Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[AndyWilliams]

Went to New Forest today. That was tough, the wind was so bad, I couldn't free roll down hill. I actually stopped as I thought my front brake was jammed on.
The open areas were the worst.

I wanted to do this


I did this

 

[Nigelnaturist]

This is a table showing the difference in elevation using the R20 and the Edge 705, the R20 takes its elevation from gps plots and is what is shown on the Bryton site column R20EG, the colunm 705EG is that record by the edge 705's barometric readings and is the pure data, the RWGPSCEG is the corrected elevation from the 705 file corrected on rwgps.
You can see how much the R20 is out ( I suspect the Edge 200 would be the same as I think most smart phones are, something not brought up often in the debt between the two) .you can also see that the 705 is sometimes positive and sometimes negative, where as the R20 is always negative. sometimes up to half the corrected and half that of the 705.

For some reason strava tends to give a higher elevation using the 705 than the corrected rwgps, where as once it corrects the R20 it's a lot lower, though close to the Bryton figure.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Friday - poured down most of the day.

Saturday - alternated pouring/drizzling all day until late evening which stopped for a while and then kicked off again as night rolled in.

Today - absolutely streaming down out there plus windy + chilly.

Had two long-ish rides planned this weekend

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

got a good sunny day here today (instead of the monsoon we had yesterday for my mother's party!) wind is going to be a problem here though. +17mph SW. should make a coastal ride, err interesting!

 

[Effyb4]

I'm not doing very well this week. I wasn't feeling well for most of the week and today I've got a christening to go to. I hope I don't lose too much of the fitness I have gained.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

got a good sunny day here today (instead of the monsoon we had yesterday for my mother's party!) wind is going to be a problem here though. +17mph SW. should make a coastal ride, err interesting!

Thanks for that!

 

[BrianEvesham]

Anyone having problems uploading rides to Strava ?
Mine just keeps saying it queued up and waiting.

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Anyone having problems uploading rides to Strava ?
Mine just keeps saying it queued up and waiting.

Mine is doing the same at the minute - frustrating, but I think I'll leave it to it and go and fill my face refuel with Sunday Carvery! - and this is just the reason I logged onto here to see if anybody else was having trouble. Helpful thread, as ever.
Happy Sunday folks

 

[BrianEvesham]

Cheers, that makes me feel better. I'll step away from the PC and do some gardening.

 

[Trevor_P]

Strava upload seems not to be working this morning for some reason?. Anyway according to Garmin connect, I did 29.44 miles at an average pace of 15.2mph with 1972 ft of climbing which is about 67ft/mile. So I'm quite pleased again as the average is up 0.5mph this week.

Edit, re: Strava should read all the posts above doh!

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Cheers, that makes me feel better. I'll step away from the PC and do some gardening.

Any idea whether we have to leave the computers on and connected to Strava, or is it better to shut down and start again later?

 

[morrisman]

Just been out to visit No. 1 son in his supported living house to drop a camera off with him for his hols. Nice 32 mile round trip Wendover - Winslow - Wendover at >15mph. The trip now has me at 3000.74 miles for the year which was my original target for the year (well not the 0.74 bit). Would post the Strava but it seems to be broken at the mo.

Onwards and Upwards

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Any idea whether we have to leave the computers on and connected to Strava, or is it better to shut down and start again later?

Just disconnect if you want any failed uploads wont work, so just upload it when its working.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Any idea whether we have to leave the computers on and connected to Strava, or is it better to shut down and start again later?

Well I shut down and tried again, of course it couldn't find any New activity when I fired it up again. Went to files and brought up today's ride manually but it paused again. It's currently off.

 

[Stonechat]

Another nice ride
Went up through Chbham up the Red Road toFrimley outskirts
The Red Road is a slow burner - long and gradually increasing. The gradients are not too bad but when cycling into the wind it seems worse than it looks
Misjudged it in the past but think i am stronger now
round throug Pribright, Old Woking - somehow never seen the Mosque, - the oldest in Britain,
41.58 miles at 15.36 mph and 1266 feet of climbing
Strava is on go slow again so will waitin for it to upload properly

Overall was quite windy and once when heading east was going into the wind
HOwever wind was mainly a southwesterly direction

EDIT
Here it is finally uploaded
http://app.strava.com/activities/174776601
Some PRs not looked too much yet (been watching Geraint win gold )