Strava or mapmyride?

[Trevor_P]

If MapmyRide is like Mapmywalk, then be careful when your phone battery becomes flat. With Strava, after around five hours my battery dies. When recharged, starting the App allows you to save the ride right up to the point where the battery died. Went for a long walk with Mapmywalk on Tuesday. The battery died. It wasn't till I got home that I found out that Mapmywalk doesnt save the data locally, and the walk was lost.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Having just done the upload, I'd add - Strava is cleverer. Garmin connect is blocked at work so I just upload the raw file, MapMyRide doesn't realise this and tries to upload it a second time when connected properly. Strava realises it already has that activity. But Strava is more annoying, it doesn't mix distances as easily so if you want to climb in metres you have to ride in kilometres and also it refuses to let you join until you've told it how heavy your bike is. Like anyone really knows!

Change this in your settings on Strava it will than show it in km, all units record in metric, and web pages or the units convert them to imperial for display.

 

[Steppylud]

If MapmyRide is like Mapmywalk, then be careful when your phone battery becomes flat. With Strava, after around five hours my battery dies. When recharged, starting the App allows you to save the ride right up to the point where the battery died. Went for a long walk with Mapmywalk on Tuesday. The battery died. It wasn't till I got home that I found out that Mapmywalk doesnt save the data locally, and the walk was lost.

I have had the battery die on a ride before, when I got home and charged it just drew a straight line from where it died direct to my house!

 

[nxn2020]

I suppose it comes down to the specific features you want. I use Strava, the brains of the outfit prefers Map My Ride.

The main reason I stick with Strava is the Cycle Chat club - I like to see what people are up to as it gives me something to aim for long-term, and it will make me suggest a slightly longer Sunday ride than usual if I think it'll move me up from 180/181 to into the low 170s!

What's cycle chat club! Just asked strava to look for it but came up with nothing.

 

[paul04]

I use strava, easy to setup and easy to use, I use it to track my miles (and maybe break a couple of segments along the way)

 

[GreigM]

What's cycle chat club! Just asked strava to look for it but came up with nothing.

http://www.strava.com/clubs/cyclechat

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I designed my own database, that none of the sites can beat, only takes a couple of mins if that to enter the data, gives me how difficult a ride was, ft/mile, cals/H.B. and all weird sort of stuff.