Silly STRAVA Racing

[MrJamie]

I feel like im sat around helplessly waiting for people to find and destroy my feeble KOMs as another email hits my inbox. Todays one beat me by 30sec over a 1.5mile trail and his picture with a silly TT aero helmet and filled in wheels makes me think Ill not bother trying to take it back

whats a kom or qom, im guessing there some sort of best?

And does the app automatically realise youve done a segment and does it auto update it on the leaderboard or is there something I must do

King Of the Mountain, Queen Of the Mountain, although a lot of segments are flat At the end of the ride, strava will upload your ride to the website and try to match any segments you go through, it isnt perfect but its not bad.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

What's a CR? On ones profile there's a tab that is labelled 'KOMs / CRs'.

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

What's a CR? On ones profile there's a tab that is labelled 'KOMs / CRs'.

Course record. for the runners out there. Kom, in this instance, is purely a cycling term.

 

[Kiwiavenger]

got stuck at temporary lights on the first climb today. made worse by then being passed by a bloke on the flat with a cheery "good morning" who then Contadored it up through the segment!! i stuck with him through most of the climb Froome stylie but cracked near the top of the climb when it ramps up again he was a lot slimmer than me and on a carbon trek so it wasnt too embarrasing!

was 1 1/2 minutes slower on the sector though but was stopped for the lights for a while (slowing and starting is fun on hills!)

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Course record. for the runners out there. Kom, in this instance, is purely a cycling term.

Ta!

 

[ohnovino]

Drafted a bus all the way through a segment. Decided that wasn't really fair, so I doubled back and tried it again unassisted. When I got home and uploaded the ride, it turned out the bus was holding me up and I was quicker on my own

Only got second place, but the KOM is held by a freak with some Pro-Tour-esque times, so I'll settle for "best of the rest".

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Only got second place, but the KOM is held by a freak with some Pro-Tour-esque times, so I'll settle for "best of the rest".

It has been reported by several others in this thread, but the pro tour passed through our local Strava hunting ground!

 

[gaz]

WHAT THE!!!! - http://app.strava.com/rides/22748157#

 

[potsy]

WHAT THE!!!! - http://app.strava.com/rides/22748157#

 

[ianrauk]

WHAT THE!!!! - http://app.strava.com/rides/22748157#

Has it been recorded with one of those new Iphone thingys?

 

[Hacienda71]

mmmmmm top speed looks legit

 

[gavintc]

All my Italian KOM achievements from my 2 years over there are slowly being eroded as more Italians take to Strava. However, I have noticed a fair number of KOMs going to English looking names.

 

[Sittingduck]

Got a 5th on Portnalls Rd this morning - I'll take that! I suppose it won't take long before I slip down the rankings... I don't really fancy trying to better today's assault, as I was going flat out from the very start.

 

[Hacienda71]

I picked up a couple of KOM's and a couple of top tens this afternoon on a bit of an urban blast . Not my normal sort of ride but I need to keep up with the Manc commuters.

 

[craven2354]

Them Manc commuters have put me in 192nd place on one means I'll have to go back and try