Strava Beta - Distance and pace not matching

I had a really, really slow walk that I recorded with the Strava app and the distance and pace are very different. I’m sure the pace difference was because there was a lot of stopping and starting, but the distance is .5 miles vs 1.8 miles.

This is interesting. Strava provides a flag moving:true/false which we’ve been using to exclude paused periods during runs. However in your walk the flag is triggered dozens of times.

The result, if you exclude all of those periods flagged moving:false is the much shorter distance. Now the question is how do we differentiate between real pauses, and these…