Strava anomaly – what am I doing wrong?

I recently joined Strava and recorded my first ride. This is on an e-bike so the normal cycle segments didn’t appear so I created a few of my own. For some reason the first two segments appear duplicated on this list although all the rest only appear once.

I only rode the route once so it is not a historic entry. I also like the way it thinks I only hold 2nd place despite being the only rider to have ever ridden the section and being listed as 1st place.

I am not overly concerned as I am riding for pleasure and fitness rather than KOM glory but it would be useful to know how to stop it happening so the data I do see is at least accurate.

Any ideas

The “2” badge shown on your screenshot tells you that it’s your own second-best time through the segment. When you go quicker it will show “PR” for Personal Record.
Although if you’ve only Strava’d it on one occasion, then I’m as baffled as you.

And Strava data is inherently inaccurate. I tracked a ride recently on two devices simultaneously as an experiment. I got a 14-second difference between devices through one sub-1 minute segment 🤔

From Strava support this sort of works but you have to do it a couple of times as sometimes it adds duplicates too

Alright, at least figured out how to fix this for an individual activity:

>> Open Activity

>> Edit Activity

>> Change Activity Type to ‘Canoe’ (or anything other than Ride)

>> Save and wait 1 minute

>> Change Activity Type back to Ride

Waht happens if you click on your icon at top R of the screen – does it happen to show 2 rides

or from within that ride, near the top left, look for “flybys”. Has it counted you as riding with yourself (2 devices recording??)

… and I wonder if the lack of KoM is because you can’t have one if you’re the only rider. As a result it’s ignoring the “faster” of your 2 results but is still granting you 2nd place for the other

(I reckon later you’ll find that others will have ridden it but it takes a while for the leaderboard to populate)

Bothering to do it at all…..

Entry to motorway – so is that you rding down the slip road then ?

Need more creativity and less correlation with reality in your segment names. Preferably with a twist of profanity or other form of crudeness.

I had the same issue when I created a new segment last week. Refreshing achievements didn’t fix it, but toggling the activity as described by WorldClassAccident did.

And Strava data is inherently inaccurate. I tracked a ride recently on two devices simultaneously as an experiment. I got a 14-second difference between devices through one sub-1 minute segment

That’s not strava, thats the GPS data it gets from whatever is recording. As an experiment I used my garmin running watch, my edge 1000 and my phone and all 3 were massively different. I would have expected the 2 Garmin devices to be similar but they were the furthermost apart time wise for segments. Phone was somewhere in the middle.

Are both Garmin devices set to record every second?

Ive had the same issue when creating some new segments recently. It’s logged 2 attempts for the new segment with exactly the same data / times etc.

I’ve e-mailed Strava support but had no response. I’ll try changing the activity as suggested above

Are both Garmin devices set to record every second

I have tested all options – both smart, both 1 sec, 1 on 1 sec and the other smart and then the other way around. It doesn’t seem to make much difference as they are always different. Sometimes the watch is faster and sometimes the edge. I cant work it out so now just take Strava data with a punch of salt.

And if you check them on Garmin Connect, is the difference there as well? Might be something to do with Strava algorithm if they do match in Connect. If they don’t match then which one is quicker and use that all the time! 😉

Bothering to do it so Live Link will work and they can find my body when I next have a spectacular

I am not worried about per second accuracy, just a general trend of improvement over time.

Only had one device, my phone, recording.

Lack of imagination on naming – guilty as charged but wanted to be able to find them on the map when I had forgotten which was which. I always get muddled with Starwars, Lefty Left and Righty Right up in Lordswood.

That activity refresh has just moved the duplication do a different pair of segments so now I have different 2nd places showing.

It does this to me as well, I solved it by setting my default upload to ‘public’ rather than ‘private’.

Private uploads never worked, segments didn’t appear etc.

Garmin connect is different too so must be on the device or GPS side.

Like I say, I am not too bothered by it. I only know about the differences because a while back the edge had low battery so I started the watch to capture the ride when the edge died. The edge didn’t die so I had a ride from both devices and could see differences. I then tried a few more options and compared it to the phone.

This time I got the correct number of segments but managed to get a personal 2nd Best time on a segment I have only ever ridden once and where I am showing as the All Time number 1 of 3.

Their system is failing I suspect

If you’re new to strava and ride from home then you should set up some privacy zones so we can’t all see WCA Towers on the map – otherwise you’ll have a queue of engineers wanting to check your shed for starters.

Profile/Settings/Privacy Controls/privacy zones – strava then crops the public view of your ride to the edge of the privacy zone(s) and nobody can track you down.

Hi – i have set up privacy zone but thanks for the tip

Also don’t post pics of your bike or give proper details of bike…

Bike descriptions are Lecxie and Flixie so hopefully not likely to register on too many auto searches