Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

daxplusplus

Lost a KOM the other day to someone on a ride in 2011! It wasn't there before I got the KOM and appeared maybe 2 weeks after I claimed it?!

What's that all about then?

UndercoverElephant

DaxPlusPlus wrote:

Lost a KOM the other day to someone on a ride in 2011! It wasn't there before I got the KOM and appeared maybe 2 weeks after I claimed it?!

What's that all about then?

Someone just joined Strava and uploaded a considerable back-catalogue from their Garmin?

daxplusplus

I guess. Maybe that's happening more often and I only noticed this time because I lost my KOM?

goonz

iPete wrote:

Box Hill x10, ironically it was the wind that killed me coming home.
http://app.strava.com/activities/139190693

Awesome, did you complete the challenge I thought it was over 7kft of climbing?

Might have to try that before the time is up.

iPete

goonz wrote:

iPete wrote:

Box Hill x10, ironically it was the wind that killed me coming home.
http://app.strava.com/activities/139190693

Awesome, did you complete the challenge I thought it was over 7kft of climbing?

Might have to try that before the time is up.

Yup, put in 500m in the first two days around Richmond Park, thank f**k!. Doing that with a cold was a bad idea, destroyed now but too stubborn to avoid a challenge :twisted:

talius

The Vos ride is a rather impressive Strava activity

http://www.strava.com/activities/139163862

redvee

Talius wrote:

The Vos ride is a rather impressive Strava activity

http://www.strava.com/activities/139163862

Bit of an ego killer when some of the girls are faster than the men on a segment.

willy b

redvee wrote:

Talius wrote:

The Vos ride is a rather impressive Strava activity

http://www.strava.com/activities/139163862

Bit of an ego killer when some of the girls are faster than the men on a segment.

Not really. They're Pro athletes after all.

rower63

Just signed up with Strava, using an iPhone 5s for first few rides, but also got a Garmin 800 off eBay. I have a few questions:
Any special tips for setting up a Garmin Edge 800 for first time, or for using it day to day?
For my second ride, the iPhone App seemed to show one other rider in my vicinity, whom I know from SCR, but the website didn’t show that?
And which riders does it “show me”? Is it riders in the same “Strava Club” (e.g. SCR which I joined)? I’m around an awful lot of cyclists on my commute, and I think more than one of them must be on Strava.
Is it worth paying up for “premium”? Any of you do it?

talius

rower63 wrote:

Just signed up with Strava, using an iPhone 5s for first few rides, but also got a Garmin 800 off eBay. I have a few questions:
Any special tips for setting up a Garmin Edge 800 for first time, or for using it day to day?
For my second ride, the iPhone App seemed to show one other rider in my vicinity, whom I know from SCR, but the website didn’t show that?
And which riders does it “show me”? Is it riders in the same “Strava Club” (e.g. SCR which I joined)? I’m around an awful lot of cyclists on my commute, and I think more than one of them must be on Strava.
Is it worth paying up for “premium”? Any of you do it?

I pay for Premium, though I've forgotten what it gives me, but at the time I started paying (after using it for about 6 months) I remember it definitely felt worth it.

I think it just gives you the details of anyone in the same clubs who rides a certain percentage of the same ride as you. It might be wider than the same clubs but I don't think so as it hardly ever shows anyone on mine, and clearly I ride with so many people on the commute everyday, you'd think quite a few would show up. But I could be wrong.

Check out Velo viewer as well, it's a great way to view your strava stats:

http://veloviewer.com/

porlyworly

Picked up a monumental KoM at the weekend, made all the sweeter by the fact 2 of my clubmates had KoM'd it earlier.

Being a gracious winner I "IN YOUR FACE!"'d them both on our club facebook page. One of them took offence and tried again the following morning and tied my first place but I claimed the moral victory due to being a decade older and considerably heavier ¬_¬

http://www.strava.com/activities/139547328

elbowloh

I've just joined the Strava SCR club.

Eric Loh is the name.

Sharkyssurfers

someone is getting a oh oh message this morning ;o)

rower63

cjcp - you kudos-ed me for my strava effort this morning, thanks. What was it for in particular? It didn't seem like a particularly amazing ride for me, too much traffic and inconvenient reds.

You, however, seem to have ripped it up Roehampton to Putney Bridge, though, that was a good effort.

Also strava tells me my ride home last night was in company of one Simon L a member of SCR.

cjcp

Twas a good effort along from Hampton.

asprilla

Strava users with a power meter, how does your power curve look?

I've been riding now for a few weeks with a powertap and on occasion, giving it beans.

Strava reports my estimated FTP as 357w. Part of me says 'Woot!' but a bigger part of me says 'Bollocks!' So, what say the hive mind?

For a start the estimated FTP line on the power curve intersects at about 12mins30s, where as at 20 minutes it reads 335w, which I would make 93% of that as 311.55w for an hour.

So, is Strava full of shoot, have I found my inner Awesome or does my power meter need recalibrating?

asprilla

Asprilla wrote:

Strava users with a power meter, how does your power curve look?

I've been riding now for a few weeks with a powertap and on occasion, giving it beans.

Strava reports my estimated FTP as 357w. Part of me says 'Woot!' but a bigger part of me says '****!' So, what say the hive mind?

For a start the estimated FTP line on the power curve intersects at about 12mins30s, where as at 20 minutes it reads 335w, which I would make 93% of that as 311.55w for an hour.

So, is Strava full of shoot, have I found my inner Awesome or does my power meter need recalibrating?

Power meter needed calibrating. Numbers looked much more realistic this morning.

okgo

Calibrate it before every ride mate. And if its anything like the crank based system it takes a bit of time to get a feel for the temp outside vs inside, so I normally give it a few mins then do it again.

bigmat

Why is the "standard" FTP test based on a 20 minute effort? Its not that hard to do an hour long effort (indoors anyway) which would surely be a lot more accurate? Anyway, I digress... KoM up Farnborough hill last week, seemed like first for a long time.

okgo

It is very hard to do a one hour effort outside of a race, which is why almost nobody tests like that. Even harder indoors mentally. I did 30 mins hard the other day and it was mentally VERY difficult.

Anyway, accuracy isn't a massive problem, zone ranges are broad enough to mean being a few watts out on FTP isn't life or death.

rower63

BigMat wrote:

Why is the "standard" FTP test based on a 20 minute effort? Its not that hard to do an hour long effort (indoors anyway) which would surely be a lot more accurate? Anyway, I digress... KoM up Farnborough hill last week, seemed like first for a long time.

The relationship between maximal effort and time for a given individual is quite well known - if you plot maximal effort against duration-of-effort for many different individuals on the same chart you'll see contours, and very little crossing-over of different peoples' curves, meaning peoples' fade-rates are similar regardless of talent.
Given what okgo said, that a true maximal 1-hour effort is extremely difficult and after one you'll fear to do another, it's quite easy and realistic to extrapolate the up-to-20-minute curves (i.e. 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, 20m say) out to 60 minutes.
If you've amassed a lot of hard rides and associated "peak-power" numbers over various timescales (e.g. 5-minute peak power = maximum 5 minutes average continuous power in a given ride - Golden Cheetah does a good job of this), your set of maximum peak-powers up to ~20 minutes will be close to your maximal effort-vs-time curve described above. Simply extrapolation out to 60 minutes.

rower63

BigMat wrote:

Why is the "standard" FTP test based on a 20 minute effort? Its not that hard to do an hour long effort (indoors anyway) which would surely be a lot more accurate? Anyway, I digress... KoM up Farnborough hill last week, seemed like first for a long time.

The relationship between maximal effort and time for a given individual is quite well known - if you plot maximal effort against duration-of-effort for many different individuals on the same chart you'll see contours, and very little crossing-over of different peoples' curves, meaning peoples' fade-rates are similar regardless of talent.
Given what okgo said, that a true maximal 1-hour effort is extremely difficult and after one you'll fear to do another, it's quite easy and realistic to extrapolate the up-to-20-minute curves (i.e. 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, 20m say) out to 60 minutes.
If you've amassed a lot of hard rides and associated "peak-power" numbers over various timescales (e.g. 5-minute peak power = maximum 5 minutes average continuous power in a given ride - Golden Cheetah does a good job of this), your set of maximum peak-powers up to ~20 minutes will be close to your maximal effort-vs-time curve described above. Simply extrapolation out to 60 minutes.

goonz

2 KOM and a 2nd place, ta very much.

itboffin

Smashed the ar$e out of the climb to the local windmill and gained a KOM in the process 8)
also picked up a 5th overall on a very nasty 13% short climb

thank you, thank you very much!

itboffin

I've often wondered why there aren't more segments created around here, then today I had a look at one near match, seems the fool that created it either used a duff GPS on their ride or really zig zags wildly from side to side veering off road in the process :roll:

set GPS device to follow roads, duh!

iPete

Sub 6 up Box Hill (on one of the proper segments, none of these short ones), one of my new years goals out of the way.

Initialised

22 miles is kind of long for a segment don't you think?

http://www.strava.com/segments/6098073

roger_merriman

Apparently my folks dog feels that 28mph down a steep narrow lumpy unpaved road/track is not good enough last few times has been barking to get me to speed up.....I may have to limit the supply of markies, I think!

goonz

iPete wrote:

Sub 6 up Box Hill (on one of the proper segments, none of these short ones), one of my new years goals out of the way.

What's the full segment? From the start of the road right to the cafe?

okgo

goonz wrote:

iPete wrote:

Sub 6 up Box Hill (on one of the proper segments, none of these short ones), one of my new years goals out of the way.

What's the full segment? From the start of the road right to the cafe?

This is the one most people measure from

http://www.strava.com/segments/627910