Strava Relative Effort

Steve Hillman
2019/06/15

That was a waste of time and effort.

Thomas Lopata
2019/06/02

The relative effort score stays at zero during any activity.

Marijn Tulp
2019/05/29

On my Vivoactive 3 and Forerunner 235, the relative effort was similar to the number of kilometers I ran (e.g. 10 km at normal pace had a relative effort of 10). On my new Forerunner 945, I get very strange, high score (e.g. 10 km at normal pace has a relative effort of 40), while for cycling, the data field works the same as on my old watches. Is this a bug on the Forerunner 945?

Geoff
2019/04/21

I've just about given up with this. Checked and re-checked that the HR zones in Strava match the data field settings on the watch and still it reads 50% higher on the watch than the uploaded activity on Strava. Tried it from another angle and tweaked the HR zones on Strava slightly to match the ones Garmin calculates and RE on Strava is now about 1/3 of what it was. All this has done is made me realise the Strava RE figure is probably a load of rubbish.

Dee Jay
2019/04/11

Kind of useless. I think regular HR info is much more accurate than such figures which don't even match the ones you get on Strava once your activity is loaded.

Sónia
2019/04/11

It doesn't work on my Vivoactive 3 Music. I can see it in the watch screen, but it doesn't show any data. It's always with a zero.

Nick Tisdell
2019/03/28

Worked pretty good for me, often 10-20% off maybe (high). However I just now realized that in your desktop software "Garmin Express" you need to select "IQ Apps" to manage apps. Select the settings (three white circles in grey oval) for the Stra Relative App. In there is where you need to set your heart rate ranges/zones. I thought it was in your user settings... didn't match in my case! Should be automatic IMO. We'll see if the Score is a bit closer tonight! :-)

Aleksander Gaup 🇧🇻
2019/03/25

Works just as described