Originally Posted by
TenSpeedV2
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TimothyH - thank you for the valuable information. It is also good to see that it is not just me losing my mind over here in frustration trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my rides. It doesn't happen all the time, but it is enough to make me notice, and this last one just set me off. Not that I go on Strava and brag about what my ride was, but I follow a lot of faster people. This was definitely one of my better rides, average speed wise at least. So when I uploaded it, the feelings were pretty good. Then I saw what Strava said. So I uploaded a picture of the screen of my Garmin and called BS on Strava.
Training Peaks looks interesting. May give that a run and see how it is on the free end. Gathering that it is quite a bit like Strava?
Well, to be clear, I am not loosing my mind. Neither should you. It is a little frustrating and at first I thought my gear was bad. Now I just laugh at it.
Training Peaks is not a social platform. It is a serious training platform, very different. It will quantify the stress you put on your body, how well recovered you are from that stress, resulting improvements in fitness and help you understand the balance between the need to be fresh vs not loosing any fitness (tapering) going into a race. It is designed for a coach to be able to access your workouts. I was sending data from Polar to TP for over a year and hardly ever looked at it before I started using it seriously this past fall.
Free means no risk and I thought it might be helpful for you to determine whether it was Strava actually causing the problem or if your gear was somehow the cause of the problem.
-Tim-