Silly STRAVA Racing

[gaz]

My most impressive May stat is 29 KOM's from beginning May to now.

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Only 26 KOM's for me this month

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Only 26 KOM's for me this month

Turn that frown upside down! That's pretty epic!

 

[tug benson]

Quite glad I'm not KOM on this segment

Front page of the local paper, it`s a dogging hotspot...word of mouth you understand

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Front page of the local paper, it`s a dogging hotspot...word of mouth you understand

What you do outside your life on CC is your business Tug. Who are we to judge?

 

[potsy]

Wish I had segments with only 12 people on them Nice KOM though, someone take a whip to Potsy!

http://app.strava.com/segments/904401

Just having a look back on this thread the other night, amazing how segments change a year on, fossy was kom and is now down in 7th.
12 participants becomes 64, and more amazingly I knocked about 10 seconds off my pb, eventually

 

[Andrew_P]

http://app.strava.com/segments/904401

Just having a look back on this thread the other night, amazing how segments change a year on, fossy was kom and is now down in 7th.
12 participants becomes 64, and more amazingly I knocked about 10 seconds off my pb, eventually

Blimey thought my account had been hacked didn't remember posting that recently.


Shows how much Strava has caught on though, wonder how they are going to keep it fresh though? I sent a suggestion that KOM's should be monthly or weekly to try remove some of the extreme weather assistance.

 

[uclown2002]

Just completed my first 1000 miles in a single month

1030 miles to be exact over 60 hours riding. Useful benchmark to aim for during summer.

 

[Spartak]

Commute to work today, different route home in the sunshine, which also gave me plenty of PR's

http://app.strava.com/activities/57281667

 

[400bhp]

http://app.strava.com/segments/904401

Just having a look back on this thread the other night, amazing how segments change a year on, fossy was kom and is now down in 7th*.
12 participants becomes 64, and more amazingly I knocked about 10 seconds off my pb, eventually

*Broadly interpreted as:- Fossy is pretty rubbish and only goes for segments where there aren't many riders-appears not to be able to mix it with the big boys.


Blatant Goading

 

[gaz]

http://app.strava.com/activities/57698629 Epic ride! his comment

Hi guys, thanks for all the support and all the kudos, never thought I was going to receive so many reactions.
All these reactions deserve a little report. Just to clarify, this was a race with over 300 participants. You could join as a team with a max of 8 riders or as individual. Among them there were 49 solo riders, I was one of them, in two age groups (18-45y and 45+). The point was to ride as many k's in 24 hours on the race track of Zolder.
If you were riding in team, only one rider could be on the track at the same time, when this guy was tired he went in the pitlane to change rider. As a solo rider I only went in the pitlane to refuel my water and to eat a bit. Some of the solo riders also had a team who were around them all the time, the guy who won didn't had to do any km in the wind there was always at least one guy around him to support.
The first 12 hours I was in the lead with an average of 39km/hour. I was just riding along with the peloton. My plan was to win, so I thought the best way to win was going hard from the start. I didn't had a team to support me with water bottles or food so I always lost time everytime I went in the pitlane. At around 3 o'clock in the night, I met the guy with the hammer, I couldn't go faster as 20 km/hour and I was falling asleep on my bike. Just note I was awake from 6 o'clock that morning, as I do not live close to the track. I didn't had a camper or caravan to rest, just a small car to sleep in that was jammed with supplies and bike equipment. I slept 2 hours and dragged myself back on my bike, on top of that it was freezing cold and had to wear my thermojacket until sunset. After these two hours of sleep, I felt behind and was racing 5th place, but the gap was relatively small with 3rd place, so I went for it and rode another 10 hours straight in the peloton and stranded 3 laps (+/- 12km) from 3rd place.
My brother, David Vandenbussche, was 6th and rode only 25km less then me. My friend, Lieven Van Beneden, was 14th, but congratulation to all of the solo riders. It was extremely hard and you hit the wall multiple times. Cycling is not for whiners, but for winners.
I will probably not participate next year as a solo rider but as a team. My brother wants to win next year, and we are going to make that happen.
Just a side note, the winner rode 844 km and rode 24hours straight, I ate 12 plane waffles, 4 gels, 6 sugar waffles, drank 6 water bottles, 4 aquarius, one bowl of pasta and one bowl of muesli. And afterwards a bag of salt chips and kebab.
If I inspired anybody, please participate next year and hopefully I met one of you next year:

 

[Sittingduck]

Can't believe he only had a few waffles... mental

 

[Kiwiavenger]

2 PR's this morning! loved it, felt nice

 

[TheJDog]

PR and 10th overall on a longish uphill segment last night. However, that has been tempered by my 30 day premium trial. I'm pretty much at the end of the 35-44 age segment, and filtering by age is just awful. I drop from middling to bottom in nearly every segment

 

[ohnovino]

http://app.strava.com/activities/57698629 Epic ride!

Max speed 60.8mph looks dodgy to me, I think we should all flag the ride

 

[DCLane]

Got this one today http://app.strava.com/segments/2813055 - OK, so only 2 others have ridden it, but I've knocked over 4 minutes off.