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Lost GPS Signal : Environmental factors can often cause your GPS signal to be lost and some time later re-acquired. In cases like this, the pre-and post-signal-loss points will be treated just like any other two subsequent points (although more time has elapsed between them) and will be connected with a straight line. Cases of signal loss like this can cause your activity to report less distance than you actually traveled or not to match segments that you would have otherwise matched. Here is what GC wanted (shown already with the valid padded zero entries): secs,cad,hr,km,kph,nm,watts,alt,lon,lat,headwind,slope,temp,interval,lrbalance,lte,rte,lps,rps,smo2,thb,o2hb,hhbsecs,cad,hr,km,kph,nm,watts,alt,lon,lat,headwind,slope,temp,interval,lrbalance,lte,rte,lps,rps,smo2,thb,o2hb,hhb just that we’re addicted to data. Besides being useful for training, digital apps can actually make cycling more satisfying. Anyone who’s ever used a notebook to record how many miles they’ve ridden knows how affirming and motivating it is to keep a ride log. As Eyal points out, “Athletes want to know their effort matters.” These apps, he says, allow us to feel that “all that sweating is not going to waste.” We use the term "bad GPS data" to describe any circumstance where your GPS device records location (or other) data that does not accurately represent your activity. Bad GPS data can result in your activities on Strava having missing or extra distance recorded; segments not matched at allor recorded inaccurately;inaccurate elevation data;inaccurate achievements such as estimated best efforts;and more.

Your device may have simply lost a connection to GPS satellites and did not record any data. Your Strava activity may be missing a map, show a straight line connecting your start and endpoints, or was automatically tagged as an indoor activity. recent trip to Europe, Bokanev had a chance to ride the sportive editions of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Both rides were extraordinary—among his best cycling experiences ever. But he was on a borrowed bike, without any gadgets. “There was a moment where I really wished I had a power meter so I could know how much power I put out there,” Bokanev told me. “And then it’s like, ‘Oh, screw that.’ ” He laughs. “Thankfully, it was just a fleeting thought.” Because we're dealing with extremely fast signals requiring precise detection, any slight inaccuracy in the signal's reception, or disturbance to the signal itself, can translate to a significant dislocation of your reported position. Consequently, environmental factors such as dense trees, steep hillsides, tall buildings, or even heavy cloud cover can impact or even interrupt the travel of the GPS signal between your device and the satellites. Examples of bad GPS dataBut not everything is hunky dory in the religion of Strava. Too much data can lead to people over exerting themselves as they look for marginal gains at every possible juncture. The community feature can lead to over competitiveness, people desperately trying to get one over on their mates. In fact this user is happy to admit my first foray into Strava left me feeling exposed. I didn't allow a single person to follow me until a few months into my journey. Ask yourself: Do our rides shape the kind of data and pictures we come home with? Or has the goal of getting data and pictures changed the shape of our rides? While Strava does its best to optimize our data analysis by ignoring the most obviously inaccurate data, in the end, we can only make the most out of the data provided to us from the GPS device. Put another way, when a device records bad GPS data, the only option that Strava has to improve it is to ignore portions of that bad data. Unfortunately, when, for whatever reason, a portion of your activity isn't recorded by GPS, it is not possible for us to "fill in" the missing data or "correct" the bad data. However, you do have a few good options to get credit for your efforts and manage the way that GPS data is represented by activities: Using the fitdump tool returned much more data, around 2370 data points, which gave me more hope since my run was ~38:00 minutes long, (38 * 60 = 2280) You have the option to crop your activity to simply cut out the most affected parts of your activity if the bad GPS data occurred at the beginning or end of your ride or run. Here is some more information about the crop tool.

The answer is - it wouldn’t be possible. And I’ve come to realise that this is totally fine. In the ‘Real World’, where blood, sweat and tears are shed upon the trails, if it happened, it happened regardless of whether it’s recorded on your watch or phone. What matters is you physically went out and trained. The real evidence of training - and the only evidence that matters - is your performance on race day and your ability to live with a healthy body and mind. RunKeeper (and its premium version Runkeeper Go) is more focused on coaching and training you towards your running goals than just a training log with a huge dataset to analyse like Strava. This makes it much more suited to beginner and intermediate runners looking for guidance and training help without going so far as hiring a coach or personal trainer. Indeed, digitization has added a new competitive dynamic to cycling. Seeing what others are doing—how fast someone rode a particular segment, or how many hours they put in this week—can motivate us to ride more ourselves. And knowing that our friends can see where we’ve ridden, how far, and how fast—online training programs, such as TrainerRoad, even allow you to share your power tests—can push us to ride harder. Look at how routine it’s become for us to document everything. I’ve seen dudes whip out their phones for selfies in the middle of a road race, and even social rides start with a chorus of chirps from Garmins and Wahoos. Every 60 seconds, according to Strava, another six cyclists sign up for the app.always rehashed our epic adventures, in loving detail, and often over beers or coffee. But thanks to digital technologies, our ritual recaps can now occur virtually, anywhere and anytime. There are many factors that contribute to the accuracy of your GPS data - and it's important to keep in mind that no data is perfect; in fact, there is some degree of error inherent in any GPS recording. Ignoring (for now) environmental factors, different devices have different qualities of GPS hardware and software - meaning that even if your device is working at its peak performance, there will always be a margin of error in the accuracy of its recording. If an entry matches the expression above, you can rearrange the different comma separated fields in the text, with the following search and replace formula: in 39min ? I’m not a good runner but that aint right. And more interestingly: there is more data to the run than is represented in the distance.