Silly STRAVA Racing

[redcard]

I lost a KOM I didn't even know I had. I'm pretty sure I'd never had a notification of it, and I'd never seen it on my profile page or owt.

Got a notification saying I'd lost it by 3 seconds, so should be easy enough to reclaim, particularly as I don't ride the whole segment regularly. The route is basically half a dozen short sprints between city-centre traffic lights. Hardly the best segment, and it's only been ridden 9 times.

http://app.strava.com/segments/1546433

 

[400bhp]

I lost a KOM I didn't even know I had. I'm pretty sure I'd never had a notification of it, and I'd never seen it on my profile page or owt.

Got a notification saying I'd lost it by 3 seconds, so should be easy enough to reclaim, particularly as I don't ride the whole segment regularly. The route is basically half a dozen short sprints between city-centre traffic lights. Hardly the best segment, and it's only been ridden 9 times.

http://app.strava.com/segments/1546433

If someone sets up a segment that you have ridden in the past and set the fastest time, you won't get a notification of a KoM.

 

[Andrew_P]

Gaz, this was downhill? although named as "sundown climb"?

http://app.strava.com/segments/801694
I have seen a few like this one, and assumed that the times are for downhill? Cannot imagine the speeds are uphill lol

 

[gaz]

Gaz, this was downhill? although named as "sundown climb"?

http://app.strava.com/segments/801694
I have seen a few like this one, and assumed that the times are for downhill? Cannot imagine the speeds are uphill lol

No, that was uphill. On looking at the data in garmin connect. The time I did it in is about right. But the average speed should not be that high. More around the 15mph mark would make sense.

Edit:
Looks like the distance on the segment is incorrect, it should be around 0.5miles long.

Created a new segment for it... http://app.strava.com/segments/1665152

 

[gaz]

Do you guys mainly use Strava for the uphill segments? Since im heavy and on a hybrid, ive been chasing a few relatively flat segments with a tailwind recently just for a bit of fun

I found a segment going down this hill http://goo.gl/maps/PzYc where the top guys on the leaderboard are bombing down there at over 40mph. Dont think ill be trying to beat them at that!

I'll use it for flats. being in london, most of it in the centre is relatively flat.

 

[redcard]

Is it possible to see all my achievements on 1 page?

Would be good to see everything together so you could work out easier what segments to work on.

 

[gaz]

Is it possible to see all my achievements on 1 page?

Would be good to see everything together so you could work out easier what segments to work on.

Only way to do it so far is to use a third party tool. http://stravaviewer.com/ a few of us here use it. very handy to get the e-mail notifications, as it will highlight news sections created as well as any ups and downs you have.

 

[400bhp]

Is it possible to see all my achievements on 1 page?

Would be good to see everything together so you could work out easier what segments to work on.

Repeated several times in this thread:

http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/segmentDetails.php

http://www.stravaviewer.com/

 

[gaz]

does anyone know why this segment wouldn't show up in KOM/CR? I have the joint best time.
I look into the details, this year i've ridden it 60 more times than the other guy, in total I have ridden it 330 times more than him.

 

[Nebulous]

If you have the same recorded time it has some other means of ranking you - somehow or other it gives him first place over you.I think it might be making a judgement on smaller time increments, without displaying them.

I have a fairly short segment, 0.3 of a kilometre and it only records in 2 second increments! At that short a section I think it would need 10ths.

 

[smutchin]

Failed to get one over my local rival by one poxy second this morning thanks to my sodding chain slipping. So annoying - I really need to replace the chain and cassette, it's killing my chances.

Of course, I wouldn't have got the KOM anyway because it turns out that some segment-bagging swine* has come along and posted a ridiculously fast time. I think that one is lost to me forever now.

d.

*you can tell by his route

 

[HLaB]

does anyone know why this segment wouldn't show up in KOM/CR? I have the joint best time.
I look into the details, this year i've ridden it 60 more times than the other guy, in total I have ridden it 330 times more than him.

It was probably created after you done your best time which was 2010 and his is more recent.

 

[HLaB]

Strava is randomly creating segments I cant believe I'm the only rider on this. I doubt the KOM will last long anyway as it was on the heavy SS, I was picking myself of the deck at the start and at the right turn and roundabouts I was giving way to cars. I've certainly done the route before with mates that are on Strava

 

[Chrisc]

When this thread is a bit longer it needs sifting and turning into the "Cat 6 Racers Bumper Book of Excuses"
:-)

 

[BSRU]

I went "up" a Strava segment this morning which it classes as a cat 4 climb. I normally go the other way, I always wondered why my normal direction seemed to be a long uphill drag and not the downhill Strava thinks it should be.
Well, the Strava cat 4 climb is downhill virtually all of the segment, the small "uphill" parts do not require a gear change.
There is another cat 4 just a km away which is a good climb and what I would expect.