Silly STRAVA Racing

[Col5632]

My old 305 got detected as a 205 (probably because I dont use the cadence sensor much) and often now as an 800 (if the last ride I uploaded was from my 800); thats's some upgrade

Quite an upgrade indeed, the first ride i uploaded worked fine but now it says iphone app and for some reason strava uses slightly different figures from what garmin use

 

[HLaB]

Quite an upgrade indeed, the first ride i uploaded worked fine but now it says iphone app and for some reason strava uses slightly different figures from what garmin use

Not sure what it is but Strava calculates moving speed slightly different and if its a route with a lot of pauses average speed can be down by 0.1-0.2mph, it similar with top speed. IIRC gc has my average at 15.8mph for Flanders and strava is 15.7mph average and similarly max 38.1mph (GC) 37.9mph (strava). Strava seems to consistently gives a larger climb, ie but it was close for Flanders, 6592ft (strava) compared to 6584ft (GC); iirc the difference can be upto 500ft.

 

[potsy]

Ooh, just got a 2nd on a local segment, only 2 seconds off kom

Scalped a young lad on a bmx in the process

 

[Col5632]

Not sure what it is but Strava calculates moving speed slightly different and if its a route with a lot of pauses average speed can be down by 0.1-0.2mph, it similar with top speed. IIRC gc has my average at 15.8mph for Flanders and strava is 15.7mph average and similarly max 38.1mph (GC) 37.9mph (strava). Strava seems to consistently gives a larger climb, ie but it was close for Flanders, 6592ft (strava) compared to 6584ft (GC); iirc the difference can be upto 500ft.

It's mad cause you are sharing garmin data with strava so you would expect it to be the same

 

[HLaB]

It's mad cause you are sharing garmin data with strava so you would expect it to be the same

That was with the 800 unit, the difference reported using identical data from the 305 unit

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I just tried properly for my first KOM in a few weeks, I raised my average by 3mph but came unclipped TWICE and missed out by 1 second! http://app.strava.com/segments/1582214

 

[4F]

Not sure what it is but Strava calculates moving speed slightly different and if its a route with a lot of pauses average speed can be down by 0.1-0.2mph, it similar with top speed

Yep I experienced this last year. The first time ever I got my cateye to show I had averaged 20 on my commute home and when I uploaded it to Strava it showed as 19.9

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I just replaced my phone GPS upload with data from the same ride from my proper GPS and lost 2mph average on a segment.

Opps.

I guess it's more accurate though.

 

[HLaB]

I just replaced my phone GPS upload with data from the same ride from my proper GPS and lost 2mph average on a segment.

Opps.

I guess it's more accurate though.

Was it an iphone, folk say their gps is pretty bad.

 

[Col5632]

Was it an iphone, folk say their gps is pretty bad.

tbf my iphone hasnt been bad, distance to work according to garmin is 5.19 and iphone was usually there or there abouts

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Was it an iphone, folk say their gps is pretty bad.

Android, I try not to think about how many of my KOMs I got due to dicky GPS on my various Android devices!

 

[Edwardoka]

My Garmin Edge 500 was playing very funny buggers on the commute this morning. Said I was doing 22-26mph when I hadn't warmed up and was barely turning the pedals. Did the IT Crowd trick and it resolved itself into numbers which were less flattering but more accurate

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I've got my garmin edge to automatically upload data to strava but since yesterday under device its saying iphone app and not garmin edge 200 anybody know why?

Garmin sync does that for some reason.

 

[Rob3rt]

This happens because the data uploaded to Garmin Connect from your device is in the .FIT format, which contains all of the recorded information. Garmin Sync and similar services download the file from Garmin Connect in .tcx format which is a cut down version, this omits device information and temperature etc, it then uploads the .tcx file into Strava. If there is no device information, Strava probably just assumes it came from their app.

 

[4F]

Nice, my first ever armchair KOM http://app.strava.com/segments/3703820