Strava on Multi Day Rides – Etiquette

[sean_iow]

If I'm 'touring' I usually save and upload each day separately, so a 3 day ride is 3 separate rides on strava. However, on a recent 3 day trip I wanted the whole trip to be recorded as one so that's how I uploaded it. This approach meant the elapsed time is the total time from start to finish, as it would be on an ITT.

Doing it this way though does mean my longest ride for the year is actually 3 days riding so is that fair on club leaderboards? On the flip side, as it's one ride, on veloviewer it only counts as one ride towards my eddington score. In this case, if I'd saved it as 3 separate days (each one was quite long at 95,80 and 75 miles) it would of increased my eddington score to 43 from the current 42. At some point in the future (a long way in the future ) I'll have to go on 2 extra rides of minimum 75 miles to lift my score to 75 as I will have missed out on counting days 2 and 3 of that trip.

Just curious as to how other people record/upload their multi-day rides.

[ScotRoutes]

One ride per sleep for me.

[Single Speed George]

whole thing including sleeps for me (if itting anyway , sometimes if touring ,,,, its all one ride as you chose to stop allong the way .. would you have diferaint rides for before and after lunch ?

[Chicken Legs]

For analysis at a later date I prefer to save each day separately.

[Moder-dye]

One ride per day for me. Maybe more than one ride operer day if it is significantly split up for some reason such as train, ferry etc

[whitestone]

I'll do both depending on the overall ride. Some units don't like really long activities with lots of data points.

When touring I'll do one ride per day. I recorded the HT550 one ride per day as well.

ITTs that take two days or at least an overnight stop of some kind then I'll put the unit on pause when bivvying and resume the same file/activity in the morning. This year's YD300's overnight "stop" was just two hours for example - I've had longer lunch stops!

[Pickers]

One ride per day here as well when I'm off touring.
I reckon that some of the apps for joining gpx files will reduce the sampling - I joined all the rides together after this years tour to give one file for the whole route - it came up about 30 miles shorter than just adding them all together.

[Richard G]

Per sleep.

[AlasdairMc]

One ride per sleep for me.

I make a distinction between sleeps and cat naps though. Cairngorms Loop - 2 rides. GT24 - one ride.

[benp1]

I have always been one ride per day/sleep.

Apart from my 2014 WRT, which was recorded as one ride and always annoyed me

Just went onto Strava (thanks to this thread for reminding me) and there's a really neat function to split the ride into 2 or 3 sections. It was unbelievably easy!

[ianfitz]

I go by sleep too. Although some big-effort ITT rides have felt like one ride rather than multi day ones.

If I’d have finished the HT this year I would have stitched the files into one ride.

[Richpips]

I've done both. Sometimes I'll upload individual days to mine and joined gpx files to Tom's to make a single ride.

This year's longest gpx on mine was 2948 miles (34 days).

[sean_iow]

This year's longest gpx on mine was 2948 miles (34 days).

That 'ride' is as far as 65% of my mileage to date this year. If I'd spent more time riding and less looking at your great pics on instagram I'd of clocked up more

So I think the concensus is that either way is acceptable I think I'll use separate rides per sleep except on ITTs where the event is over multiple days as they are timed from start to finish non-stop.

[Trail-rat]

ive never really thought about it in the slightest.

not everything goes on strava either. hell sometimes i dont even take a GPS - or a map.... just wander aimlessly.

[Blair512]

I tend to load it as one ride per trip and do a separate lap each day so I can look back at individual days if I want to

[In Reverse]

Meh.

An overnighter will usually be one ride. Multi-day will be multiple single-day rides,usually.

I think I'm inclined to "restart" a ride once I've had a decent night's sleep/wash/feed.

[Asposium]

Generally......

Garmin Montana 610 GPS (on bars) runs continuously
Garmin Fenix (on wrist) restarts each day
Garmin inReach Explorer+, leave it alone usually on bar or in top of rucksack (backup to Montana)

Can then see the trip distance and trip average speed on bars, which is helpful for planning against a holiday
And see that day's distance and average speed on wrist, not so bothered

Garmin Montana 610 doesn't mind huge tracking files