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There is no reward for getting the best time. Also, the people that you beat are extremely motivated to investigate and flag your activity; it will look pretty
by jerlam 2y ago
There is no reward for getting the best time. Also, the people that you beat are extremely motivated to investigate and flag your activity; it will look pretty obvious that it was ridden on an e-bike due to incorrect / missing data like heart rate and wattage.
I have the record on a short inconsequential running course near me. I occasionally get a notification that someone beat my record and I am forced to look at it; it is always someone on a bike or car, and I flag it and it eventually goes away. Also, my own record activity has been flagged multiple times despite it only being slightly faster than the second place finisher - I no longer bother trying to contest it. The joke is on the flagger since I have run the exact same record time, several times, so I still have the course record.
- bigiain 2y agoNot everyone is as chill about that as you. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/06/20/a-quantified-self-fatality-family-says-cyclists-death-is-fault-of-ride-tracking-company-strava/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/06/20/a-quanti...
- recursive 2y agoIt's even possible to do dumb stuff in pursuit of a personal best without using an app at all. But it should be noted that the Strava user in question doesn't seem to have been cheating. For some reason, they were trying to set a legitimate score in an ill-advised way. There's no evidence here that cheating in Strava is a problem. Is Strava promoting unsafe riding? Maybe. I don't really think so. But it's not connected to the cheating question.