Silly STRAVA Racing

[Spartak]

Rode the Audax National 400km on Saturday / Sunday.
Tiverton - Chepstow - Tiverton in a roundabout way !

http://app.strava.com/activities/60641152

Lots & lots of segments but not unsurprisingly any top 10's

 

[Matthew_T]

This Strava racing is getting a bit vicious. I am currently in a battle for KOM on this segment: http://app.strava.com/activities/61123176#1146264485 and I keep getting joint with Darren. With a gently tailwind and without being tired, I could easily beat him. Its just a matter of getting the timing, and climate right.
Today I was overheating a lot but did also manage to get 7th on three other segments:
http://app.strava.com/activities/61123176#1146264487
http://app.strava.com/activities/61123176#1146264488
http://app.strava.com/activities/61123176#1146264490

 

[4F]

With a gently tailwind and without being tired, I could easily beat him. Its just a matter of getting the timing, and climate right.

Man up and pedal faster

 

[Matthew_T]

Man up and pedal faster

I am going out this afternoon before the club ride to have another go. Hopefully with a bit of lunch inside me I will be able to do better.

 

[musa]

Got my KOM.....finally
http://app.strava.com/activities/61051568#1144913745

 

[musa]

its my first, ive been trying for agess but my ride home was very fast 10miles -31mins avg spd 19.2/3 (ma)

 

[Frood42]

No KOM's, but then I don't have much of a chance on a hybrid, but I am in the other challenges:

fi'zi:k Tour Tune-Up
21:38:13 (got the 20hr badge, on target for the 30hrs)

The Junedoggle
846 km (got the 750km badge, on target for the 1000km easily)

 

[benb]

So annoyed. One segment this morning I absolutely busted a gut, felt like I was going to die, and didn't even get a PR!!

 

[musa]

i tell a lie its my second hehe

 

[lejogger]

A clubmate (who isn't just a racer, but also 10 years younger) has long had a vendetta to remove all of my KOMs from me.

To be frank I think it's bullying, plain and simple, and he removed a further two from my old commuting route on Monday.

Despite having tired legs from doing a little too much on the bike and on the footy pitch this week, I decided to take the old route this morning, and literally give both segments everything I've got (had left).

Obviously I won't find out until I upload the data tonight but I'm confident that I gave them a good go, and I should be there or thereabouts.

I'm grateful for any positive thoughts or energy you may wish to send my way during this horrible time of limbo, or alternatively you can just tell me to MTFU

 

[HLaB]

Rode the Audax National 400km on Saturday / Sunday.
Tiverton - Chepstow - Tiverton in a roundabout way !

http://app.strava.com/activities/60641152

Lots & lots of segments but not unsurprisingly any top 10's

But I bet the overall ride was good, nice one

 

[Kiwiavenger]

got held up by a damned moped this morning kept having to ease off and hit the brakes twice!! - broke the top ten on the segment though http://app.strava.com/segments/4167533 and then went on to PB the following segment after the ped turned off http://app.strava.com/segments/1806756

 

[Spartak]

But I bet the overall ride was good, nice one

Yeah, great ride although the night section was tough !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Rode the Audax National 400km on Saturday / Sunday.
Tiverton - Chepstow - Tiverton in a roundabout way !

http://app.strava.com/activities/60641152

Lots & lots of segments but not unsurprisingly any top 10's

Much Kudos to you

 

[TheJDog]

What's the best Garmin for playing with Strava? Or is there a better GPS.

I have a target set for a particular segment, and I would really like to meet it. It's short enough that I will pobably be doing it many tens of times, and I want to download a target segment plot from Strava, race against that until I beat it, then get the leaderboard plot 5 seconds faster than that, repeat until I can go no faster.

The 510, 810 (and 800) all have this feature, but it seems like a bit of a faff, downloading from Strava via another program, converting the file, uploading - and just for one segment!

Ideally, I would be able to highlight a list of segments and target times, and when I ride around I can race against the guy on the leaderboard with that segment time. Pie in the sky right now, but there must be somebody trying to implement this (official or unofficial)..

Anyone got any suggestions?