Silly STRAVA Racing

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/map.php

Thank you. that's the one. added to favourites this time.

 

[addictfreak]

Well my health and fitness level must be improving, actually got a KOM today on the mountain bike!


Just checked and the previous holder was from Alabama! Don't think he will be back to claim it anytime soon.

 

[HLaB]

Its nice when you get back from a relaxing an update the velo viewer to find you've got a couple of top 10s and when you look further its from four years ago on my sirrus; it was still flat barred with rack and mudguards then

 

[Nosaj]

I have only just joined strava but one thing that really troubles me....

How do you know that those with the best segment times have not actually run them in a car ?

 

[Rob3rt]

I have only just joined strava but one thing that really troubles me....

How do you know that those with the best segment times have not actually run them in a car ?

You assume people are sportsman like? It is not hard to work out which ones are done in a car either.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I have only just joined strava but one thing that really troubles me....

How do you know that those with the best segment times have not actually run them in a car ?

cars don't need to slow down much for hills.

 

[Nosaj]

You assume people are sportsman like? It is not hard to work out which ones are done in a car either.

Yes I agree I would hope people would be sporting otherwise they are only letting down themselves

And yes after a look just now at Strava you could probably tell as I didn't realise that you can go into the entire ride where they they achived their KOM and view it

 

[Nosaj]

cars don't need to slow down much for hills.

Simplisticly yes but we are talking about deceit here. Obviously a 45mph average up a 15% hill would be a little suspect and you would have to be a little stupid to try and convince anyone that it was not motor assisted. Achieving a KOM at + 1.5mph would not be so easy to disprove especially if you were really deceitful and run say a ten mile loop up to that hill at roughly the speed of a quick TT.

A pointless exercise for most people on Strava I would guess but the cynical side of me says that I bet it has been done and with a little foresight and planning would not be that hard to fake.

By the way If you getting any ideas......a quick look at my Strava times will prove beyond any reasonable doubt that I am not motor assisted in any way....

 

[Risex4]

You assume people are sportsman like? It is not hard to work out which ones are done in a car either.

Yes, I mean err... who would... err... go out and set KOMs... erm... in cars...?

In my defence, it was actually a bus. And I was hungover.

I have only just joined strava but one thing that really troubles me....

On a serious note, you'll always get a few bad apples who outright cheat and do it in a car, or outright cheat and do it behind a car. KOMs are fantasticly fun and Ego-On-A-Stick when you grab them, but the real magic of Strava is racing against yourself.

Aww, doesnt that sound like I almost believe that?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

...By the way If you getting any ideas......a quick look at my Strava times will prove beyond any reasonable doubt that I am not motor assisted in any way....

You have not seen mine... I somewhat strangely have a grand total of 8 QOM's (one advantage of being a female on Strava - 90% strava users are apparently male), rarely average more than 13mph (20-22kph) but do that consistantly irrespective of the length of my ride. I am also useless at climbing at the moment - seem to have lost that skill from when I was on tour. No ideas because I don't have one or access to one during the week (normally) and am too competitive with myself to validate using a car even when I have access to one!

 

[HLaB]

Simplisticly yes but we are talking about deceit here. Obviously a 45mph average up a 15% hill would be a little suspect and you would have to be a little stupid to try and convince anyone that it was not motor assisted.

Lol, I just flagged a ride where folk can get crazy speeds up a hill (because there a sharp downhill before it) many are in the region of 30mph; my mate who is amazing on hills is over 38mph (about 4-5mph faster than anybody else and plausible for him, he's beaten semipros in the past) but somebody beat him by 4mph, the max speed of over 56mph makes me a bit suspicious (I dont know of a local hill where even the best could do better than the low 40 mph's)

 

[4F]

and do it behind a car.

Hang on but a good draft is game on imho.
(But not if it is someone who has gone out with someone they know specifically to do this)

 

[HLaB]

Hang on but a good draft is game on imho.
(But not if it is someone who has gone out with someone they know specifically to do this)

I'm in two moods (as with sombody who uses tri bars etc) they are getting an unfair advantage but on the other hand they've got the nouse, courage, skill talent to use them

 

[Rob3rt]

Hang on but a good draft is game on imho.
(But not if it is someone who has gone out with someone they know specifically to do this)

I'm in two moods (as with sombody who uses tri bars etc) they are getting an unfair advantage but on the other hand they've got the nouse, courage, skill talent to use them

Chaingang's and aero bars count!

 

[Risex4]

Hang on but a good draft is game on imho.
(But not if it is someone who has gone out with someone they know specifically to do this)

Sorry; yes the latter is what I meant. A legitimate draft is clever game.