Silly STRAVA Racing

[Mapster1989]

For now im just enjoying getting PR's.

That's what I use it for. It's great to get on the leaderboard but to beat your previous times is a sign that you're getting better. Just annoying when you're out and you think "Yep. That's a PB for sure," to get back and realise that you were miles quicker last time out. Happened to me the other day.

 

[Risex4]

That's what I use it for. It's great to get on the leaderboard but to beat your previous times is a sign that you're getting better.

+1

Just annoying when you're out and you think "Yep. That's a PB for sure," to get back and realise that you were miles quicker last time out. Happened to me the other day.

Especially when you remember the ride you set said PB on, and it was a casual spin/recovery ride/hangover punisher where you know you most definately were not even trying to put the speed down when you did it.

Now you thrash away time and again, cursing every gust of sidewind, pothole and wobbly pedestrian that makes you tap the brakes for the lost .01s, completely and utterly at as loss as to how in the blue hell you ever set the time in the first place without even trying...

In fact, this kind of thing has irratated me so much, that I've taken to now only uploading the Garmin once a week; the daily doses of disappointment were getting too hard to bare!

 

[Mapster1989]

Now you thrash away time and again, cursing every gust of sidewind, pothole and wobbly pedestrian that makes you tap the brakes for the lost .01s, completely and utterly at as loss as to how in the blue hell you ever set the time in the first place without even trying...

Yeah. Exactly that.

 

[HLaB]

Missed out on an armchair KOM by 1 sec; I'm pretty sure I could beat it as was my one and only go, I was on the heavy SS and halfway into a 113miler; I dont know when I'll be passing that way again though, it was when I was working temp down in Chelmsford.

 

[Crankarm]

Missed out on an armchair KOM by 1 sec; I'm pretty sure I could beat it as was my one and only go, I was on the heavy SS and halfway into a 113miler; I dont know when I'll be passing that way again though, it was when I was working temp down in Chelmsford.

Apparently LA has a few Strava KoM wins .................................

 

[HLaB]

Apparently LA has a few Strava KoM wins .................................

Its Steve Lampier who has most of the round here and I dont think his are tainted either

 

[Spartak]

Podium place for me today

3rd place & an average speed over the 1.5km segment of 40km/h !!!

http://app.strava.com/segments/3461913

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

just done great ride - weather was stunning. 100.31km and silly strava has it has 99.9km! (most likely the way I am joining the gpx files together it is loosing some data somehow, somewhere - may have to have another try tomorrow... so settling for my garmin edge's 100.31km and claiming the "100km in a day" mark in the recovery (just please don't ask me to do anything whatsoever tomorrow please.... )

beautiful day for a long ride and fairly quiet roads as well. no issues with any drivers and many staying put and waiting for me including 2 horse riders as I was dragging myself up a long incline and rather than ride out in front of me, they waited for several minutes and let me get clear. - lots of people got thank yous alround today. Set out in spring 3/4 shorts, and did the first 2 sections in shorts until it went dark then went back to my winter longs.

http://app.strava.com/activities/41564583
managed to get 17 strava cups with that including a 2nd place on a cat 4 climb (helps considerably that there are only 3 women on this segment! ).... so definitely silly on many many counts not least of all 99.9km instead of 100.31km and for thinking I can climb hills when I can not! Oh and to make life even more fun, I did the entire thing with 2 rear panniers!

 

[gaz]

Hadn't done an update on veloviewer in a while. 1141 worse placings :/

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Hadn't done an update on veloviewer in a while. 1141 worse placings :/

yikes - how many were better though?

 

[Matthew_T]

Got second on one segment and fourth on another. I really pushed it on only those two though. I think I will push on just one segment each time I go out now, it seems to get a good result.

 

[gaz]

yikes - how many were better though?

Around 20 or so.

 

[gaz]

FYI a strava challenge starts in 5 days time - http://app.strava.com/challenges/cyclingtips-february-fifteen

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Around 20 or so.

might be worth refraining from that update in future or at least doing it more often so it does not feel quite so bad!

 

[Matthew_T]

FYI a strava challenge starts in 5 days time - http://app.strava.com/challenges/cyclingtips-february-fifteen

For some reason it isnt listed on the Challenges page. I only joined it because you had.