Elevation gain??? Strava random.

[Joster]

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.

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

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

[misswobble Marathon]

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

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

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?

[Joster Half 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”.

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

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

[Joster Half Marathon in reply to linda9389]

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!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Joster]

Yup! That's just weird then 😂