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On Tuesday noon I went for a ride which I estimated to be about 10 miles + -. I started Strava, RWGPS and my Apple series 9 watch. I noted that Strava and RWGPS were paused.
Horrors! Strava showed 1.8 miles and was finished as the map showed.RW GPS showed 8.9 miles and was paused. The Apple Watch showed about about 8.9 miles also
But I had stopped the watch as I had finished the ride.
That was not the first time Strava ended a ride before it was actually finished.
So you see Strava is quite unreliable. Other niggling things for example I did a 33 mile ride in January. It labeled that ride has the ride with the greatest distance to that point since then I’ve had several other rides which went further, but that road is still called my longest another thing when I walk I use one of two pairs of shoes. One is the Brooks. And the other is the orthofeet boot.
I can save the BROOKS as my equipment, and I can even find Orthofeet listed but clicking on it and save does nothing.
Strava has lots of neat things, but if it can’t do the simplest which is maintaining distance traveled - who needs it?

Why does Strava have a Resume and auto pause?

So as usual with Strava I start my activity by pressing RECORD. It goes to PAUSE . When I am finally walking it goes to RESUME and begins recording.
But not today. Today it went through the above but for some reason it STOPed. So I FINISHed, pressed RECORD It then went to PAUSE which it did briefly and then went to STOP . I tested the process again and once again it just went to STOP.
Finally it righted it self and behaved normally.
PHEW!
So in a nutshell , STRAVA is just stopping in mid activity! It’s running-and then it stops!’