
How are people doing 500–600+ km in a 17-day challenge?
Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to Strava and I'm genuinely curious about something I saw on the leaderboard.
I'm doing the 30 km challenge, and I've been walking around 15 km per session. I've been doing this for about 17 days, so seeing people with 500–600+ km absolutely blew my mind.
For example, the #1 person on my leaderboard has 601.4 km, which works out to roughly 35 km every single day for 17 days.
And just to clarify, this leaderboard is specifically for Walking & Hiking activities during August only.
I'm not trying to hate, accuse anyone of cheating, or insult anyone at all. I'm genuinely trying to understand how this works.
How does Strava calculate the challenge distance that I'm missing?
I'm new to Strava, so I'd really appreciate someone explaining how people are reaching numbers like this.