6 types of Strava users everyone loves to hate

Strava is a great app. It’s a training log that also helps you keep in touch with your endurance athlete friends. As with anything positive, though, there are downsides to Strava, and a lot of those negatives come in the form of users. There are a lot of ways people can be annoying on the app, but we’ve narrowed this list down to six types of Strava users who annoy everyone who follows them.

The “…with Sandy” user

We all know this person. The Strava user who is too proud to post a slower ride or run (as if anyone is going to judge them for it), so they have to include the “with [insert training buddy’s name here]” disclaimer any time they do a workout with someone else. Listen, everyone who follows you knows your average performance, so no one is going to care if you post a workout that is slower than your usual level. Drop the “with.”

The constant poster

Strava is meant to be an activity log for actual workouts. You’re allowed to post walks, but why are you sharing activities like “walk to the store” or a three-kilometre ride home from work? Are you expecting your followers to give you kudos for these? Better yet, would you give someone kudos for their 0.54-kilometre walk to the mailbox? Probably not, so why are you posting it on your page?

The only fast workouts user

If you’re training properly, you should have multiple easy days in your schedule every week. And yet, for some reason, there are people who only ever share fast swims, rides, and runs. These people are completing their easy workouts, but they’re deleting them (or not recording them in the first place). Guys, Strava isn’t that serious. Post your slow days.

The “easy day” poster

On the topic of easy days, there are some Strava users who post fast and impressive workouts and then title or caption them by saying something along the lines of “took it easy today.” Stop. You’re fast and that’s great, but don’t act like that 18-minute 5K wasn’t fast.

The pauser

You do realize that we can see if you’ve paused your watch during your workout, right? There are Strava users out there who apparently pause their watches every time they stop, whether that’s at a stoplight or for a breather or any other reason. Your moving time on the app isn’t impressive if your elapsed time shows that you took 10 minutes of cumulative rest.

The reposter

The people who are interested in your workouts are going to follow you on Strava. The people who follow you on Instagram or Facebook or wherever else but don’t follow you on Strava probably not only don’t care about how fast you ran today, but it’s likely that they also have no idea what a fast result is (to many people, a 50-minute 10K and a 35-minute 10K are equally impressive). Post on Strava and quit reposting to other social media pages.