Originally Posted by
LGHT
I almost always have to "correct" my incline on strava. I use an older garmin 705 and the incline it reports is always pretty high. What I do is click on the "elevation" and expand it. At the bottom there is a link that says "correct" or something like that. Once that's pressed I wait a few minutes and it fixes the elevation. I've seen it off as much as
800-1000'. Since then I did make a few changes on the device so it measures more often, but almost every route needs to be corrected if it has more than 1000'.
Right, I don't see that option but I think that is because I use an iPhone, so they automatically throw out the elevation (despite it having a barometric altimeter). Still it's meaningless because the other guy doesn't correct his elevation. It's not a level playing field. Nor do I trust that Strava's elevation data is really accurate. For example near me they have a segment that is a Cat 3 climb which in reality is flat.