Silly STRAVA Racing

[400bhp]

Aaaaah I see, if in doubt, PUSH HARDER!

Was going to have another go at it on the way home, as it annoyed me this morning. It's a relatively easy one to take back. I refrained from doing so as it's not the done thing (new STRAVA unwritten made up rule) to have a go at a segment twice in one day.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Don't you wish the app gave you a warning whenever you were approaching a segment? I'm always 50 yards in before I realise I need to get moving. Would also be handy if it counted down the distance until the segment was over

If I had the cash I'd write a 'Strava Alarm' app.

 

[lejogger]

If I had the cash I'd write a 'Strava Alarm' app.

Surely it's got to be the next big 'must-have' thing on GPS devices. An early warning that counts you down to the start and then counts you down to the finish! Might get tricky on overlapping segments but I'm sure some clever fellow somewhere can sort it out! That's what we pay all that money to Garmin for isn't it?!

 

[HLaB]

Surely it's got to be the next big 'must-have' thing on GPS devices. An early warning that counts you down to the start and then counts you down to the finish! Might get tricky on overlapping segments but I'm sure some clever fellow somewhere can sort it out! That's what we pay all that money to Garmin for isn't it?!

I think you could manually do it with a tcx file ?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I think you could manually do it with a tcx file ?

Possibly, but a dedicated app would be the lazy route for users, so the one they'd possibly choose. I don't know how open the Strava api is though.

I did think about whether I should post about it on here, but even if I offshore the Dev there's no way I can afford to write this app!

 

[defy-one]

All this strava talk .... Have downloaded the app. Must start using.
Another question, any way of loading my Garmin edge 200 data into Strava?
As i need the phone for business,always worried about battery life

 

[redcard]

All this strava talk .... Have downloaded the app. Must start using.
Another question, any way of loading my Garmin edge 200 data into Strava?
As i need the phone for business,always worried about battery life

Is it still on the Garmin? If so you just make an account and download a browser plug in, copy everything over in the one go.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Somebody near here has created a segment from their workplace to their front door. I'm still tempted to try for KOM though...

If anyone else in Ipswich fancies a chuckle - http://app.strava.com/segments/1150985

 

[400bhp]

I'm annoyed.

I went for 4 KoM's this morning and only took one.

#1 - couldn't see as the sun was shining into my eyes-was going too slow. 2 seconds off my best time. Rubbish effort
#2 - KoM, yay
#3 & #4. Feckin slow car drivers held me up. I was so angry I shouted "get on the pavement, you're holding me up" not really & to be fair they were driving at sensible speeds.

#1 reclaimed.

#3 likely to be next week now given the bobbins weather forecast for the rest of the week.

 

[Mushroomgodmat]

All this strava talk .... Have downloaded the app. Must start using.
Another question, any way of loading my Garmin edge 200 data into Strava?
As i need the phone for business,always worried about battery life

works fine, I use the same unit

 

[4F]

If anyone else in Ipswich fancies a chuckle - http://app.strava.com/segments/1150985

LOL, how long do you think it would be until he made that private ? He's not ridden back from work much, 1 ride by 1 person in March

 

[Andrew_Culture]

It's also the path along the river and I don't fancy taking my single speed along there, I might nip around it on my MTB later...

 

[400bhp]

Northerly wind forecast for tomorrow - time to do a couple of segments I haven't done for a while.

 

[HLaB]

Northerly wind forecast for tomorrow - time to do a couple of segments I haven't done for a while.

Somebody has made a new segment down a Roman road which runs almost directly south, now I know its a segment perhaps I should revisit it

 

[gaz]

Eugh... thought I would create a segment along a 4.3mile stretch of CS7... Pretty much all of the top 20 have got a resting time of 0. Considering there are over 30 traffic lights on this segment with at least 1/3 being at major junctions.

RLJers :/