Silly STRAVA Racing

[Sittingduck]

Sunday morning cyclists Gaz? Snatch the KOM at 6am on a Sunday!

 

[400bhp]

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 :/

Pass the segment on to the police

 

[endoman]

2 KOM's today aided by the Northerly, and a pb up a little ramp near home, the training is making a difference at last.

 

[mattobrien]

Balance and order have been restored to the world. Just managed to grab 2 KoM's and another PB (2nd in segment). KoM's were both a reasonable distance and with a reasonable no.of other riders having completed (45 and 50);
Witnesham 30
Ashbocking 2 Witnesham

The other PB is especially sweet as Mr Andrew Culture of CC fame recently grabbed an equal time to me on it, nice to have a little clear air again
America Hill

Feeling quite happy with my lunchtime's riding. Now best get on and do some work...

 

[Andrew_Culture]

The other PB is especially sweet as Mr Andrew Culture of CC fame recently grabbed an equal time to me on it, nice to have a little clear air again
America Hill

...and I was on a single speed. I've gotta confess, Matt being a couple of positions above does appeal to my sense of cycling justice, he is far fitter than I!

 

[Andrew_P]

Well back from my trip to France, which is depressing. Clocked up 370+ miles without upsetting anyone + quite a few were with the kids in tow which is less depressing

One KOM which is a bit shallow as it has three riders, created two segemnts, not for hollow KOM just to see if any of the B'Twin TT'ers (helmets and snap on bars) used a Garmin. The whole of the second week my eldest daughter was using my Winter/Holiday bike the Boardman CX and I was on her too small for me but with 10 inches of saddle post GT Zum 26" Fat wheeler. I never thought I would utter these words but I scalped one of these fat gits on "my small and heavy 26"Hybrid" after he got the raving hump with us slowing him down on a bloody holiday area cycle path.

Another confession the KoM I did get (out of 3) We had had a headwind for ages so I was teaching her for a few miles before the segement how to draft me (she was on the CX the CX has all the Garmin kit and the Garmin attached) on the pretence of resting her legs, BUT I needed her to keep up with me on the segement to record the time and a few hundred yards before I just said see if you can keep pace with me in my draft, how awful is that lol.

 

[willhub]

I got a lot of top 10 and top 5 yesterday, even a couple of KOMs, suffice to say though, when I went up Rosedale Chimney I nearly got off and walked, I was on 38-25 and could not get the pedals round, my HR would not go above 170 when it should have being hitting 190, I'm considering putting my 34 back on.

http://app.strava.com/rides/20504343

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I just got KOM on this http://app.strava.com/segments/1150985 I feel like a bit of a jerk about it, but alls fair etc etc

 

[MrJamie]

Its getting so hard to defend my KOMs as rivalry is picking up in my local area, theres 3 or 4 of us constantly taking KOMs off eachother on the trails. I did have 12 at one point, now im down to 4 after I woke up this morning to lose another 3 to the same guy, off out now to reclaim my rightful titles!

 

[jefmcg]

The GPS itself even assisted shouldnt use any data, but when you finish a ride it uploads the ride and downloads the segment stats by default which will use data allowance if you dont do it over wifi, probably well under 1megabyte (my .gpx are usually 100-300k) a time though. Other apps like Endomondo do live tracking where they upload your ride to the website while youre going and any tracking app that shows you your location on a map will *probably* be using data to download the map.

You can usually change the settings in the apps or turn cell data off on your phone when you dont need it.

I use 3G watchdog on my Android. Went on a 60km ride, waited until it had uploaded etc.

750kb of data, approximately.

Looks like strava doesn't have the option to turn off uploading, but it seems that if it fails (eg you are in flight mode) then it doesn't try again until you return to the the app. So if your data usage is tight, you could probably hack around it. Or wait until you are on a wifi network before finishing your ride.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I got two KOMs this lunchtime, one was a silly short one but I'm really proud of this one http://app.strava.com/segments/1582214 because as recently ago as April of this year just getting to the top of that hill was a personal victory

 

[potsy]

Any of the locals done this tough climb near Bredbury?

 

[JuanLobbe]

thought I had a PR on a segment this morning only to find that my iPhone reckons it took me twice as long as it actually did. Taking my GPS next time! Grrr

 

[gaz]

Love how I got 8th of a segment I didn't technically do - http://app.strava.com/segments/1394331
When I actually took a different route - http://app.strava.com/rides/20734076#371769404

 

[JuanLobbe]

anyone had problems getting strava to match a private segment against your own rides? Trying to set one up today but only showing the one ride!