Silly STRAVA Racing

[Ben Lowe]

I've also tweaked my Alternative Leaderboard page (placing by average speed rather than time due to the start and end points of people's attempts at segments not being the same) so you can look to see if your current PR on a segment is actually your real PR. Previously it would just compare people's current PR's from the top 50 of the Strava leaderboard.
http://veloviewer.com/NewLeaderboard.php
Only makes sense on short (under 1km) and straight segments where you get very little GPS drift so the difference in distance covered is due to the fluctuations in where the start/end positions are. One for the real maths/strava geeks out there! The context segment the page loads with should give you a good idea of what it's on about and clicking on the rider name takes you to the Strava page that shows the little blue line for each rider so if you click on 2 different riders you can see for yourself the discrepancies in line length.

 

[gaz]

hmmm, might have to tweek your stats and add 10% to all your figures ;-)
Just as a comparison for you I've just run a query on the data and the best figure on the VeloViewer books is 0.08% from one of my many Norwegian users. Something to aim at!

oooo. I got a 0.09% albeit it's a stupidly short segment.

 

[Hacienda71]

oooo. I got a 0.09% albeit it's a stupidly short segment.

Well if I'm getting 10% added you need 20% then.

 

[jdtate101]

Someone nabbed one of my short uphill sprint KOMs this morning, so lunch time came and I grabbed it right back again , must have pissed him right off....

 

[smutchin]

I just got a notification that I lost a KOM. But I didn't even know the segment existed! Must be one of those that someone created recently and I got a backdated KOM on.

And another! Two KOMs lost in one day on segments I didn't even know existed! This is getting silly.

Bit of a daft one this - 9.7% average gradient but just 0.1km. And I've lost it by one measly second! I've never pushed that hard up it as I don't consider long enough to be segment-worthy, but since someone has laid down the challenge...

http://app.strava.com/segments/2294691

d.

 

[fenlandpsychocyclist]

Spotted an interesting segment today while browsing the site. Starts in a cul-de-sac (so you'd never find it by chance), and it's been ridden 47 times, all by the same person.

Now I'm not sure whether stealing that KOM would be mean-spirited or really funny

Yea go for it.
If its corners, junctions, etc it may be better to do it on a mountain bike??

 

[gaz]

And another! Two KOMs lost in one day on segments I didn't even know existed! This is getting silly.

Bit of a daft one this - 9.7% average gradient but just 0.1km. And I've lost it by one measly second! I've never pushed that hard up it as I don't consider long enough to be segment-worthy, but since someone has laid down the challenge...

http://app.strava.com/segments/2294691

d.

I'll be trying that one shortly

I've also lost 4 KOM's this week, not impressed :/

 

[Ben Lowe]

oooo. I got a 0.09% albeit it's a stupidly short segment.

have you tried my http://veloviewer.com/NewLeaderboard.php page with that segment? Get some interesting info from that around who actually went the fastest over the segment (rather than the quickest time), need your maths head on to understand why though!

 

[RussellZero]

Is this good for your health? Discovered Strava the other day, went out for a ride tonight knowing roughly where the strava segments are (although missing the ones I wanted by misjudging the start and end points - must study the maps more), and over a 30k ride lost over 4.5 minutes over previous best! Amazing incentive, but spent all the time between segments trying to get breath back and recover. Think I need to find somewhere quiet to get into the top 10 though, the New Forest is pretty busy with mamils like me on strava! Loving it....

 

[Hacienda71]

Grrr that Joe Skipper character has just got Mereheath Lane off me by 1 second I need to get some training in.

 

[Hacienda71]

Grrr that Joe Skipper character has just got Mereheath Lane off me by 1 second I need to get some training in.

Damn just googled my opposition seems he is a national triathlon champ and former Elite Team BMC racer.

Thinking my training will need to be intense

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Damn just googled my opposition seems he is a national triathlon champ and former Elite Team BMC racer.

Thinking my training will need to be intense

Think how good you'll feel when you beat him

 

[Hacienda71]

Think how good you'll feel when you beat him

I knew he was a decent triathlete, just not quite how good, or that he was quite so strong on the bike. He is on a lot of segments around here.
Hey I only have to make up one second. Yeah I can do this

 

[caimg]

Just wanted to add to this thread my joy of finally improving my PB around the Regents Park loop in London...set my previous PB back in May and had been unable to match it until 2 days ago...shaved 17 seconds off my PB and managed 20.75mph for my 7m54 lap. I now lie an all-conquering joint 477th out of 1116

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I was watching the Tour of Britain as it rattled through nearby Woodbridge and noticed that it looked like they nipped through a segment that mattobrien of this parish is currently KOM for, but looking at the stats he's still on top http://app.strava.com/segments/1034589

mattobrien = faster than Cav, officially