So I just finished a 70 mile ride on a great winter day. Full sun and about 40 degrees. Lots of gain, appropriate clothing and nutrition so I made good time. I checked strava once (18 miles in) to check my route and went on my way. I finished the ride on strava and saved it, and, arg! There's a straight line from the point where I'd checked the route to where I finished the ride. Bummed out. So. Has anyone else done this? I've been using the app for a couple of months and am leary about fiddling with it mid-route for fear that this might happen. I do check it occasionally to see that its recording, and it typically reads "auto-paused." I particularly worry when there's an interruption like a phone call. Thats why I checked it a second time today (a phone call) and saw that I had apparently stopped it some 40 miles previous, but I'm not quite sure how I stopped it or why it didn't start recording again as it typically does when it reads auto-paused. How exactly do I restart the app if I accidentally stop it during a ride? I have done that before, "stopped" it as opposed to it being "auto-paused" and it makes me nervous, and thinking that the only next step is to terminate the ride and save it. Hope I'm making this clear.

Any suggestions, experience or advice appreciated!

It has happened to me on several occasions using older versions of the Cyclemeter app. Their support people told me that it was a GPS parsing issue that caused the app to stop. When you reached your final destination and noticed the app was stopped, starting it again would cause the GPS to turn back on and mark your current location. Since it didn't track you from the point where it stopped, it creates a straight line from that point to your current location. You may want to contact Strava support and explain what happened to you and send them a screen shot or site link of/to the ride. You may also want to make sure that you have the latest version of the software and also the latest version of any firmware for sensors you may be using. They can also cause the app to stop in mid ride. Hope this helps you out.

There was a discussion earlier about Strava using a red arrow to start recording, then some bright person came up with the idea to use a red circle to start Strava, and another red circle to stop Strava.

I manually turn the screen off when I'm not looking at the phone, so in theory to re-activate, it requires both pushing the button and a finger sweep, thus reducing false activations.

I read your post again and I'm assuming that you are talking about something like this:

Route should show this,


But shows this instead.


If this is your problem, it's caused by what I posted earlier.

Thanks for the responses!

Yes John, the app connected the two points and drew a line, like in the second shot. And apparently there's no direct way to edit, amend or change the ride. Which seems reasonable, but still disappointing to lose the ride.

I don't think that I stopped the app. I will definitely be more mindful next time, and less bugged about messing with it while it's recording. It stopped right where I checked it so I might have inadvertently stopped it.

There was a recent strava update that was supplied and I did download it, with no functional or cosmetic changes noted. Also, the firmware for the phone was recently updated. I think that Auto-pause did not restart. I turned it off and I think that I will manually start and stop it from here out.

I wanted to attach a screenshot. How do I do that? Thanks again!

Do you know if the app would detect walking though? Would a 3 min stop at a convenience store turn into a 3 min ride at +,- 1 mph if not paused? Yea, I guess it would. Hence, the importance of pausing.

Strava has an auto-pause option, but I think it does pick up some of the walking, I try to pause it when I stop, but sometimes I can see a knot where I've browsed around a store.

Strava does have a crop function. So if you want to cut something out of the beginning or end of a ride, you can just crop it. I don't think it allows you to cut something out of the middle.

I tried the Strava app, along with almost every cycling app available for an iPhone, and didn't really like any of them that much. Of all the apps I tried, I decided to use Cyclemeter, which has more data and customization than any of the apps out there that I've used. I initially thought they had way too much data and settings on the app, but now I wish they had a few more. If you put your rides on Strava, like I do, it will automatically share your ride with Strava, and other sites, at the end of the ride so you don't have to do it manually. It also does live tracking, similar to a Garmin, and you can set it to send your data by distance or time, which I don't think Garmin gives you those options. The only thing it doesn't do right now is turn-by-turn, but they say they are working on it for a future release.

I am still using a older Garmin Edge 705 or a newer 22 hour battery life Lezyne Super GPS and an am still manually uploading to Strava. I do use my smart phone with Instagram linked to Strava for photos i might want to include with my strava rides.

I have at times turned off the recordings and lost part of the ride, or if I turn the system on later, I will get the same effect a straight line from turning off location to starting again location. I tend to edit the ride, cropping the route where I stopped recording the ride, and eliminate the straight line section to the end of the ride.

I have a dozen segments I know where to start, and where they end that I use as a climbing improvement tool. As I hate to climb, but keep trying to improve. I have several segments that are quite important to me to include or avoid depending upon my feelings in the early part of my weekly rides.

Tis funny looking back the last 5 years, I make more recording errors after my climb segments than in other locations/rides.

JR

Although my experience was quite short with Strava... in the short time I also found that I was pushing buttons that I thought were the correct ones and getting completely different results. Granted I may have just been a new user and doing something wrong but after the 2nd and 3rd time I decided to scrap the app. Again, nothing against Strava. It may have been my fault but personally I found it a little quirky.