your recording intervals to 1 second. Further you should start it on a straight and finish it on a straight with good sky view not heavy canopy.
Where it doesn't work as well is with twisty tracks because it runs a good 15 m or so allowance in position to assume you are on a track, so also picks up some parallel tracks.
If you think a segment finishes at point A, then you ride 4 m past point A and expect that's always going to finish that segment, you're dreaming. So setup start and stop points where there is some speed and only light tree cover and you will get accuracy down to the settings - garmins can be set to 1 sec increments, and that's exactly. The accuracy you will get under those circumstances.
Yes I've been riding with mates and had different sets of times, but I can tell you in my own trails where I know precisely where each segment starts and finishes, it has never been surprising how times have worked.
Just looking at leaderboards should tell you that fast people always end up at the top, and egotists always complain that strava doesn't work because they think they are fastest. ;d
