Silly STRAVA Racing
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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How come strava can be so bloody stupid at times?
There is a segment that someone has as a loop around the loch where I am staying at the moment (36.3km) - starts at a guess from their home about 3km down the road from here. http://app.strava.com/activities/45809635#789606653
Usually I cycle pass the start, but never come back to end of it... but today because I wanted another photo chance for a really nice shot I had seen earlier in the day, we continued and crossed the end point of the strava segment and having also done a circuit of the loch, it has counted me as having done the segment. the fact that I actually did rather a lot more than the segment because the segment actually leaves the "main" road I stayed on, went to the end, turned around and then came back to turn off down said road is totally beside the point. I also had lunch part way through, did some shopping at the local spar later on and stopped to take whole loads of photos because the light has been fantastic today.
End result. I have a QOM of 4hrs 16 mins (and an overall 2nd place) compared to the 1st place and KOM of 1hr 2mins (personally I would be ecstatic to have something that was half that pace, but it seems to have missed the point entirely that I have actually done considerably more distance on 'another course' and decided to award me a QOM on the merit of being the only female to have done this 'loop'... madness.... his loop is 36.3km on a road bike (I assume) and last summer. mine is 65.6km on a mountain bike with studded winter tyres in winter/snow/blizzards and with a horrendous head wind for half of it (my uphill speed onto Rannoch Moor is actually faster than my downhill speed off Rannoch Moor due to the headwind/tailwind issues today)...
madness....total madness.
(I don't want to hide the ride, mark it as private etc because I did get 2 other QOM's today as well as a 3rd PR, but it is a touch embarrassing/humiliating being in 2nd place and some 4 times slower!)
There is a segment that someone has as a loop around the loch where I am staying at the moment (36.3km) - starts at a guess from their home about 3km down the road from here. http://app.strava.com/activities/45809635#789606653
Usually I cycle pass the start, but never come back to end of it... but today because I wanted another photo chance for a really nice shot I had seen earlier in the day, we continued and crossed the end point of the strava segment and having also done a circuit of the loch, it has counted me as having done the segment. the fact that I actually did rather a lot more than the segment because the segment actually leaves the "main" road I stayed on, went to the end, turned around and then came back to turn off down said road is totally beside the point. I also had lunch part way through, did some shopping at the local spar later on and stopped to take whole loads of photos because the light has been fantastic today.
End result. I have a QOM of 4hrs 16 mins (and an overall 2nd place) compared to the 1st place and KOM of 1hr 2mins (personally I would be ecstatic to have something that was half that pace, but it seems to have missed the point entirely that I have actually done considerably more distance on 'another course' and decided to award me a QOM on the merit of being the only female to have done this 'loop'... madness.... his loop is 36.3km on a road bike (I assume) and last summer. mine is 65.6km on a mountain bike with studded winter tyres in winter/snow/blizzards and with a horrendous head wind for half of it (my uphill speed onto Rannoch Moor is actually faster than my downhill speed off Rannoch Moor due to the headwind/tailwind issues today)...
madness....total madness. (I don't want to hide the ride, mark it as private etc because I did get 2 other QOM's today as well as a 3rd PR, but it is a touch embarrassing/humiliating being in 2nd place and some 4 times slower!)
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
Strava just looks to see if you have done at least 75% of the segment, this may mean you take a slightly different route but you still get on the leader board.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Lol a bloke scalped me when I was on a slow warm down; I let him go and continued my warm down. Then he ran a red light and that was like a red rag to a bull 
I waited for green (only ever takes a few secs at these lights and chased him down. Then had a SMIDSY on the following rbt (the two outer entry lanes gave way to me, circulating but numpty in the inside lane decided to undertake them) dodged him and dodged the SMIDSY on exit (probably had their visibility obscured to me by the first SMIDSY), its hatched (Fire Station access) on a tight bend so I slowed a bit and then and sprinted up the hill into a bit headwind. It felt quite fast, the fastest I'd done it? so I made a segment on the safe post roundabout/ hatching section but apparently I was a second faster, also on the fixie back in Jan 
I waited for green (only ever takes a few secs at these lights and chased him down. Then had a SMIDSY on the following rbt (the two outer entry lanes gave way to me, circulating but numpty in the inside lane decided to undertake them) dodged him and dodged the SMIDSY on exit (probably had their visibility obscured to me by the first SMIDSY), its hatched (Fire Station access) on a tight bend so I slowed a bit and then and sprinted up the hill into a bit headwind. It felt quite fast, the fastest I'd done it? so I made a segment on the safe post roundabout/ hatching section but apparently I was a second faster, also on the fixie back in Jan
OP
OP
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
2 KOM's today and a 5th (road section done on a MTB) - Now to knock Potsy off that joint 5th 
Pedrosanchezo
Veteran
- Location
- Perthshire, scotland
Poor Potsy is bullied by you lot.2 KOM's today and a 5th (road section done on a MTB) - Now to knock Potsy off that joint 5th
OP
OP
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Poor Potsy is bullied by you lot.
We leave his Park KOMS alone !
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Pedrosanchezo
Veteran
- Location
- Perthshire, scotland
Best served it chilled.
I'll have my revenge
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
Annual strava summary - http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/annualSummary.php
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
It may be cookie based. so when you go back it will have remembered. although i can't check that till i get back home.
