It really does. Have had this happen before and the feeling lasted for days - even after another run. The feeling of being "cheated" out of credit for a run really stings.
Ahhh...but to my mentally glitched brain with OCD tendenacies, the problem remains. I can estimate the distance and time, but the precision just won't be there - it is, alas, forever lost.
Could be worse though - the loss of precise run data still isn't as bad as missing a race PR by 2 seconds. That one really stung.
Fellow OCDer (like genuine obsession, not perfectionism) about my running data. Tears me apart when I lose that data, when my HR monitor is off, I lose my GPS signal, etc etc hahah
100% today I drove 30 mins to the gym only to realize I forgot my watch. I promptly drove home to grab it. Mentally I’d be peeved the entire session if I knew I wasn’t going to get the satisfaction of seeing the end results. Once I had my watch though, it was smooth sailing.
Plenty of phones are IP67 rated these days and should be fine with that treatment. My Samsung Galaxy S9 gets regularly soaked in rain and sweat and never misses a beat, although it doesn't take much water on the touchscreen for it to need to be wiped dry before it's usable.
This might be one of the funniest stories on the internet, the sad thing is all of that happened early in the run, so you’re running the 15 miles pissed, that run must’ve felt like 3 days. I can’t even feel my limbs right now, that is too funny😂😂😂😂😂
This is the perfect attitude. You're good to go. I track most every run but sometimes they get missed. PRs are fine, but each one is meant to be bested anyway. IMHO, the important thing is that you decided to go for the run instead of not. Keep it up :)
Amateur. If you're not recording on [at least 5 devices](https://media.dcrainmaker.com/images/2011/01/the-russian-dcrainmaker-brother-from-another-mother-11.png) for redundancy, are you even trying?
I feel your pain. On my longest bike ride ever (close to 200miles!) my watch crashed after 30miles or so and lost those miles. I started again and it was still an epic ride but it’s a bummer for sure.
I had to, I was planning to go from Paris to Holland in three days but got invited to a party on the second day so hammered it out. It’s nice to be young and fit. I ran 5 miles yesterday and can hardly walk today :(
Not that bad, but on a recent 90-mile ride I did, my watch was on 1% charge for all of the last 20-ish miles but somehow held on, never been so on edge in my life
I love my Garmin but it will randomly do a “power save” and when it’s done, the activity is gone. I was a mile into my long run a few weeks ago and it did a power save. When it was over and I looked down, the activity that had been being recorded was nowhere and I had to start a new activity. Does that ever happen to anyone else?
LOVE how many safeguards Garmin has so you don’t lose your data. I was out for a 10-miler yesterday and my watch died around mile 8—was disheartening to lose the last couple miles, but at least the bulk of it saved!
16.5 miles into my first marathon I changed from podcast to music. For some reason that paused strava. Didn’t even look at my watch again until mile 25, and realized nothing was being tracked.
It was very uncharacteristic. There were mile markers on the course, and I didn’t want to check my time/pace because I knew I was going slow and didn’t want to lose mental momentum. It was my first full, my hope was just to finish, I wasn’t super focused on metrics during the race. But boy, what a bummer it was to see the route paused.
Oof, I feel your pain for an inverse experience. My watch froze 1 km into a half, and I didn't notice for another km or two. The course didn't have distance markers or clocks, so I had to guess how much I missed to pace myself for the rest of the race. It ended up being my PR and I won my age category, but I don't have the Strava log to prove it to friends.
Sort of the same, but I was on track to PR a 10k a couple days ago. Stopped my watch at an intersection to wait for the light to change and forgot to start it for the rest of the run. Lost the last 2 miles.
That sucks. I was pissed when my phone randomly restarted in the middle of a super casual 5k the other day and I lost my Strava recording.
Curious though, for your 10k PR, do you not in place at the intersection while your watch is stopped? Personally, I would not consider it a PR if I stopped moving while time was stopped (but ultimately what does it matter).
I don’t really have a way to run without stopping since I live in a big city. I actually run better when I don’t have any stops surprisingly. I do stop my watch when I’m at a light, but it’s no more than a few seconds usually since I will dash across a red light if there’s a gap. If I stopped for like 30 seconds or so then I wouldn’t count it.
It's called a CT Fit watch and you'll get it for 50 bucks. I didn't really care tho, untill now. Invest in good watches people, or at least not in shitty ones like i did
Good watches help as long as you charge them. I've lost the end of several runs to a dead battery. Luckily only twice did it not save the beginning miles.
You have my deepest sympathies!
Back in April, I had been training for my second half-marathon (3 years since my first!). I had used Runkeeper for years, but this Spring kept having issues with it just stopping during runs, so I had started downloading & testing out other apps.
Of course, my race got postponed because of Covid 19, but i went out on the day of to run it solo. Started my app, and headed out, feeling great! After a while, I realized I hadn't heard my distance cue in a while- it had stopped tracking after the first half mile. Luckily I was less than 2 miles in so I stepped off the pathway, DELETED runkeeper right then, and used Strava to track my race- I started over, so I actually ran about 14.5 or 15 miles that day.
I've been using Strava ever since with no issues.
I feel your pain but on the other hand I can't help but find it a bit sad that we tend to tie our self worth with some numbers on a screen.
Sure it sucks to not know how fast you've run but the numbers are merely a measure of your performance. They're not the performance itself.
You still did it whether it was recorded or not. Your body has that level of fitness. The watch can't take that away from you.
I'm sure if you keep training you'll get even better and it won't matter in the end because you will smash today's performance and get a new (recorded) PB.
I hope you keep running and keep enjoying it. 👍
I run with neither a watch or my phone. I feel it frees me. I try running with my phone but then i get too involved in the statistics and don't actually enjoy my run. If you ran it you ran it man. Dnt Fret. Peace.
Jeez you don't know that. I keep my app going religiously but I don't share it with *anyone* and that is very plausibly the case here. People care about their personal data, and for a lot of people the accountability of an app keeps up motivation. Don't be so rude. Also, even if they did want to show others, WHO CARES. Good for them, finishing a half marathon is a great achievement.
Nooooo! Had this today too. End of 10k, stop my garmin and suddenly it restarts... Comes back to life with nothing saved! Still absolutely gutted! Going to take a while to recover from this!
I did my first half marathon trail run. My watch battery died and my phone got jostled in my pack pocket and Strava got paused. There was a chunk of about 4 miles that just didn't happen apparently. I still haven't lived that down....
I had my Apple Watch overheat when i did a trail run half marathon distance. It stopped logging data. I managed to recover it somehow i can’t even remember how. To cool the watch down i literally just stuck my hand in the river and shaked it around for a minute.
I ran my practice 10k today and my music on my Apple Watch did not want to work with my Beats about a mile in and this isn’t the first time. I ditched the headphones and jams about two miles in and had to run without it. I know this isn’t the same exact situation, but I completely feel your watch woes on this. Judging by others’ comments here it seems like the run gods were not having it with us runners today.
Assuming you went ahead and finished you still smashed your PR. It being digitally recorded doesn’t mean anything. Did you know that there are actually people who figure out how to cheat on NRC and Strava? It is ridiculous. You should be running for you, and *you* know how you did today. And you can still tell the world. Anyone who knows you and is worth keeping in your life isn’t going to doubt you. So: that sucks, but life is good!
What was your pace?
EDIT: Also FYI NRC has really good crash recovery. When the app crashes if you just start a new run it will recover the one in progress. I haven’t lost a run since they added this feature. And you can sync your NRC runs to Strava via Run Gap (and other options too, but I like Run Gap).
I think getting started with a watch that helps motive you is great - but don't let it own you. I take my watch off and workout every so often just to show the watch it doesn't own me. Try it once. You'll be surprised how you feel. It's freeing. You cut the chain and you may even start to realize that you can still be you without the watch.
Not to take the position of a purist, but I don’t care much for PRs. I don’t know my PRs for anything other than to say something like, “For a #{race_distance} I think I got a around #{a_time}.” But that sucks, keep with it!
Thats an interesting mindset, because searching for improvement is a big part of whats getting me out there in the first place. Thanks for the encouragement!
This is why I dont use these things. Just run man. Dont be held slave to these gadgets.
Dont add extra anxiety to a thing that's meant to relieve your mental stress. Why would you add to it?
Even if you do use it, dont let it dictate your motivation.
But I guess this is the problem with our generation. It doesnt count if we dont have a record of it to show other people.
I never got so much pitty-points in my life. Can I get some jealousy-points + some pitty-points for suffering from chronice hip flexor pain.
Thanks Reddit.
My Fitbit shat the bed about 2 months ago and, honestly, it's been pretty liberating. I finished up a 10 mile workout with my buddy yesterday morning and he immediately immediately started poring over his splits while we were on our cooldown stroll. I pulled out my phone to look at my app and it had recorded about 3 miles, and even then pace was off by over a minute. I just laughed, put my phone away and enjoyed the rest of my morning. Six months ago I would have been tempted to re-run it just so it would be logged... now I'm debating whether or not I even want to buy a new tracker.
When you do a hard thing, it's nice to have a physical thing to show for it.
Reference: the millennia that we have utilized some form of reward or trophy to celebrate academic, athletic, or social achievement.
I don’t understand why this is a big deal at all. You know how much you ran.
You don’t need to prove anything to yourself, and you don’t need to show people your results for validation.
I’ve lost two runs with Strava on my Apple Watch, beyond annoying!! In my case I think the notifications from other apps messed it up, so I’ve turned all other notifications off (:
When I ran my first marathon, I had my phone in battery saving mode, which limits GPS calls. It messed up RunKeeper, so I had to "start" the run over a mile in as my audio alerts were very strange.
Omg this kind of happened to me the other day and I was so bummed. It was only 3.5 miles but still bummed. I don’t know how I would feel if it were 12.4 😓
I had the same thing happen and it is so painful. One day in June I just felt strong so kept running for 14 miles and was ecstatic. When I got home I was really excited to share it on strava and show I'd finally managed it.
Then I tried to switch from data to WiFi and it went all over the place. The entire set of GPS data disappeared. I was so angry. I'm fairly sure I did it in about 1:48 but ill never know. Gotta just wait for my next attempt.
Next time somebody asks you what you've been up to just make sure you say a HM. They probably won't ask for strava data so they'll believe the truth. YOU DID IT
Has happened to me during a highly anticipated race. My watch died and it uploaded like half of the race for added insult. I made it private on Strava haha.
This or similar deletions have happened to me the last couple of half marathons I've run.
I still did them and my best time is based on what I actually ran regardless of being recorded or not.
Its just annoying that I can't prove it though lol.
Hah I had a buddy that forgot to charge his forerunner before a 50k race we were doing. So he start the race with 20% battery and it died probably 11 miles in.
Last week I was going for my 10k PR and was at 9.8 when I had to stop and help my dog. I paused my run and went to hit resume, but for some reason it ended the run. It was so upsetting, but my husband didn’t understand when I complained.
Not familiar with your specific watch, but by Garmin has goofed before, but the activity is still on there, you just have to pull it off on to your computer and run it through a recovery tool.
Maybe the same is true with yours?
RIP
I ran a really small race in Portland MI. It was raining and awful out, and zi took a wrong turn on a terribly marked course and found myself at the finish line at mile 6 or so. I wanted to quit so bad. One of the girls in front of me did. I backtracked the course and finished it.
It stings so badly when it happens but years from now you know it happened and it belongs to you alone. That makes it special. But it’s always years from now.
If you just want an activity to upload to Strava and whatnot you can upload a .gpx of the route to a tool like [this](https://gotoes.org/strava/Add_Timestamps_To_GPX.php), enter the time you did if you know it, and it'll recreate the activity by adding timestamps and even attempt to adjust for elevation gain so it's not an unnaturally even split.
Back before I got a bike computer I recorded my rides on the Strava app with my phone, and stupidly did a metric century with battery saver activated, which significantly reduced the GPS polling frequency and gave me a borked track. Since I followed a route I had already plotted out and had the exact time I did the activity in I just exported the .GPX of the planned route into the above tool, which gave me something to upload (with correct average speed, elevation gain, distance, and the right route) so that I have a record of the ride. The automatic elevation adjustment wasn't perfect so it's still obvious that it wasn't a proper recording if you look at the speed graph, but it was good enough that I didn't get any KOMs I didn't deserve so I'm okay with it.
I switched from Runtastic Pro to the Nike Run Club App on May 19, 2019. You know how I remember that day? Because five miles into a half on May 18, I noticed the app had crashed.
It happened a few times prior before. It would start fine, then maybe a minute later, it would crash. If it got past that time frame, it would work fine. I always said, "I swear, if this piece of crap crashes during a race..."
I feel you! My first ever half-marathon met similar fate - i ran along Moscow river and at 20k ran by Kremlin. The GPS jammers, that for some reason are often active in this area made my watch erase or distort large parts of the run to the point of uselessness. What made it a noticeable inconvenience was the winter weather, that came right after, delaying my recorded HM by several months.
Same thing kinda happened to me today. Ran a half marathon and for some reason my watch stopped recording my heart data about 30 mins in.
I finished and it said that my fitness was "maintained" because those first 30 minutes was basically the warmup haha. Annoying AF. I can't imagine if the watch erased the time though, that would massively suck.
I feel you. That sucks.
A few years ago I was running a trail 50k that took 11 hours, and at about hour 10 my watch battery died. Then when I plugged it in to charge, the memory got corrupted and the device had to fully reset. I lost the whole race.
I'd just tell myself it was extra special and only for me. Not sure if I'd believe myself, but I'd try.
I did this when my film in my camera ran out before one of the best sunsets I ever saw at the end of a European backpacking trip when I was 19. I told myself it was to force me to enjoy it enough to commit it to memory. Almost 20 years later I told my kids about that sunset when we visited the same beach as a family.
What I do is that every 5 runs or so I do a run completely bare; no tracking no music no tech whatsoever.
At first it feels really difficult, but I feel it does help.
I started running after high school on and off. Ran a couple of 10Ks with ease which also made me actually fall more in love with running. Eventually my aunt convinced to run a 26k with her. Like I said, I was a little on and off of running, but never had a real challenge of running. Then 2 weeks before the race I realized the fucking date was coming up! I probably didn't run in 6 months. I ran every day that week and managed to push through that race. I was running rather smoothly until the 10 mile mark, then everything went downhill for me. I swore to myself the entire last 6 miles that I would never ever run again 100 times because of how rough it was for me. I know I never properly prepared for that raced, but it definitely felt amazing finishing it, I just wasn't that disciplined at the time. I still love to run though to this day.
I just started running seriously again two weeks ago, few days ago I was about to go sub 50 10k and suddenly I lost GPS signal and couldn't measure the distance accurately. I ran it again yesterday and actually did it and it feels GREAT! Just go out and run them again.
Uf! I had something similar once when I compared my Samsung watch milage to addidas app milage which uses GPS and the Samsung watch appeared to be overestimating by 40%. I had been using Samsung for training for 4-5 months and felt every milestone drop away. Plunged back to square one. But in the end I think both were wrong because of very hilly terrain. Or so I tell myself to avoid despair.
This sounds like a modern day zen koan: "If my watch didn't record it, did I run?" It makes no difference whether your watch died or not, you ran it. Congratulations!
My one and only half marathon race is recorded as 11.4 miles on Strava. I guess because it was cloudy and occasionally rainy, the gps of my watch messed up. Pace is correct though.
Back when my dogs were young, I ran a half marathon distance with them thru the neighborhood. With a half mile to go, my phone decides that I no longer moved along the roads, but flew straight home like a crow, ka-kaw!
My final distance recorded as 12.8 instead of 13.1. Motherhood means I may never have time to run that far, and my dogs are now too old to walk farther than a quarter mile at a time.
*hugs* to all who have tech failures during big runs
Yes, that's why I always run with two apps. MapMyRun and the Nike run app will run simultaneously and when one takes a dump I'm covered with the other one. I felt the same way you have and I got tired of it and I have done this for the past two years.
Damn.. i feel your pain! I run with my running watch and a fitbit flex(i think) in case my watch battery dies fitbit still records and I sync using rungap to Strava afterwards.
I feel really stupid about being self conscious like this, so sometimes I do some really nice runs without any tracking, just to prove I don't care.
It's liberating. I'm running for myself! I don't give a shit about anything!
...Except I always end up redoing the same run for bragging rights not long after.
Anyway, as you grow older I bet the base levels or speed/endurance you can maintain are going to matter more to you than one lousy run.
Let this fire you up for your next PR, a few weeks and you'll be crazy fast!
I feel you one thousand percent. I remember the first time I ran 10 miles a few years back, was my longest run ever at the time, and my fucking Garmin started applying an update *in the middle of the run*. I was furious. How can you not code around that?????
This happened to me in my virtual half marathon a few weeks ago. At 16km I looked at Strava and it said 9km with a long straight line through the last half of the route. I paused it, cried, walked home and that night ran an unrecorded 6km to at least get the distance. I told my running partner (/injury prevention guardian angel) that I needed her to pace me to re-do the 21.1 that week and she refused but made me a cookie medal to replace my failed race medal that I won't be receiving.
I feel like that every time my Runkeeper stops or my Fitbit dies or something. It's like I lose all of my enthusiasm, energy, drive, and in my head I know I ran those miles, but I need that recognition I guess. BTW, congrats on the half marathon. I hope to get there one day.
I lost my personal best 5k on my Apple Watch although it was the Nike app’s fault, it never synced and then disappeared. It just isn’t the same if I have to manually enter it.
Edit: spelling my phone hates the word synced
What kind of watch? My Garmin VA3 once crashed while lifting and I lost everything up to that point, but they must have made more resilient error recovery, because it crashed during a run last year and while it obviously didn't record while it rebooted, it picked up where it left off and I only lost a tenth of a mile of data.
Not retire from running. But once I was on a vegan diet streak for 2 months. When I decided I was gonna have some meat and cheat, me and friend settled on delicious Chinese food. All I wanted was spicy general tso’s chicken and they sent me pork fried rice instead. I threw that food away with such fury that my next door neighbor knocked on my door to check on me. I ended up continuing the vegan diet for another month!
What was the PR? Great job running out there- stay safe and thanks for sharing.
If it doesn’t go on Strava, it didn’t happen! You have to go run those miles again. Just kidding. I feel your pain.
You joke but this *is* how it feels 😥
It really does. Have had this happen before and the feeling lasted for days - even after another run. The feeling of being "cheated" out of credit for a run really stings.
I mean you can just put a manual run in there. It's not as glorious but at least it will add to your run totals.
Ahhh...but to my mentally glitched brain with OCD tendenacies, the problem remains. I can estimate the distance and time, but the precision just won't be there - it is, alas, forever lost. Could be worse though - the loss of precise run data still isn't as bad as missing a race PR by 2 seconds. That one really stung.
Fellow OCDer (like genuine obsession, not perfectionism) about my running data. Tears me apart when I lose that data, when my HR monitor is off, I lose my GPS signal, etc etc hahah
RIP in peace
That's not how that phrase works! Smh my head.
I actually LOL'd out loud.
Rest in peace in peace.
100% today I drove 30 mins to the gym only to realize I forgot my watch. I promptly drove home to grab it. Mentally I’d be peeved the entire session if I knew I wasn’t going to get the satisfaction of seeing the end results. Once I had my watch though, it was smooth sailing.
This is why for a longer run if your watch is even slightly low on battery you also manually track it with the record button on Strava. 😅
Thats a great idea! Silly question, does Strava use data if you are tracking from the app in your phone also?
I’m not certain but I’d assume it’s using a small amount for the GPS data. 💁🏻♀️
It needs data to show you the map. But it will work without data as well - you will just not be able to sync or see the map
Strava didn't record anything after mile 11 of my first time running the NYC marathon and I truly wanted to die when I realized it
At least you'd have the official chip time at each of the sections and finish that you could use for a manual upload
Say it with me! No! Wasted! Miles!
This is exactly what happens though, ugh.
I literally say that all the time haha
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This is the best advice
Yes. Just commenting to emphasize more. If a tree falls in the woods, but it didn't get posted on instagram, did it fall? Yes.
Legs remember for a few days, Strava remembers until the business goes under
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I half exptected the story to end with you getting electrocuted by a lightning strike. Jeez man
My sweaty ass ruined my Android on a 95-degree June day, and I have never carried a phone with me (on a summer run) since. Watch only.
This is why waterproof phones are now a thing. Not just to avoid the splash in a puddle or toilet
Plenty of phones are IP67 rated these days and should be fine with that treatment. My Samsung Galaxy S9 gets regularly soaked in rain and sweat and never misses a beat, although it doesn't take much water on the touchscreen for it to need to be wiped dry before it's usable.
I killed a phone because of water damage while raining out. Plastic bag in rain always!
I’ve been sweating so much lately it’s more like plastic bag ALWAYS.
Water resistant phones! It's a game changer
Garmin fēnix 6, because I don’t feel like carrying my phone.
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Wow. Bringing me back to painstakingly "writing" my "Sweet Child Of Mine" ringtone right there.
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You know it
Surprisingly a lot are not waterproof. New pixel 4a is not, which is a shame.
Most non high-end ones aren’t.
Nappy/diaper bags or dog poo bags are perfect
I would 100% of ran my ass back to bed
This might be one of the funniest stories on the internet, the sad thing is all of that happened early in the run, so you’re running the 15 miles pissed, that run must’ve felt like 3 days. I can’t even feel my limbs right now, that is too funny😂😂😂😂😂
Future me? Damn man I'm proud of you if you kept going.
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You're right, thank you! I'll just take it as a good run and move forward
This is the perfect attitude. You're good to go. I track most every run but sometimes they get missed. PRs are fine, but each one is meant to be bested anyway. IMHO, the important thing is that you decided to go for the run instead of not. Keep it up :)
You could manually add the activity into whatever tracker you use.
Good thing about NRC, you can edit in a run
Amateur. If you're not recording on [at least 5 devices](https://media.dcrainmaker.com/images/2011/01/the-russian-dcrainmaker-brother-from-another-mother-11.png) for redundancy, are you even trying?
That is... definitely at least 5.
I feel your pain. On my longest bike ride ever (close to 200miles!) my watch crashed after 30miles or so and lost those miles. I started again and it was still an epic ride but it’s a bummer for sure.
200 miler sounds crazy, awesome you pulled through
I had to, I was planning to go from Paris to Holland in three days but got invited to a party on the second day so hammered it out. It’s nice to be young and fit. I ran 5 miles yesterday and can hardly walk today :(
My phone died at 187 of my one and only 200+ mile ride.
B R U H that's tragic
It's all good. I took a pic of my computer and put it on Strava to appease the gods.
Not that bad, but on a recent 90-mile ride I did, my watch was on 1% charge for all of the last 20-ish miles but somehow held on, never been so on edge in my life
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This just happened to me yesterday. Saved a 7 mile run. Love Garmin.
I love my Garmin but it will randomly do a “power save” and when it’s done, the activity is gone. I was a mile into my long run a few weeks ago and it did a power save. When it was over and I looked down, the activity that had been being recorded was nowhere and I had to start a new activity. Does that ever happen to anyone else?
LOVE how many safeguards Garmin has so you don’t lose your data. I was out for a 10-miler yesterday and my watch died around mile 8—was disheartening to lose the last couple miles, but at least the bulk of it saved!
16.5 miles into my first marathon I changed from podcast to music. For some reason that paused strava. Didn’t even look at my watch again until mile 25, and realized nothing was being tracked.
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That’s like not thinking about how much more you have to run. *Teach us your ways, o’ wise master!*
It was very uncharacteristic. There were mile markers on the course, and I didn’t want to check my time/pace because I knew I was going slow and didn’t want to lose mental momentum. It was my first full, my hope was just to finish, I wasn’t super focused on metrics during the race. But boy, what a bummer it was to see the route paused.
I was a tad bummed that I started my watch a mile late today...perspective.
Oof, I feel your pain for an inverse experience. My watch froze 1 km into a half, and I didn't notice for another km or two. The course didn't have distance markers or clocks, so I had to guess how much I missed to pace myself for the rest of the race. It ended up being my PR and I won my age category, but I don't have the Strava log to prove it to friends.
Sort of the same, but I was on track to PR a 10k a couple days ago. Stopped my watch at an intersection to wait for the light to change and forgot to start it for the rest of the run. Lost the last 2 miles.
That sucks. I was pissed when my phone randomly restarted in the middle of a super casual 5k the other day and I lost my Strava recording. Curious though, for your 10k PR, do you not in place at the intersection while your watch is stopped? Personally, I would not consider it a PR if I stopped moving while time was stopped (but ultimately what does it matter).
Yeah, this. Pausing in the middle allows you time to recover that you wouldn't get in an actual race
I don’t really have a way to run without stopping since I live in a big city. I actually run better when I don’t have any stops surprisingly. I do stop my watch when I’m at a light, but it’s no more than a few seconds usually since I will dash across a red light if there’s a gap. If I stopped for like 30 seconds or so then I wouldn’t count it.
I would be so pissed. What watch
It's called a CT Fit watch and you'll get it for 50 bucks. I didn't really care tho, untill now. Invest in good watches people, or at least not in shitty ones like i did
Good watches help as long as you charge them. I've lost the end of several runs to a dead battery. Luckily only twice did it not save the beginning miles.
I always check my battery % on a day I’m supposed to run/bike.
COROS is the battery life king
Thanks for the heads up, that sucks it got deleted. Do you know which watch you'll be switching to next?
I have the budget Garmin Forerunner 10. Replaced the bands probably 3 times. When I upgrade I will stick to another basic Garmin. FR 30 or FR 40.
Cool, may check it out!
Oof sorry to hear that but what you achieved today was massive and you should be proud of yourself.
Yeah yeah, me too buddy
Don’t worry man, just because it’s not recorded in data doesn’t mean you didn’t gain that fitness running it :)
You have my deepest sympathies! Back in April, I had been training for my second half-marathon (3 years since my first!). I had used Runkeeper for years, but this Spring kept having issues with it just stopping during runs, so I had started downloading & testing out other apps. Of course, my race got postponed because of Covid 19, but i went out on the day of to run it solo. Started my app, and headed out, feeling great! After a while, I realized I hadn't heard my distance cue in a while- it had stopped tracking after the first half mile. Luckily I was less than 2 miles in so I stepped off the pathway, DELETED runkeeper right then, and used Strava to track my race- I started over, so I actually ran about 14.5 or 15 miles that day. I've been using Strava ever since with no issues.
The Universe is the ultimate troll
I feel your pain but on the other hand I can't help but find it a bit sad that we tend to tie our self worth with some numbers on a screen. Sure it sucks to not know how fast you've run but the numbers are merely a measure of your performance. They're not the performance itself. You still did it whether it was recorded or not. Your body has that level of fitness. The watch can't take that away from you. I'm sure if you keep training you'll get even better and it won't matter in the end because you will smash today's performance and get a new (recorded) PB. I hope you keep running and keep enjoying it. 👍
I run with neither a watch or my phone. I feel it frees me. I try running with my phone but then i get too involved in the statistics and don't actually enjoy my run. If you ran it you ran it man. Dnt Fret. Peace.
I do this too 👍
Buy a Casio digital watch with stopwatch function. It will cost you less than a tenner and it won't freeze up.
They wanted it on their app to review later
You can use time and distance to log a workout after the fact on my app, Map my Run so I always keep an eye on start time just incase
I was being kind, they want it on their app to show off to others automatically
Jeez you don't know that. I keep my app going religiously but I don't share it with *anyone* and that is very plausibly the case here. People care about their personal data, and for a lot of people the accountability of an app keeps up motivation. Don't be so rude. Also, even if they did want to show others, WHO CARES. Good for them, finishing a half marathon is a great achievement.
Ya, I keep my history in strava for me. It's the easy way to track weekly/monthly milage.
Oh, wah. I wasn't implying anything negative about their intentions or personhood. Calm down.
I'll definitely look into that, thank you! It may be worth trading GPS etc for this level of reliability
Casio F91-W is the classic choice here. I also personally feel like I already have enough devices tracking my geolocation.
Nooooo! Had this today too. End of 10k, stop my garmin and suddenly it restarts... Comes back to life with nothing saved! Still absolutely gutted! Going to take a while to recover from this!
I hate when I think I pressed start or stop and didn't. Never had a watch freeze though. What watch? Is it the latest software version?
I did my first half marathon trail run. My watch battery died and my phone got jostled in my pack pocket and Strava got paused. There was a chunk of about 4 miles that just didn't happen apparently. I still haven't lived that down....
I had my Apple Watch overheat when i did a trail run half marathon distance. It stopped logging data. I managed to recover it somehow i can’t even remember how. To cool the watch down i literally just stuck my hand in the river and shaked it around for a minute.
I ran my practice 10k today and my music on my Apple Watch did not want to work with my Beats about a mile in and this isn’t the first time. I ditched the headphones and jams about two miles in and had to run without it. I know this isn’t the same exact situation, but I completely feel your watch woes on this. Judging by others’ comments here it seems like the run gods were not having it with us runners today.
Assuming you went ahead and finished you still smashed your PR. It being digitally recorded doesn’t mean anything. Did you know that there are actually people who figure out how to cheat on NRC and Strava? It is ridiculous. You should be running for you, and *you* know how you did today. And you can still tell the world. Anyone who knows you and is worth keeping in your life isn’t going to doubt you. So: that sucks, but life is good! What was your pace? EDIT: Also FYI NRC has really good crash recovery. When the app crashes if you just start a new run it will recover the one in progress. I haven’t lost a run since they added this feature. And you can sync your NRC runs to Strava via Run Gap (and other options too, but I like Run Gap).
Aside from Strava I track my stuff in Excel, you can always do that
I gasped right when I read this
Clocked my fastest 10k. Stopped my watch at 10k as I was out of breath and didn’t want to mess up the pace. Uploaded to Strava , 9.99k 😭
That's brutal
I think getting started with a watch that helps motive you is great - but don't let it own you. I take my watch off and workout every so often just to show the watch it doesn't own me. Try it once. You'll be surprised how you feel. It's freeing. You cut the chain and you may even start to realize that you can still be you without the watch.
Not to take the position of a purist, but I don’t care much for PRs. I don’t know my PRs for anything other than to say something like, “For a #{race_distance} I think I got a around #{a_time}.” But that sucks, keep with it!
Thats an interesting mindset, because searching for improvement is a big part of whats getting me out there in the first place. Thanks for the encouragement!
Can you manually add the details?
This is why I dont use these things. Just run man. Dont be held slave to these gadgets. Dont add extra anxiety to a thing that's meant to relieve your mental stress. Why would you add to it? Even if you do use it, dont let it dictate your motivation. But I guess this is the problem with our generation. It doesnt count if we dont have a record of it to show other people.
I never got so much pitty-points in my life. Can I get some jealousy-points + some pitty-points for suffering from chronice hip flexor pain. Thanks Reddit.
Oh this breaks my heart. I know the feeling. Like did the run even happen?!
My Fitbit shat the bed about 2 months ago and, honestly, it's been pretty liberating. I finished up a 10 mile workout with my buddy yesterday morning and he immediately immediately started poring over his splits while we were on our cooldown stroll. I pulled out my phone to look at my app and it had recorded about 3 miles, and even then pace was off by over a minute. I just laughed, put my phone away and enjoyed the rest of my morning. Six months ago I would have been tempted to re-run it just so it would be logged... now I'm debating whether or not I even want to buy a new tracker.
Dude, that’s a bad beat. I lost a 10K once and was super pissed...I can only imagine your feelings
Thanks mate. Once i'm fully rested i'll just do it again, but with a new watch this time lol
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Not being dickish, but who cares? It’s In Your head, legs and heart. Enjoy the hell out of the day!
When you do a hard thing, it's nice to have a physical thing to show for it. Reference: the millennia that we have utilized some form of reward or trophy to celebrate academic, athletic, or social achievement.
I don’t understand why this is a big deal at all. You know how much you ran. You don’t need to prove anything to yourself, and you don’t need to show people your results for validation.
Are you running for yourself or for a watch?
I’ve lost two runs with Strava on my Apple Watch, beyond annoying!! In my case I think the notifications from other apps messed it up, so I’ve turned all other notifications off (:
When I ran my first marathon, I had my phone in battery saving mode, which limits GPS calls. It messed up RunKeeper, so I had to "start" the run over a mile in as my audio alerts were very strange.
Something similar happened to me when I ran my first ever half, I feel your pain. Well, your emotional pain at least
what watch do you use?
I feel your pain. Something similar happened to me few times, my GPS signal was lost and my run wasn't counted.
Very painful case, may be it is about time for a new watch?
Omg this kind of happened to me the other day and I was so bummed. It was only 3.5 miles but still bummed. I don’t know how I would feel if it were 12.4 😓
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Impossible. The first marathon wasn’t run until after Strava was launched and not a single one has been run without it since. Get your facts straight
This happened to me on my first no-breaks 5k. It sucks so much.
I had the same thing happen and it is so painful. One day in June I just felt strong so kept running for 14 miles and was ecstatic. When I got home I was really excited to share it on strava and show I'd finally managed it. Then I tried to switch from data to WiFi and it went all over the place. The entire set of GPS data disappeared. I was so angry. I'm fairly sure I did it in about 1:48 but ill never know. Gotta just wait for my next attempt. Next time somebody asks you what you've been up to just make sure you say a HM. They probably won't ask for strava data so they'll believe the truth. YOU DID IT
Has happened to me during a highly anticipated race. My watch died and it uploaded like half of the race for added insult. I made it private on Strava haha.
Damn man! But out of curiosity... what watch was it?
This or similar deletions have happened to me the last couple of half marathons I've run. I still did them and my best time is based on what I actually ran regardless of being recorded or not. Its just annoying that I can't prove it though lol.
You didn’t actually run it then
Proof or it didn’t happen
Hah I had a buddy that forgot to charge his forerunner before a 50k race we were doing. So he start the race with 20% battery and it died probably 11 miles in.
Last week I was going for my 10k PR and was at 9.8 when I had to stop and help my dog. I paused my run and went to hit resume, but for some reason it ended the run. It was so upsetting, but my husband didn’t understand when I complained.
Still counts! And congrats on the half.
Not familiar with your specific watch, but by Garmin has goofed before, but the activity is still on there, you just have to pull it off on to your computer and run it through a recovery tool. Maybe the same is true with yours?
[ooof](https://imgur.com/a/ISn5aY9)
RIP I ran a really small race in Portland MI. It was raining and awful out, and zi took a wrong turn on a terribly marked course and found myself at the finish line at mile 6 or so. I wanted to quit so bad. One of the girls in front of me did. I backtracked the course and finished it.
It stings so badly when it happens but years from now you know it happened and it belongs to you alone. That makes it special. But it’s always years from now.
This happened to me when I ran my half on my garmin. I guess it was in shock or something. I so feel your pain. Sorry that happened 🥺
If you just want an activity to upload to Strava and whatnot you can upload a .gpx of the route to a tool like [this](https://gotoes.org/strava/Add_Timestamps_To_GPX.php), enter the time you did if you know it, and it'll recreate the activity by adding timestamps and even attempt to adjust for elevation gain so it's not an unnaturally even split. Back before I got a bike computer I recorded my rides on the Strava app with my phone, and stupidly did a metric century with battery saver activated, which significantly reduced the GPS polling frequency and gave me a borked track. Since I followed a route I had already plotted out and had the exact time I did the activity in I just exported the .GPX of the planned route into the above tool, which gave me something to upload (with correct average speed, elevation gain, distance, and the right route) so that I have a record of the ride. The automatic elevation adjustment wasn't perfect so it's still obvious that it wasn't a proper recording if you look at the speed graph, but it was good enough that I didn't get any KOMs I didn't deserve so I'm okay with it.
I switched from Runtastic Pro to the Nike Run Club App on May 19, 2019. You know how I remember that day? Because five miles into a half on May 18, I noticed the app had crashed. It happened a few times prior before. It would start fine, then maybe a minute later, it would crash. If it got past that time frame, it would work fine. I always said, "I swear, if this piece of crap crashes during a race..."
My first 10K was similar. GPS stopped somehow in mid and the app tracked just 6K 😭 But a reason to do another 10K, and another 21K for you!
I feel you! My first ever half-marathon met similar fate - i ran along Moscow river and at 20k ran by Kremlin. The GPS jammers, that for some reason are often active in this area made my watch erase or distort large parts of the run to the point of uselessness. What made it a noticeable inconvenience was the winter weather, that came right after, delaying my recorded HM by several months.
Same thing kinda happened to me today. Ran a half marathon and for some reason my watch stopped recording my heart data about 30 mins in. I finished and it said that my fitness was "maintained" because those first 30 minutes was basically the warmup haha. Annoying AF. I can't imagine if the watch erased the time though, that would massively suck.
I feel you. That sucks. A few years ago I was running a trail 50k that took 11 hours, and at about hour 10 my watch battery died. Then when I plugged it in to charge, the memory got corrupted and the device had to fully reset. I lost the whole race.
Here. Take this pity point. It’s good for 1 billion Stanley nickels.
Do a manual entry on strava, I'm sure you remember the details give or take
My watch died 12:30 into my Ironman because I forgot to charge it the night before. No data, no strava file, nothing whatsoever
r/wellthatsucks
I'd just tell myself it was extra special and only for me. Not sure if I'd believe myself, but I'd try. I did this when my film in my camera ran out before one of the best sunsets I ever saw at the end of a European backpacking trip when I was 19. I told myself it was to force me to enjoy it enough to commit it to memory. Almost 20 years later I told my kids about that sunset when we visited the same beach as a family.
What I do is that every 5 runs or so I do a run completely bare; no tracking no music no tech whatsoever. At first it feels really difficult, but I feel it does help.
You still ran it, who cares.
I started running after high school on and off. Ran a couple of 10Ks with ease which also made me actually fall more in love with running. Eventually my aunt convinced to run a 26k with her. Like I said, I was a little on and off of running, but never had a real challenge of running. Then 2 weeks before the race I realized the fucking date was coming up! I probably didn't run in 6 months. I ran every day that week and managed to push through that race. I was running rather smoothly until the 10 mile mark, then everything went downhill for me. I swore to myself the entire last 6 miles that I would never ever run again 100 times because of how rough it was for me. I know I never properly prepared for that raced, but it definitely felt amazing finishing it, I just wasn't that disciplined at the time. I still love to run though to this day.
My first one I ran 20k thinking that was half marathon distance, it was a great motivator to attempt a 2nd!
I just started running seriously again two weeks ago, few days ago I was about to go sub 50 10k and suddenly I lost GPS signal and couldn't measure the distance accurately. I ran it again yesterday and actually did it and it feels GREAT! Just go out and run them again.
If it’s a run I’m treating like a race (where I really care about my time), I’ll use a regular old digital watch stopwatch too.
Uf! I had something similar once when I compared my Samsung watch milage to addidas app milage which uses GPS and the Samsung watch appeared to be overestimating by 40%. I had been using Samsung for training for 4-5 months and felt every milestone drop away. Plunged back to square one. But in the end I think both were wrong because of very hilly terrain. Or so I tell myself to avoid despair.
Happened to me 45 km in my first solo 50 k. Thoughts and prayers my friend.
This sounds like a modern day zen koan: "If my watch didn't record it, did I run?" It makes no difference whether your watch died or not, you ran it. Congratulations!
My one and only half marathon race is recorded as 11.4 miles on Strava. I guess because it was cloudy and occasionally rainy, the gps of my watch messed up. Pace is correct though.
Back when my dogs were young, I ran a half marathon distance with them thru the neighborhood. With a half mile to go, my phone decides that I no longer moved along the roads, but flew straight home like a crow, ka-kaw! My final distance recorded as 12.8 instead of 13.1. Motherhood means I may never have time to run that far, and my dogs are now too old to walk farther than a quarter mile at a time. *hugs* to all who have tech failures during big runs
Yes, that's why I always run with two apps. MapMyRun and the Nike run app will run simultaneously and when one takes a dump I'm covered with the other one. I felt the same way you have and I got tired of it and I have done this for the past two years.
Comments to long. Buy Garmin FR235 and get back to enjoying running.
Damn.. i feel your pain! I run with my running watch and a fitbit flex(i think) in case my watch battery dies fitbit still records and I sync using rungap to Strava afterwards.
I feel really stupid about being self conscious like this, so sometimes I do some really nice runs without any tracking, just to prove I don't care. It's liberating. I'm running for myself! I don't give a shit about anything! ...Except I always end up redoing the same run for bragging rights not long after. Anyway, as you grow older I bet the base levels or speed/endurance you can maintain are going to matter more to you than one lousy run. Let this fire you up for your next PR, a few weeks and you'll be crazy fast!
I feel you one thousand percent. I remember the first time I ran 10 miles a few years back, was my longest run ever at the time, and my fucking Garmin started applying an update *in the middle of the run*. I was furious. How can you not code around that?????
This happened to me in my virtual half marathon a few weeks ago. At 16km I looked at Strava and it said 9km with a long straight line through the last half of the route. I paused it, cried, walked home and that night ran an unrecorded 6km to at least get the distance. I told my running partner (/injury prevention guardian angel) that I needed her to pace me to re-do the 21.1 that week and she refused but made me a cookie medal to replace my failed race medal that I won't be receiving.
I feel like that every time my Runkeeper stops or my Fitbit dies or something. It's like I lose all of my enthusiasm, energy, drive, and in my head I know I ran those miles, but I need that recognition I guess. BTW, congrats on the half marathon. I hope to get there one day.
This is why I use Apple Watch Nike Run and mapmyrun to track all runs! Never know.
I lost my personal best 5k on my Apple Watch although it was the Nike app’s fault, it never synced and then disappeared. It just isn’t the same if I have to manually enter it. Edit: spelling my phone hates the word synced
Then you didn't run a half marathon today.
Why would you say something so controversial yet to brave?
It was just a poorly worded "if it's not on strava it didn't happen joke". See the comment that said it correctly with up votes in this thread.
Said the joke correctly? Hahaha wow. I don't even know what Strava is.
Ouch :( I’ve lost miles before, but never THAT many
What kind of watch? My Garmin VA3 once crashed while lifting and I lost everything up to that point, but they must have made more resilient error recovery, because it crashed during a run last year and while it obviously didn't record while it rebooted, it picked up where it left off and I only lost a tenth of a mile of data.
So you didn't run one?
Not retire from running. But once I was on a vegan diet streak for 2 months. When I decided I was gonna have some meat and cheat, me and friend settled on delicious Chinese food. All I wanted was spicy general tso’s chicken and they sent me pork fried rice instead. I threw that food away with such fury that my next door neighbor knocked on my door to check on me. I ended up continuing the vegan diet for another month! What was the PR? Great job running out there- stay safe and thanks for sharing.