Another reason why Strava setting its own elapsed time is bonkers: Just went on a 7 day hike to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. The strategy for completion is “pole pole” or going very slowly to acclimate to the altitude changes. All my hikes (each day recorded separately) show up in Strava as HOURS less than it actually took to complete the day’s mileage. For example, on the first day we hiked 6.3 miles in about 5:06 moving time (6:20 elapsed time). Strava has moving time of 3:38 - almost twice as fast as I actually moved. On summit night, when we were moving the slowest, it has our moving time as just over 2 hours when in fact it took TEN HOURS.

For what its worth, I have the same problem with the Garmin Edge 1040, Strava consistently adds a minute on to every ride and most of them are nonstop out in the country with no traffic lights no pauses.

However, this does not happen when I record with the Garmin watches, Strava does not add time. Why the difference for the different types of device?

User Community: Your calculations of moving time are not accurate. We don’t want the time our GPS was paused counted as moving time.  That’s why we pause it.

Strava:  You’re all wrong. We’re right, we know better than you and your GPS when you were moving, and we’re not going to change it or let you modify your data.

It was even more ridiculous on this occasion:

1. It was a nonstop ride with no pauses
2. I recorded it simultaneously with a garmin watch and garmin edge. They both read the same times at the end of the ride. The watch time was displayed correctly by Strava whereas it added a minute to the garmin edge time. This seems to be a consistent practice where Strava adds time to a nonstop cycle, presumably for nonexistent pauses, when displaying a garmin edge activity, but not when displaying a garmin watch activity. 

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But mine isn’t, I still have this problem that strava decides to add random moving time.

Also for me the moving time is very often just wrong. I have activities where the moving time is < ½ of the elapsed time, even though I didn’t do breaks. Simply because in the high mountains I move very slowly and then strava just filters that out. We need an option to show elapsed time instead of moving time, or an option to define every activity as a race (like we can do for runs). See https://communityhub.strava.com/ideas/add-the-option-to-display-elapsed-time-on-activities-and-calculate-metrics-on-elapsed-time-6510/index4.html