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Wild segment time differences

PaulMiller
over 3 years ago

Went on a ride with a friend yesterday, and was comparing our results. During the ride, he led becuase it was a route he knew. I followed and was never more than a second or two behind. But on some segments Strava is showing as much as two minutes time difference. Realise this could be due to inaccuracies in GPS recording. We both have Garmin Edge 830s that we used to record the ride. Is the accuracy really this bad or is something else going on? 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    If you took a break right near where a segment ends (or starts) one device can keep recording and the other might decide the segment is done (or hasn't started yet).  That's the only plausible reason I can think of without something being amiss.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to PaulMiller

    In addition to what Cranky K. Suggests, you might want to compare auto pause settings.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    There is no "pausing" a segment. Strava subtracts the segment start timestamp from the segment finish timestamp. So if you both stopped, you both should still have the same time.

    It seems very unlikely to have happened multiple times, but... One of you is probably using "smart" interval recording and the other isn't, or maybe if you both were. Then if you had a habit of stopping at the end of a segment, MAYBE one of you ended up with an earlier data point saying you finished.

    Really the only way to tell would be to analyze the FIT files themselves and look at timestamps.