Silly STRAVA Racing

[SoloCyclist]

I placed 33/38 on a segment today. I got stopped at THREE sets of traffic lights on the 1.3 mile stretch. I'm not going to flag it I'll just not bother with it. I can't remember ever getting three green lights when I used to use that road regular.

Obviously talking nonsense. Took this KOM today. There's a short sprint someone has created at the start of the segment. I thought I'd give it a go then all the lights turned to green as I approached each one so I kept the effort up. Ended up taking both KOMs although the short sprint was a tie.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Knocked into the top tens on three segments on my single speed, can't wait to try them again once I have gears

 

[HLaB]

Got the 'your KOM has been beaten notification by 1min and 52 secs' today, usually that much means a motorbike/car/van but not this bloke his times were great averaging 22mph and only maxing at 38mph

 

[4F]

Knocked into the top tens on three segments on my single speed, can't wait to try them again once I have gears

Nice one, that was a good ride out today. Shame there was not a segment as we were drafting the tractor.

 

[Hacienda71]

Got the 'your KOM has been beaten notification by 1min and 52 secs' today, usually that much means a motorbike/car/van but not this bloke his times were great averaging 22mph and only maxing at 38mph

I had one of those today. Bloke had uploaded all the rides of his Garmin dating back a couple of years. He did get one off me that was right as he was running a HRM and power meter. The other was a definite car jobby where he had taken about 12 koms in one ride and averaged well over 30 with a 50 mph top speed. Looking at a couple of his other rides I think a few of his KOMs will be flagged.

 

[HLaB]

I had one of those today. Bloke had uploaded all the rides of his Garmin dating back a couple of years. He did get one off me that was right as he was running a HRM and power meter. The other was a definite car jobby where he had taken about 12 koms in one ride and averaged well over 30 with a 50 mph top speed. Looking at a couple of his other rides I think a few of his KOMs will be flagged.

Yeah, I get one like that often on a KOM I've got near a MTB centre, the average 40mph up the 7% hill and a max in the region of 70-80mph. I think folk have a good ride in the mtb centre and forget to switch their GPS off.

 

[400bhp]

Yeah, I get one like that often on a KOM I've got near a MTB centre, the average 40mph up the 7% hill and a max in the region of 70-80mph. I think folk have a good ride in the mtb centre and forget to switch their GPS off.

Yes, but...If you are running strava you are clearly interested in this nonesense, so there is no excuse for leaving on a dodgy ride. Feckin annoys me.

 

[gb155]

Just noted there is a segment on the 8 kicks of the canal at Marple, I'm busy for a few weeks but when I get a chance, it'll be full on assault time on that kom

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Word of warning, myself 4f and mattobrien pushed hard through a three mile segment yesterday but made the classic mistake of stopping for a slash and a breather about to metres before the end of the segment

 

[BSRU]

Took 4 seconds off my PB on a KOM I am making some effort on, now only 17 seconds behind the KOM, a decent local club rider who was racing two of his club mates.
Raceshape shows I am going into the segment too slow and loosing 15 seconds straight away, loosing a few more seconds taking a rest after the first drag then loosing 8 more seconds more on the main drag but gaining 6 seconds on the final drag.

 

[4F]

Word of warning, myself 4f and mattobrien pushed hard through a three mile segment yesterday but made the classic mistake of stopping for a slash and a breather about to metres before the end of the segment

LOL I am 24th out of 24 and you are 23rd on that section

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Rematch needed!

 

[willhub]

Someone tried to take my segment I created into my village. That's MY segment

http://app.strava.com/rides/18931205#342162464

I'll have to try a different cog at the back next time, I was only in the 5th, I'm sure if I get a run up to it at 30mph I'll be spinning fast enough in the 6th cog to get the power out and propel oneself to 40mph.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I nipped out for a lunchtime quicky and was really disappointed that my crappy phone didn't get the GPS close enough to even register any segments, so I uploaded the GPX from my Holux and got a surprise KOM! http://app.strava.com/rides/19134916#345821105

 

[Andrew_Culture]

My apologies if this has been posted before, but someone uses Strava to create 'art' http://blog.strava.com/stravart-5068/