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

[Nomadski]

Some great rides people ^^ Well done.

@Mo1959 the day I take Strava's word on anything will be the day hell freezes over!! Think its algorithms are potty as hell.

Did a flat ride via the superhighways which turned into a bit of a waiting game....waiting for all the red lights to turn green that is. 1 hour 58 mins with NINETEEN minutes of that waiting at traffic lights (the only time I wasn't moving).

http://app.strava.com/activities/68513667

 

[SWSteve]

@Phoenix Lincs sorry to hear about the off, hopefully nothing too bad.
@Mo1959 well done with the challenge! Maybe you should give me some metres as today's ride doesn't seem to be adding to my total again...

 

[Nigelnaturist]

None of them are all that accurate but I usually go on the lower one, which for me is Strava. I think the Garmin is a bit over optimistic.

Yea but strava is also lower on elevation than anything else, but you do right to take the lowest value, from my own data I am looking at about 40cals/mile this has actually been going down as I have got fitter, using the same system since Jan when it was about 50cals/min

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Some great rides people ^^ Well done.

@Mo1959 the day I take Strava's word on anything will be the day hell freezes over!! Think its algorithms are potty as hell.

Did a flat ride via the superhighways which turned into a bit of a waiting game....waiting for all the red lights to turn green that is. 1 hour 58 mins with NINETEEN minutes of that waiting at traffic lights (the only time I wasn't moving).



http://app.strava.com/activities/68513667

73 trophys! Great going

@Phoenix Lincs sorry to hear about the off, hopefully nothing too bad.
@Mo1959 well done with the challenge! Maybe you should give me some metres as today's ride doesn't seem to be adding to my total again...

Admit it, you didn't go out, you sat on the setee and watched the cricket and the Tour. Seriously, have you tried deleting the ride and re-uploading it?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Yea but strava is also lower on elevation than anything else, but you do right to take the lowest value, from my own data I am looking at about 40cals/mile this has actually been going down as I have got fitter, using the same system since Jan when it was about 50cals/min

Strava regarding elevation is awful. I did a ride last week were it said I did circa 300 feet of climbing, the elevation on the segments alone added up to over 500 feet.

 

[Mo1959]

@Phoenix Lincs sorry to hear about the off, hopefully nothing too bad.
@Mo1959 well done with the challenge! Maybe you should give me some metres as today's ride doesn't seem to be adding to my total again...

Looks like it has. You are nearly there.

 

[Nomadski]

Strava regarding elevation is awful. I did a ride last week were it said I did circa 300 feet of climbing, the elevation on the segments alone added up to over 500 feet.

The last night ride I did I paused the Garmin, had a cuppa, when I started it, Strava decided to add 150 ft to my location!

When 3 of us were together on London to Brighton, 2 of us had an elevation gain 2x as much as it should have been until it was corrected, and the others best climb was a descent!

Only reason I use Strava is its quite fun and it seems to integrate with a lot of stuff (Veloviewer etc), for actual data I just use Garmin Connect.

@Mo1959 forgot to give a shout out for your climbing challenge completion, but well done, can you take a pic of the badge when it arrives? Amazing achievement.

@Supersuperleeds Cheers mate, it was very stop start with the lights, but I feel I did about 100 sprints today!

 

[Mo1959]

@Mo1959 forgot to give a shout out for your climbing challenge completion, but well done, can you take a pic of the badge when it arrives? Amazing achievement.

Still got 1% to go. I might fall flat on my face when I go out the door tomorrow. Lol Shouldn't really joke about such things.

 

[Nomadski]

Still got 1% to go. I might fall flat on my face when I go out the door tomorrow. Lol Shouldn't really joke about such things.

Ah Mo you laugh in the face of 1%!

 

[Mo1959]

Would just have popped back out and done a little ride this afternoon, but I want to go over and pay for my drink that the girl kindly provided on an IOU this morning. Think she was maybe a schoolgirl doing a weekend job so she may have put it in the till herself so don't want her to be out of pocket.

 

[RWright]

What is so weird with Strava data is that it doesn't seem to be consistently wrong in a certain direction, sometimes it seems to add too much other times it subtracts too much. Hard to figure. All I know is that now I want my damn Rapha roundel, whatever that is. I want to see the sales pitch that comes with it.

 

[RWright]

Would just have popped back out and done a little ride this afternoon, but I want to go over and pay for my drink that the girl kindly provided on an IOU this morning. Think she was maybe a schoolgirl doing a weekend job so she may have put it in the till herself so don't want her to be out of pocket.

Give her a tip.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

As bad as the ride was I still got two p.b's
this was a nice one
http://app.strava.com/activities/68528648#1322302004

 

[Nomadski]

Take a look at this segment to see how badly Strava gets it wrong -

http://app.strava.com/segments/1227878

This is a flat road. Not a 20% climb, not a Cat 4 as stated. Flat.

 

[Mo1959]

Take a look at this segment to see how badly Strava gets it wrong -

http://app.strava.com/segments/1227878

This is a flat road. Not a 20% climb, not a Cat 4 as stated. Flat.

Although I enjoy the fun of Strava, it is a real shame that it isn't more accurate.