For those that are strava users, and swim with a watch such as the garmin 910xt, you are no doubt frustrated that strava calculates your average pace based on overall time rather than moving time. This means that many people are reluctant to upload because your pace looks slow
I’ve logged a feature request with them to fix this. If you are a strava user it would be great if you can jump in and comment/like this request in order to create a bit of pressure…
PS: Some of you will no doubt wonder why bother uploading swims to strava (since there are no KOMs etc.) - I think it’s useful a) using strava as a secondary record of all workouts, in addition to something like training peaks and b) I find it useful for teams to see what each other are doing, you can create mini contests and competitions for all 3 sports not just running and biking.
in the pool, when you’re done with an interval, hit the stop/start button to stop the time. Then, hit lap. When you’re ready to go off on your next interval, hit stop/start to start the time again. Strava shows your actual swim pace when you do this.
They are aware of the “missing” features they need in swimming. I have been harrassing them for almost 2 years now. As an orginial Strava ambassador we are sent surveys and asked frequently about what can be done to improve Strava, this is always on the top of my list. They are working on something and its on the roadmap but I was told it will be a ways off still, they wont do too much work on the swimming aspect until they have completed the current features being worked on in the “run” features.
Never hurts to get more people on this request though - the more interest that is shown, the more they will weight it accordingly in their product features roadmap.
just looked at my last swim on strava, out of curiosity. it was 2400 yards, and shows an elapsed time of 38:00, or 1:34 avg. pace. It doesn’t look like the workout time is screwed up. What am I missing (other than the ability to swim fast)?
just looked at my last swim on strava, out of curiosity. it was 2400 yards, and shows an elapsed time of 38:00, or 1:34 avg. pace. It doesn’t look like the workout time is screwed up. What am I missing (other than the ability to swim fast)?
Assuming that you did not swim the 2400 straight but rather, just for example, did say 24 x 100 leaving on the 1:45, then your total time in the pool was 42:00 rather than 38:00. I think that is Alex’s point:)
it’s utterly worthless on strava unless you’re doing an OWS or 1 long set. Thankfully garmin connect is really good in this regard. I think garmin dropped the ball on making it a social site. If they had focused on that more, strava might not exist. Just my opinion.
Multisportsdad: hitting start at the beginning and lap at the beginning/end of each interval is a much better option (when using garmin connect)…as it shows you your data for each interval and how long you rested in between (in case you didn’t know this). That’s where strava is awful. It just takes your total time and distance and calculates your average pace. The only time is is useful is when you do 1 long continuous set.
my set was 8x300, with about 30 sec RI
so, the 38 minutes displayed on Strava was my ‘swim time’ not the total time in the pool
I thought the OP was concerned about showing the total time in the pool, and not the swim time.
The other big issue I have is with OWS - the “time” seems to be calculated as “time spent faster than a certain pace” (2:00/100yds maybe?), and that number is what is displayed, and is what “Avg Speed” is based on. So for my recent IM swim, it shows an elapsed time of 1:28:02, but a “Moving Time” / “Time” of 23:56, and as a result, an “Avg Speed” of 31s/100yds. Was swimming / moving constantly, never stopping, just… not incredibly fast. As this is a common OW swim pace for me, my OW swims are all way off on their time & pace for my Strava files.
Okay, here is my issue and my assumption is that I have something wrong in the settings or some sort of user error. I hit a quick swim workout this morning with a warm up, some drill work, then a main set of 1x300, 1x200, 1x100, 1x300, 1x200, 1x100 and finally 1x300 before cooling down. When I view “laps” it shoes my splits correctly:
But, when I go to the entire swim analysis, it has my pace during one of my longer intervals at a 1:45, which we can see from above was not the case. My longest interval was 300 and was swam around a 1:30.
I honestly don’t care what my total overall swim pace is or what it looks like on Strava, because I am only adding my swims to add to the training log because I count training hours, but it would be nice to see how my pace fluctuated in the middle of some longer sets (ie first 25 to last 25 for example)
I’ve sent them a note too. They say it’s too hard to fix. All I do is manually enter my total split time and distance. I never log kicking or wall time anyway so I don’t really care if my 60 minutes in the pool looks like 45 minutes.
Actually I was wondering the same thing. Did you do the rest of the workout from the opposite end of the pool?
If you are looking for a community to challenge and compare your swim sets, just start posting on the Monthly swim log. Lots of good cyber competition goes on there.
I’ll take a look this weekend and see why elapsed time is being used.
