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I’m sure it would be tough to have Strava automatically remove rest times from overall pace (one man’s rest might be another man’s workout), but Strava should allow me to identify rest “segments” in my uploaded workout.  Strava can then ignore them when calculating pace and give me a true average pace.  Example, I run 8x800m with 1 min standing rest - Strava will mark my pace as slower because of the 8 minutes of standing rest.  When we mark the type of run as “workout” I would think Strava could account for rests.  

Even better would be for Strava to put my splits on the main workout overview instead of having to drill into the workout.  

If it’s an outdoor run and you pause the activity in the rest time Strava doesn’t include the pauses in the average.


I get that, but pausing also stops the rest timer.  Which is needed. 


@RunnerMan27 Strava generally uses “elapsed time” and “moving time”. So even if the timer is running, as long as you're idle, it's not considered “moving”.

Having said that… we shouldn't really stop moving between intervals, ideally we should jog or at least walk, right 😃 What I usually do is creating a custom workout in the watch, so that those intervals are recorded as “work” and the jog/walk in between as “recovery”; and each is automatically marked as a lap, so that when reviewing the workout later on, I can easily see the “work” pace, and ignore the “recovery”. (This is with Apple Watch; not sure what device you're using, but I assume it will be similar with other devices.)


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