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I did a park run this morning.

It should be my 2nd fastest 5k.

The distance registered as 4.95km to start with, and then the "correct distance" option only increased it by 1 metre.

I know it will seem silly to some, but this is my best run in months and I'm frustrated it has not registered as 5km, and feel there should be a way around this.

I get that strava want to avoid people cheating, but this was a park run. 90 other people recorded it at the same time as me. Is there no way AI could identify it as a park run, and I could be allowed to adjust distance to 5km?

I don't think I'm the only one to be frustrated in similar situations.

The question is whether it really is a 5k - unfortunately, not all race organisers actually measure the distance with certified tools, and instead only e.g. plan the route through an online mapping app. (There's an infamous “half marathon” here which is in reality only about 20k, so one can't really achieve a HM PB there. 🫤) If the “correct distance” feature didn't take you over 5k, the course was most probably shorter I’m afraid. 

Thanks for your reply.

I know in a few weeks I won't care, and from now on I guess I just need to leave the gps running for a while and trim as needed.

It's just disappointing in the short term 😔

I totally understand - it's a bummer. Though from the bigger perspective, you probably want Strava to keep track of your progress as accurately as possible - if an unrealistic PB is set, it would skew your progress data. 

It might help to ask the parkrun organisers to measure the course properly - if they're reasonable they will. 

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