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A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night (www.runnersworld.com)
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Wtf is strava?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's a social network based around exercise. You can share your runs and whatnot.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Apparently, some kind of runner's tracking service?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I tried it a few years ago. It was expensive compared to popular alternatives, and it didn't directly integrate with my mainstream chest strap anymore. You still had to run multiple apps to collect your data, then go upload it to Strava separately. And that was it's new policy at the time; previously, it did support heart rate monitors directly, and I guess they decided "nah, that's not what we're here for." No idea what it does now because switching to a much cheaper app gave me more functionality. I think its shtick was the training feedback. So that tells you what it was trying to be, at least back then--a personal coaching app, not a comprehensive workout tracker.

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