Editing strava

Hello all! Just fin a very hard week 6 run 2, my lungs wanted to crawl out of my chest but my legs could have gone on forever! It was hills and fields and wood terrain today so

I was slipping and sliding in mud a lot too 🙄anyway I wanted to ask if anyone edits their strava to show just the run time itself (pace etc) not including the warm up and cool down walks x I think I may do it as it would tell me exactly my pace then, I feel the walks Re cheating me out of a better pace if that makes sense? Or do I need to include them for any other reason? Any advice appreciated!

[Instructor57 Graduate]

I track my run on a Garmin watch , start it after the warmup walk and stop it as I stop running.

This is then uploaded to strava 🙂👍

[Hidden in reply to Instructor57]

Oh right I could do that on my polar, thanks

[Instructor57 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

You can see it on my post from today .

As you say, you have a true pace then 👍

[Hidden in reply to Instructor57]

Yes that’s what I thought x I want to know how I am imroving. And the current record is inc all walks and from tomo I don’t even have walk breaks so want to completely edit those out and just see the real run pace x it’s prob crap but at least I will know it’s not affected by the walking then(no excuses then! )

[Instructor57 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

The other way of course would be just start Strava recording as you start to run and stop it when you stop , but I find my watch is more accurate .

Don't know what model polar you have so don't know if you can upload the data to strava or not

[Hidden in reply to Instructor57]

A polar a360 pr something and it does upload to strava x when I graduate I am buying myself a polar ignite, it’s a posher prettier version that I will have earned imo! I think I will start strava as I start running as then the polar will

Record the whole time exercising so I get my cals recorded on there but I can get my pace off the strava x hope it works anyway ha

[Instructor57 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Yes, doing that should work ,

I have a very old polar I used over 23 years ago , it s still fine but probably lacking in features ,

[Jools2020 Graduate]

It IS possible to edit Strava as you describe, but I would just start to record the longer runs that you are about to start. I did record some of the earlier ones, but never looked at them much because apart from the 20 minute run, the data from the shorter runs wasn’t really helpful.

[Papillon17 Graduate]

I did not bother I started the timer after the warm up walk and would stop before the warm down walk. Then on the longer runs would just start at the running. I now record the warm up walk as a walk change Strava to run and start run then return to walk for warm down walk.