Woman Learns of Husband’s Infidelity Through His Fitness App
While technology makes our lives easier in a myriad of ways, having a GPS track your every movement has made things decidedly more difficult for those looking to commit adultery. As such, one woman who had been cheated on by her husband struck a chord with her story about how she caught “the little weasel” using data from his fitness tracking app.
“I figured out my ex-husband was cheating on me through Strava,” declared TikTok user Megan McGee, in a video that has been viewed more than 1.7 million times.
“Strava is a social media app where friends can follow each other and share their workouts with each other,” McGee explained. “So you can go on a run, a swim or a hike and post it to your Strava, and it will share with all of your Strava friends.”
The important thing to note about Strava, she said, is that it shares your map with people, so if you either have a public account or are friends with someone, they can see where you’re running, as well as your starting and stop points. She said that when her husband, who is in the military, first came home from deployment he wasn’t going into work that often and would instead go on solo runs.
“Looking back, I even remember there being times where I offered to go on runs with him, and he would make up some excuse about how he was going to run too far for me, I wouldn’t be able to keep up, whatever, whatever,” McGee continued, all the while calmly mixing up a batch of chocolate chip banana bread.
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Shortly after, she says that her husband called her and informed her that they were “going on a break.”
“That put off some red flags, so this is when I started digging in and saying something bigger must be going on here, I’m going to look into it,” she recalled. “Immediately, I start becoming like an FBI detective. I’m thinking, like, what can I go through to find out what is going on.”
“If you’re a girl and you’ve ever been in this situation before, you know you just go in, you find like everything possible just to get yourself answers,” McGee said. “And listen, this man, like most who are cheating, they think they’re sly and they try to cover up their tracks as well as they can.”
After investigating his Strava activity, she noticed that her now ex-husband would start his runs at their house, and end at the house of a woman he served in the military with, who lived about a half-mile away.
“So while this didn’t tell me the whole story, it sure gave me a lot of reassurance about who he was cheating on me with and what he was doing all those times he was gone,” she concluded, adding a note for the company that if it were looking to give out sponsorships, she has learned to use “the ins and the outs” of the app pretty well.
It’s hardly the first time Strava data has been used for unintended purposes. The app was also blamed for giving away the location of secret military bases.
Perhaps she should open her own private investigator business if Strava doesn’t bite.
