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I just rode a trail I know for a solid fact I've done at least four or five times all the way through, since being a committed uploader - and Strava thinks I've only done it twice. Anyone else get this?
Yes - it could either be your device isn't quite picking up the beginning / end of the trail quite right, or the segment itself was created using bad GPS data... or both!
There is a way you can see segments which don't quite match a ride - might show you where the issue is.
Yes, really annoying when you've killed yourself trying to get a KOM and then strava thinks you were ten feet to the left of where you actually were and doesn't even recognise it as an attempt. More likely a GPS issue on previous passes over that trail.
It's a totally random and variable thing. If you look at some off road segment routes you'll find they have been recorded in a way that actually bears very little resemblance to the actual route. So in those cases you may have ridden the right route and recorded it correctly on your device - Garmin, phone,whatever - but because whoever created the segment originally never recorded it right you may not get matched to it.
You also get the situation where rides are matched to segments where the segment is a trail properly off road - roots, drops offs etc but people are matched to having completed it when they've actually ridden the parallel fire road.
There's one near me which is actually very twisty and undulating in a trench for much of it but where riders on the tarmaced road some distance from it are getting matched to that segment. Needless to say, their times hold all the top spots by a big margin.
IMO, the bottom line is that for many off road segments times and KOMs are meaningless.
If any of those Segments are within the Safe Zone around your house, it also wont register them.
It's a long running issue. There was a tool called SNAP that tried to fix this but I think it broke when Strava changed the API.
IMO, the bottom line is that for many off road segments times and KOMs are meaningless.
I got a random KOM a few years ago, didn't recognize the segment at 1st but turned out to be a short climb in the local woods. I've never ridden all the way up it in my life but apparently I did it in 15 seconds on the day in question when I actually got off right at the bottom and pushed the whole way up, probably taking 3 minutes or more. It's a load of bollox