Silly STRAVA Racing

[gaz]

http://stravaviewer.com is pretty cool. It lets you look at all your number 2's,3's, 4's etc...

I'm in the top 50 for 219 segments. top 25 for 81 segments and top 10 for 48 segments.
Top 50 for some of the less traveled segments is obviously not an achievement. But for those which have been traveled by over 1000 people.. not bad at all!

 

[HLaB]

I had huge tailwinds and thrashed myself silly on one segment this morning only for Strava not to aknowledge I was there, even although the map of the ride shows that I was

I went out for a ride tonight and I'm pretty sure I got a KOM but the same, no mention in a ride that goes down the same road.

 

[2PedalsTez]

Please excuse my ignorance on this (not having used this yet), but if I do one of my usual routes that encompasses a segment, does Strava automatically pick out the details? Can you create your own segments or does it generate them for you?

I have to say that once my collar bone is repaired, I can see this becoming an unhealthy (well, healthy) obsession!

 

[Edwards80]

It will automatically recognise when you have completed a segment. You can add your own segments if you like and if it logs a steep climb on your route it will automatically create one for you

 

[2PedalsTez]

Fantastic. Thanks for that

 

[Andrew_P]

KOM on this looks a bit dodgy, if its notit is bloody impressive! http://app.strava.com/segments/1369696

 

[Andrew_P]

LOL gone already the Ride went about 25+ Segements 48 miles taking some cracking KOM's he must have been over run with emails or comments from the previous KOM's hehehe

 

[400bhp]

http://stravaviewer.com is pretty cool. It lets you look at all your number 2's,3's, 4's etc...

I'm in the top 50 for 219 segments. top 25 for 81 segments and top 10 for 48 segments.
Top 50 for some of the less traveled segments is obviously not an achievement. But for those which have been traveled by over 1000 people.. not bad at all!

He only gets data for the 1st 50 places-so if you were 10000th of 10000 people you would be down as 50.

 

[400bhp]

BTW I've asked the developer [of stravaviewer.com] if he can do some king of percentiles - he said he would look into it.

 

[gb155]

I understand you can get custom satellite maps on your garmin 800

Anyone know how ?

Would be great for adding strava segments onto

 

[gaz]

He only gets data for the 1st 50 places-so if you were 10000th of 10000 people you would be down as 50.

Not sure that is the case for the table 'Total segment count and current counts of top 50 placings.'
I only have 2 in 50th place, where as I am position >50th in much more than 2 segments.

 

[400bhp]

Yeah, sorry meant 50+

Here's what the developer said:

I don't actually get a count for the total number of riders for each segment as I only get the top 50. Some segments (in the states) have thousands of riders which slowed it all right down! For the same reason i can't work out placings above 50th. All of which will make percentiles tricky to calc and impossible if placing greater than 50th. I'll have a go though.

 

[Herzog]

I just lost three KOMs on my commute to the pros during the Tour de Suisse. I'll never get those back

 

[Dan B]

I've started the laborious process of downloading my historical rides from garmin connect - sent them to strava in a zip file but get an email back sating strava can't find any attachments. Anyone else tried this?

I wrote a small program to send all my TCX files to strava using their web api, but unless you have a Linux[*] machine with Ruby installed it probably isn't much use to you

[*] A mac would be just as good, I am assured, but I don't know a lot about macs

 

[Andrew_P]

This could be down to my Garmin, but I sorted by this month + my results and out 12 passes it only caught 4 and a measly 145 in all time. Which is not that impressive.