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Elevation gain??? Strava random.

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JosterHalf Marathon
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I just noticed that Strava gave me elevation gain over 1,000 feet! I’d be amazed if it was 50 as I was just looping a field. How does that happen? The time, route and distance are accurate.

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AlMorrHalf Marathon

Strava thinks you climed a mountain on your run, just a error that can happen.

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misswobbleMarathon

I had an error with gps on the Nike app yesterday. It skipped 1 km I thought it was awarding me dead fast splits 🌪🏃‍♀️

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linda9389AdministratorMarathon

How strange! Was there a bridge nearby? Have you had a look at the strava elevation profile - does it spike somewhere maybe? Do you get the same data if you manually plot the route in strava, or in something else?

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JosterHalf Marathon

Thank you for the tip. Didn’t even think to look at elevation profile! It’s random! Shows me dropping off a cliff to -650 feet just at 0.5 miles in! How odd. No bridges nearby..... oh well. It doesn’t matter, I was just (and still am) a bit baffled how it recorded that! Nike recorded 37m elevation gain which is probably about right as the field has a “slope”.

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linda9389AdministratorMarathon

Very odd! Were they both getting gps from the same device, or was one from a watch and one from a phone?

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JosterHalf Marathon in reply tolinda9389

Both on my phone! Strava often does odd things, Nike is more reliable and I have 4G everywhere so signal not an issue. Oh well, not stressed about it - not doing any related challenges that have been messed up at least!

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linda9389AdministratorMarathon in reply toJoster

Yup! That's just weird then 😂

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