Silly STRAVA Racing

[Peter Armstrong]

Grrrrrrrrr Go claim your rightfull KOM's

 

[gaz]

Level with you on 'Bedford Hill (just the Climb)' now! Not working today, rode a couple of laps round Richmond Park and thought I'd have a crack at it on the way home!

Erm... so I tried it again...... and got joint top also got KOM on the longer section http://app.strava.com/segments/1573602
Happy with that considering there was a 8mph headwind and it was damp

 

[thefollen]

Erm... so I tried it again...... and got joint top also got KOM on the longer section http://app.strava.com/segments/1573602
Happy with that considering there was a 8mph headwind and it was damp

Excellent effort! Friday legs too. Was this on the carbon??

 

[gaz]

Excellent effort! Friday legs too. Was this on the carbon??

Yeah. I should be able to do a similar time on the single speed, would be super spiny though.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Been eying a Stretch in Peterborough for some time, I arrive in the city and find temporary Roadworks with traffic lights.

 

[pally83]

Gutted. Went out for a gentle 'ride with mother' earlier that was cut short due to rain. Since the pace was so slow, I easily had the legs to attack a cat 4 climb that I'm 8th on. Went a bit too late and ended up with nothing. Boo. Hiss. I blame the parent.

 

[HLaB]

Been eying a Stretch in Peterborough for some time, I arrive in the city and find temporary Roadworks with traffic lights.

Oundle Road or Thorpe Road until recently there's been two set of light on the former and one set suddenly appeared a few days ago on the latter The only thing moving is a bike

 

[Hacienda71]

Got one early on my ride today. Much more chuffed with my times on the big climbs I did though. Weird but coming in the top 20% on a 5 mile climb that has been used for the national hill climb gives me that incentive to push that bit harder than a one mile flat segment you know you will be there or thereabouts on. Probably because I am a big lad and climbing doesn't come naturally. Sorry I seem to be waffling.

 

[SoloCyclist]

Got another three today, but one segment I went for I got my bearings wrong and wasn't actually in the segment, went too soon. So I just created my own segment where I was trying and scored a 1st place but no crown as it's a new segment. :-)

On to my 3rd page of KOMs now :-)

http://app.strava.com/athletes/609367/segments/leader

Edit: looking at that KOM page link, I got 5 today including the one I created and a hidden one. keeps on getting better.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Oundle Road or Thorpe Road until recently there's been two set of light on the former and one set suddenly appeared a few days ago on the latter The only thing moving is a bike

It was Thorpe road, and I had a tailwind

I tried to improve my time at the rowing lake but it was thick pedestrians.

 

[HLaB]

I tried to improve my time at the rowing lake but it was thick pedestrians.

I've never got a clear run by the rowing lake, its always mobbed and I'm too lazy to get out of my bed at dawn I'm guessing that's when the KOM got it.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I'm going to try for PB tomorrow morning, no chance of KOM on my single speed

 

[doctornige]

There are a lot of KOM excuses here. Contrary to some other posters, for me, I am finding that I cannot bag a certain elusive KOM because I am not FIT, FAST and BRAVE enough to maintain 30mph *down* this year's National Hill Climb course. I am 4 seconds off a certain version of that segment, and today only put in a 3rd PB, despite everything in my favour (low wind, no traffic, able to take racing line on bends). Hell, I even came close to wraxing a Fulcrum Racing 5 on a Catseye in pursuit of this goal. I felt fast all the way, and still FAILED. Reason? Not fast enough.

Corollary: my fastest time was set while being chased down the hill by a German tour coach. Maybe if someone was chasing me with something like an 18-wheeler, I might be motivated to go quicker!

N.

PS, it totally crossed my mine to switch my friendly "Hello" to passing fellow roadies with a tortured scream of "STRAAAAAVAAAAA!!!!"

 

[Andrew_Culture]

PS, it totally crossed my mine to switch my friendly "Hello" to passing fellow roadies with a tortured scream of "STRAAAAAVAAAAA!!!!"

Brilliant!

 

[Hacienda71]

There are a lot of KOM excuses here. Contrary to some other posters, for me, I am finding that I cannot bag a certain elusive KOM because I am not FIT, FAST and BRAVE enough to maintain 30mph *down* this year's National Hill Climb course. I am 4 seconds off a certain version of that segment, and today only put in a 3rd PB, despite everything in my favour (low wind, no traffic, able to take racing line on bends). Hell, I even came close to wraxing a Fulcrum Racing 5 on a Catseye in pursuit of this goal. I felt fast all the way, and still FAILED. Reason? Not fast enough.

Corollary: my fastest time was set while being chased down the hill by a German tour coach. Maybe if someone was chasing me with something like an 18-wheeler, I might be motivated to go quicker!

N.

PS, it totally crossed my mine to switch my friendly "Hello" to passing fellow roadies with a tortured scream of "STRAAAAAVAAAAA!!!!"

I was going up Long Hill this morning. I can't seem to get that KOM of Mike Cumming lol
All I need to do is work out how to sustain an extra 50 watts for 15 minutes and lose about two stone of me and the bike.