I know it is a small thing but it is one of those things that is quite annoying about Strava. You know that situation when you finish a run and notice that it is very close to a round number of miles, than you run a bit further to make it e. g. 5 miles. Then it uploads to Strava and shows as 4.99 miles in some parts of the app and 4.9 miles in other parts of the app (e. g. the training calendar). Can Strava stop doing that?
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Why Strava distance is always 0.01 mile shorter than Garmin distance?
+26Best answer by Smarties
Your philosophical stance just cost me a pb on a half marathon that i have been training for for 5 months. Garmin says 21.1km and Strava says 21.09km. What gives you the right to do this? Rounding down is just stupid. I work with data for a living and no dataset is 100% correct anyway, but you are denying athletes pb’s for a couple of meters. I trained, i cried, I covered the distance but yet you deny me a pb. Do you really think that anyone cares about your philosophical stance? Its stupid. Who is the clown making these decisions in your company? Get your act together Strava!
+1Yeah, i just checked. Had a track workout and the FIT file has a total distance of 10.000m. Strava shows it as 9.99 km. Why? Does Strava revaluate the distance from GPS?
I learned a hard lesson yesteday.
I got hit by the Strava tax on a great 10K race I ran yesteday. Garmin recorded 9,998.24 meters, which of course is less than a 10K but the Garmin said it was a 10K since there is a +/- accuracy for GPS while Strava said… no you ran 9.99 KM, have a nice day. 🤷🏻♂️😂... all I can do is laugh.
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