Silly STRAVA Racing

[ohnovino]

I'm still new to all this: is there an easy way to view all segments that pass through a particular area? The explore function seems to be very picky about how/where it's zoomed in, and it's a bit random about which segments it shows and which it ignores.

 

[lejogger]

I'm still new to all this: is there an easy way to view all segments that pass through a particular area? The explore function seems to be very picky about how/where it's zoomed in, and it's a bit random about which segments it shows and which it ignores.

It is very much dependant on the zoom area you select. Sometimes you don't realise one is there until you register a time on it when passing through.

 

[BSRU]

Why would it not include that? Segments through lights involve a bit of luck but if it didn't count time stopped, what's to stop someone sprinting in stop/starts through a segment, recovering in between efforts.

Compare it to a TT, if you get a bit of bad luck at a roundabout with traffic, you don't take any time off for it.

It is worse than that the current KOM did not even cycle whole course, they took a slightly different route which means they cycled 6.5km and not 7km. Seems Strava cannot recognise if someone is actually following the whole segment.

 

[BSRU]

The pitch where I play football is midway through a segment. I ride up there, stop the timer, play for 90 minutes and then set the timer again and complete the segment... my average speed through it last night was 0.4mph

It would be silly if the time recorded was just my cycling time and not the real time elapsed.

I realise it is done for a good reason but it does not make it any less annoying.

 

[lejogger]

It is worse than that the current KOM did not even cycle whole course, they took a slightly different route which means they cycled 6.5km and not 7km. Seems Strava cannot recognise if someone is actually following the whole segment.

I'd flag the ride in that case - if it's not true to the segment. Or alternatively go out and post a fast time on the shorter route!

 

[smokeysmoo]

Got my first 3 achievements on Sunday. 3 top 10's, chuffed to bits with that


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[smutchin]

what's to stop someone sprinting in stop/starts through a segment, recovering in between efforts.

Compare it to a TT, if you get a bit of bad luck at a roundabout with traffic, you don't take any time off for it.

Nor in a TT would you try that stop-start strategy - it just wouldn't work, you'd lose too much time stopping and starting. It wouldn't work on a Strava segment either for the same reason.

d.

 

[Edwards80]

Nor in a TT would you try that stop-start strategy - it just wouldn't work, you'd lose too much time stopping and starting. It wouldn't work on a Strava segment either for the same reason.

d.

Obviously it wouldn't work in a TT - I was thinking more along the lines of climbing half way up a hill, stopping for a rest/having some cake/a nap/1000 caffeine tablets - then carrying on. As long as you stop suddenly and get back up to speed quickly (we're assuming it doesn't count time stopped), you could get an advantage depending on the segment.

Of course, its all academic - it doesn't allow it nor would anyone be sad enough to try if it was allowed

 

[smutchin]

As long as you stop suddenly and get back up to speed quickly (we're assuming it doesn't count time stopped), you could get an advantage depending on the segment.

I think you're underestimating the effect stopping and starting has on your time (I say this from the point of view of a London commuter).

Of course, its all academic - it doesn't allow it nor would anyone be sad enough to try if it was allowed

Not allowed in a TT, obviously, but it would be an interesting experiment to try it on Strava - I'm fairly confident you'd find there's no advantage to it...

d.

 

[Edwards80]

Not allowed in a TT, obviously, but it would be an interesting experiment to try it on Strava - I'm fairly confident you'd find there's no advantage to it...

d.

You can't just drop that statement and leave it there. I'll end up doing something daft like trying it

If you see someone commuting through Manchester tonight accelerating like a man possessed then pitching himself over the bars, you'll know who it is.

 

[MichaelO]

I got my first ever top 10 - 5th/127 Just 9 seconds to find to get my first ever KOM!

 

[gaz]

Some pretty bad wind in London tonight, ended up towing a guy for two miles into a head wind, not once did he let me shelter or say thanks for the tow :/ Got a PR on that segment as well!

 

[thefollen]

First Strava ride (others on my account are exported Endomondos)!

http://www.strava.com/runs/2-aug-20...T1yaWRlX3NoYXJlOzI9ZmFjZWJvb2s7ND04NzUyNDE%3D

This could become addictive. Cog-blocked by a bus for the big Embankment flier unfortunately, but there's always tomorrow! Appreciate also the importance of safe cycling, my sense had to override instincts on a couple of occasions

 

[Col5632]

I've signed up for it and i can see me getting addicted to trying to beat mine and others times

 

[mattobrien]

I thought that I had clocked a good time on a segment today, only to find that some git had flagged it as hazardous and that Strava doesn't show leader boards for hazardous segments