Strava Flybys

[offended by everything]

I'm sure I'm hopelessly late to the game on this. I'm primarily a Garmin Connect user but a colleague persuaded me to give Strava a spin. I don't cycle but the run feature is decent and it logs my swims as well. But this flyby thing is pretty interesting and a little stalkerish to boot. I mostly run on the Chicago lake front and a couple of local forest preserves and I almost always register multiple flybys. I was in London last week with 4 runs in Hyde Park and sure enough multiple flybys on each run. I think it's interesting to look at the profiles of those sharing the road with you. I'm starting to speculate if runners I pass on my runs are Strava users.

Maybe we've had a flyby here and didn't even know it.

[SnarlyMarly]

I have been resistant as I really don't want people to know where I bike.   Everyone says "don't start it until you are far away".    I have some acquaintances have their bikes stolen.   

Well, that and I am not very electronically connected in the last 10 years.  😂


But thinking I will connect to Strava when I am staying at someone else's home for a month🤣


When I had my bike accident this summer and flipped over a guy, it WAS pretty cool that strava sent his wife a text letting her know her man was down.   i bike a lot by myself and it would actually be a layer of protection.   A friend of mine was hit from behind...nudged....like me she can't keep up with a faster spouse and was riding alone.    There was a witness that got a license plate and the person had a prior and rope and duct tape in car.   

[Handsome Jack]

I'm going to have a look at this. I'm on Strava (Garmin Connect automagically send my workouts, run & cycle, there).

A couple of us send kudos back & forth, havent used it much other than that.

[offended by everything]

Was in Singapore last week and collected between 6 to 12 Flybys per run - a couple I have a distinct memory of seeing. It definitely adds a different dimension to being on the roads.

Never gave much thought to the safety issue but I've no bike to steal.

[offended by everything]

Most popular Strava segments for 2017

3 of 10 for the year

[Coyote Mas Loco]

Hmmm. I'm on but pretty GD obscure. Pseudonym no picture.  Phantom runner. The entire thing is a bit big brotherish/creepy but it was cool to see some flybys at races.   

[Fred]

Yeah, if I was 35 and hammering, I'd post them there.

[offended by everything]

Goofy Strava Stuff

Of note - the woman with the 3:10 marathon pushing a stroller and the Garmin Dragons.

[Coyote Mas Loco]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-map-showing-the-users-of-fitness-devices-lets-the-world-see-where-us-soldiers-are-and-what-they-are-doing/2018/01/28/86915662-0441-11e8-aa61-f3391373867e_story.html

Oops!

You'd think that someone'd be on that. Like 2 years ago when heat maps were sort of a very new thing!