Veloviewer geek thread

[Andrew_Culture]

http://veloviewer.com is a new service for getting really in depth with your Strava data. I know there's already a Strava thread but I can see the discussion on this amazing new site getting quite detailed so wondered if it might be worth a dedicated thread?

If you haven't used Veloviewer yet it's really very easy:

1. Visit http://veloviewer.com
2. Tap in your Strava ID (the string of numbers you see after the last slash when viewing your dashboard)
3. Hit the 'get new rides' button until your rides have all been imported
4. Go googly-eyed at the amazing amount of ultra-geek data
5. Post your revelations in this thread

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I'm not bragging here, because I really am surprised, but my god I have a lot of top-ten rankings I had no idea I hold!

New Segments

• 1 of 26 - Paper Mill Lane towards Claydon
• 1 of 22 - Burstall Lane Climb
• 1 of 9 - Willoughby wobble
• 1 of 9 - Escape from Chantry
• 1 of 8 - Industrial injury
• 1 of 3 - Pointless pithy push
• 1 of 2 - Short blast
• 1 of 2 - Back from work
• 2 of 49 - Bramford Hill Climb
• 2 of 22 - Milestone Dash
• 2 of 21 - PoundLane
• 2 of 21 - quick blast
• 2 of 15 - Gippeswyk/Birkfield
• 2 of 14 - The Tractor Draft
• 2 of 8 - station
• 2 of 7 - Hurdle Makers Hill
• 3 of 51 - Ipswich 3 island sprint
• 3 of 20 - Tractor dash
• 3 of 18 - Tractor dash
• 3 of 14 - Boxford hill
• 4 of 56 - America Hill
• 4 of 45 - Sproughton Brisk ( Reverse )
• 4 of 30 - Paper Mill Lane towards Bramford
• 4 of 19 - Berners St Burn
• 4 of 14 - Tractor Draft
• 5 of 98 - Tide Mill Way Climb
• 5 of 52 - B1113 Beagle Climb
• 5 of 31 - Woodbridge Road climb
• 6 of 92 - Whersted Road Sprint
• 6 of 45 - Derby to Cobham Dash
• 6 of 38 - Ransomes way rise
• 6 of 37 - Golf Rush!!!
• 6 of 31 - Village Climb
• 6 of 20 - alton water
• 7 of 57 - Spring Road DH Dash
• 7 of 57 - Spring Road DH Dash
• 7 of 46 - Give a pound to Loraine
• 7 of 45 - Derby road drag strip (1/4 mile sprint)
• 7 of 44 - Hintlesham cool climb
• 7 of 31 - Ipwich - Norwich Road Drag
• 7 of 30 - Princess St Lights sprint
• 7 of 29 - Bucks Fizzing Dash
• 7 of 17 - Hel-Bocking Roller
• 7 of 16 - Airfield to train rush
• 8 of 56 - Ashbocking 2 witnesham
• 8 of 40 - Alton back section
• 8 of 39 - Roundabout 2 Bridge Dash
• 8 of 28 - Barham church lane
• 8 of 27 - Alton Water Sprint (South)
• 8 of 10 - Ipswich School Climb

 

[gaz]

I have over 160 top 10 placings.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I have over 160 top 10 placings.

Blimey! I'm guessing most of them are in a city? It would appear that Strava has only just starting taking off around these parts so there aren't as many segments.

 

[gaz]

Blimey! I'm guessing most of them are in a city? It would appear that Strava has only just starting taking off around these parts so there aren't as many segments.

Yes, in London. But with a city comes a lot more challengers. With a lot of segments having several hundred competitors.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Yes, in London. But with a city comes a lot more challengers. With a lot of segments having several hundred competitors.

That does sound like a lot more fun!

 

[Asa Post]

http://veloviewer.com is a new service for getting really in depth with your Strava data

oooh! Much fun

I'm not bragging here, because I really am surprised, but my god I have a lot of top-ten rankings I had no idea I hold!

Sorry to prick your balloon, but have you seen the known issues page?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Sorry to prick your balloon, but have you seen the known issues page?

Ha ha! Doh! It's good enough encouragement for me though

 

[Ben Lowe]

Hi, cheers for the thread. Glad you're liking the site. Worth just getting your head around the known issue (http://veloviewer.com/KnownIssues.php) regarding slightly optimistic placings that currently can happen due to a bug at the Strava end of things (which hopefully they will fix at some point). When there are tied placings higher up the leaderboard than yourself then you will get a slightly optimistic placing as Strava aren't counting the extra tied people in working out your placing. e.g. on a segment that has 3 people tied in 1st place on 50 seconds and you are in 4th place at 51 seconds, VeloViewer will show you are in 2nd place as that is what Strava's api tells me but when you look at the leaderboard in Strava it'll show 4th. When Strava fix their API then you'll notice your placings on these (often short) segments falling all of a sudden but it might not be for a while.
Obviously that doesn't affect your KOMs, those are all accurate!
Bear that in mind and enjoy the stats!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Ben, if this forum had a karma / kudos function I'd click you a million times

 

[DCLane]

Wouldn't work with IE, but fine on Firefox.

Mine from 5 'practice' rides with rucksack on plus the Manc 100:

• 4 of 429 - Over Road descent
• 4 of 23 - A653 under bridge
• 6 of 28 - Speed Camera Alley
• 6 of 26 - Royd Ln Climb
• 7 of 554 - Ashley Road Tatton Straight
• 7 of 402 - Burrows Hill - Up
• 9 of 581 - Tabley Road
• 9 of 550 - Park Road Downhill Dash
• 9 of 97 - Woodkirk burst
• 9 of 16 - Old Bank Road climb
• 10 of 100 - the three acres
• 10 of 95 - shaw cross to the Babes
• 10 of 48 - Cross Flatts to Tommy Wass
• 10 of 41 - UP TO TINGLEY ROUNDABOUT

I'll get better - and update it!

 

[tadpole]

I just wish I could update.

 

[Ben Lowe]

Update not working for you? What's your strava id?

... update, hang on... "Tadpole" that rings a bell. going through emails...

 

[tadpole]

Update not working for you? What's your strava id?

... update, hang on... "Tadpole" that rings a bell. going through emails...

Yes that is me 212031 still will not update even after you put on the first 25

 

[mattobrien]

The only stats I am interested in seeing are the segments where I feature above Andrew on