I've been using Strava for about 9 years, probably for the last 5 or 6 I have not been paying much attention to segments, but in the last couple of months I have been working hard to get back to fitness after prelonged illness and injury and find the segments set up on certain speed sessions useful.
I did some hill reps as part of a small group last night, I felt I was going really well, much, much better than when I did a similar session on the same hills a couple of months ago.
I uploaded my watch and it shows me slower than both the times I did a couple of months ago, but also slower than people I was consistently beating in the session.
For example is gives my best time last night on one hill as 1:19, compared to 1:15 a few months ago and 1:11 for one of the people I was consistently beating. Looking at the stationary to stationary times on the Strava analysis of the run it was about 1:05.
It has occurred to me that I may be stopping a short distance before the end of the segment, but looking at this in more detail, I am pretty sure this isn't the case. It is not the first time that this has happened. Any ideas?