{"id":13926,"date":"2025-08-19T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=13926"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:02:11","slug":"a-run-recommended-by-strava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-run-recommended-by-strava\/","title":{"rendered":"A Run Recommended by Strava"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

When you drive to a place you don’t have a place for it. That’s why it’s good to use sites to find recommendations. Usually I like to explore routing opportunities with Komoot, to look at routes, what they offer as sites and sounds, and how long the route is. <\/p>\n

Last night and this morning I let another site decide. I told Strava that I was going to start from one point, and I looked at what it recommended. I then drove to the start, and ran the route. In the process I found that the route it recommended was not as intuitive as I thought. <\/p>\n

I continued following a road down a hill, when I came across some cows, when I should have followed a hiking path along that field, along the road and down towards a canal. Instead I continued downwards towards a gravel road before coming up to road works where a bridge was being replaced. I had to cross an empty river and then go under a barrier.<\/p>\n

I thought that I would be road running but I was gravel running, which, with vapour gloves is unpleasant. I stomped on a few stones with my heels, and could really feel the base of my feet being massaged by other stones. It was painful.<\/p>\n

Eventually I ran through an industrial zone. From what I could see the hiking path was blocked for some reason. Eventually I was able to rejoin the canal. <\/p>\n

Running along the canal was really nice. It’s unusual for me to stop and take pictures at regular intervals. As the route was new, and special to me I wanted to capture it.<\/p>\n

It’s amusing. If you drive here, you think "It’s a small village with a street or two, and not much else, but when you hike, or walk, you see that it has a lot to offer.<\/p>\n

The route<\/a> that strava planned was in the opposite direction. If I had checked the route more carefully I would have realised.<\/p>\n

TLDR<\/h2>\n

If you find yourself in a place for two or three hours, without plans, then Strava could suggest a running route with nice landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>When you drive to a place you don’t have a place for it. That’s why it’s good to use sites to find recommendations. Usually I like to explore routing opportunities with Komoot, to look at routes, what they offer as sites and sounds, and how long the route is. Last night and this morning I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[309,6987,6646,836],"class_list":["post-13926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-map","tag-recommendation","tag-run","tag-strava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13927,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions\/13927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}