Accused of cheating on Strava

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AndrewS Jun 2017 12:01am, 24 Jun 2017 544 posts	0 AndrewS Fenners- Nailed it! How sad has your life got to be to get hung up about such things. strokes imaginary beard
Meglet Jun 2017 7:38am, 24 Jun 2017 18,157 posts	0 Meglet I've seen obvious cheating where people with male names and pictures are atop the women's leaderboards. That's pretty sad that someone wants to do that to make themselves look good as there's no real prizes.
Ultracat Jun 2017 8:13am, 24 Jun 2017 11,642 posts	0 Ultracat I have seen folks on top of running leaderboards with very quick times and they probably cycled it. Unless they go back and edit the activity they seem to remain there.
Meglet Jun 2017 8:15am, 24 Jun 2017 18,160 posts	0 Meglet Yes it happens. But most of us shrug our shoulders and move on. I don't think I'd bother reporting it, but some people obviously do.
Autumnleaves Jun 2017 8:20am, 24 Jun 2017 10,738 posts	0 Autumnleaves On a slightly different point, one of my quicker runners has admitted he struggles to run slow and easy runs - as suggested by my (or indeed other) coaching plans because of what they will be recorded as on Strava.
FergusG Jun 2017 9:25am, 24 Jun 2017 1,435 posts	0 FergusG AL - Surely he could mark them as Private or title them slow/easy/recovery if his ego is that fragile?
Yorkshire Pie Jun 2017 9:50am, 24 Jun 2017 13,252 posts	0 Yorkshire Pie My commutes upload as runs because I use a running watch (I have a proper cycling garmin for proper bike rides but don't want to take it into work every day). I do edit them pretty much straight away but wish ~~strava~~ would spot that they are rides like fetch does! (Incidentally on one route I take on the commuter I go down a big hill very fast. The running watch has lost the file twice recently on the same route. I am starting to wonder whether it's because it isn't designed to cope with 30mph+)
Meglet Jun 2017 10:49am, 24 Jun 2017 18,161 posts	0 Meglet There's a great article somewhere about the hidden meanings of your ride/run title.
Fragile Do Not Bend Jun 2017 10:59am, 24 Jun 2017 1,939 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend I agree, it's rather sad that some people care so much about what's on Strava. At least I'm in no danger of bothering anyone with my times!
magnumpti Jun 2017 9:23am, 25 Jun 2017 238 posts	0 magnumpti Turns out that it's because of my watch being unable to record cycling activities so everything was uploaded as a run. They even told me this so why they didn't say that in the first place I don't know. I had three choices, upload everything manually which I can't be arsed to do, mark everything as private which I can't be arsed to do or edit the activity as soon as I've done it which I can't be arsed to do, after all Fetch is clever enough to know. Think I'll just continue to leave things as they are, if they want to delete my account that's up to them!