Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

itboffin

JamesFree wrote:

itboffin wrote:

JamesFree wrote:

Commuting to the city at the weekend is sooo much easier had a nice clear run and even though I was hungover as hell I managed a 20mph average and also set a good time on waterloo bridge southbound (only discovered it was a segment when uploaded) Had a cheeky tow from a car until he dropped me as I spun out!

There's your problem ^

And have to do it all again tomorrow a nice 8am start too!

willy b

Rode Millbank South twice on the way home, and Millbank North once. Hit it really hard so I could move up!

Only to get back home to find Strava had though I travelled as the crow flies again :x

jzed

No chance of any decent segments over the weekend - the world and his dog get into their cars and descend onto the racetrack.

Windy ride in but managed to get 3rd overall on CB to VB, relegating a certain JG from the podium.

Ron's reporting of the Wheeler has meant top spot for Millbank North is only 1 second away.

Pufftmw

KOM'd the Brookmill Sprint this morning first time run - 'nuff said

Wrath Rob

JZed wrote:

Ron's reporting of the Wheeler has meant top spot for Millbank North is only 1 second away.

Target aquired. Just need the legs to recover and give that a go. Maybe by Thursday then...

jzed

Wrath Rob wrote:

JZed wrote:

Ron's reporting of the Wheeler has meant top spot for Millbank North is only 1 second away.

Target aquired. Just need the legs to recover and give that a go. Maybe by Thursday then...

Did think about it his morning but the wind wasn't favourable so eased off completely to save the legs for another day/segment.

Noticed same Wheeler has Col Du Chutney with an average speed of 42mph whereas top speed of 25mph. Fancy reporting that one and installing me as the KOM?

Wrath Rob

Col du Chutney is the most pony segment, IMO.

You should have sacked off work and come out on Sunday. They ride to Windsor was fantastic, only a few little hills and the rest was flat. Great pace and we had a great sprint through Sunbury too. Picked up a KOM and a few other placings

Bassjunkieuk

Decentish ride in this morning for my early start, either equalled or set new PR's on each segment :-) Gutted I missed going under the minute for Millbank sprint towards LBR

dhope

Nice, picked up a KOM from Clapham North to Oval this morning. Didn't expect that.
Nothing else worth mentioning

mtb-idle

dhope wrote:

Nice, picked up a KOM from Clapham North to Oval this morning. Didn't expect that.
Nothing else worth mentioning

isn't that downhill all the way??

dhope

MTB-Idle wrote:

dhope wrote:

Nice, picked up a KOM from Clapham North to Oval this morning. Didn't expect that.
Nothing else worth mentioning

isn't that downhill all the way??

I scale Col du Balham at the beginning of my commute so everything for 100 miles is downhill from there.

(But yeah, Clapham to City feels like it's a very slight decline the whole way, nice and easy to coast along)

jzed

Mmmmm - JensGinge has leaped above me on some of the segments and has at least one of my KOM's - time to try harder - could be a long old winter......

jonginge

JZed wrote:

Mmmmm - JensGinge has leaped above me on some of the segments and has at least one of my KOM's - time to try harder - could be a long old winter......

Really? That manual uploading of old data did the trick then

If only I hadn't lost several months of data over the summer. CJ and I did some blistering commutes when we were training for the marmotte. 705 only recorded summary data

Sheikhus

Okay, downloaded the app yesterday and am ready to join in. The only problem is that no one else seems to go from harrow to archway. I can sense some pretty long detours coming up...

So far am finding that the gps is much less accurate in the iPhone than it is when using endomondo. Anyone else get this? Also I seem to have done a fair bit of climbing in comparison to some of you lot this morning. Can that be right?

okgo

When using this with a garmin, how do you do it?

I usually leave my computer to track a weeks worth of miles then reset it on a monday, if I did this with a garmin and uploaded a weeks worth of miles it wouldn't know that it wasn't all in one ride would it?

How does it work? As I plan to buy a garmin of sorts soon.

Wrath Rob

Its magic!

Actually, its alot less exciting than that. With the Garmins, after each ride you "reset" the computer which the logs the ride details and stores the file, then resets itself ready for the next ride. When you conect the Garmin to the computer and go to the website, it searches through the Garmin's history, identifies new files and uploads them. I do mine daily, some do theirs twice daily, some weekly etc. The websites track your weekly/monthy/yearly totals rather than leaving them on the computer to be forgotten.

suzyb

Do you have to define segments yourself. Or can you search for segments others have entered that are part of the routes you've taken.

Pufftmw

If a segment is unhidden that is already created along a route you take, it will identify and add you to it automatically. You can also create your own segments and it will populate with others that have taken that route as well.

suzyb

So no segments showing means no one has created any. Wondered if that was the case or whether you had to do something else to get them to show.

It seems I may be the only cyclist in Lanarkshire to have found Strava

whitebait01

I had problems the first time I uploaded a segment because my GPS didn't have a high enough sample rate, I think it was logging a point every 5 seconds, because the points were too far apart I missed the start and end of a couple of segments. Might be the issue. Alternatively, you might just be the only one...

Wrath Rob

9th overall on Putney Bridge. Was engaging in some scalping action so didn't pull out all the stops (one can't be seen to be trying). I reckon there's easily another 6 seconds there to knock JZed of his KoM perch so may have to ditch SCR and blast the bridge next time I'm coming back that way.

jzed

Good luck - I'm level with Jens on that one so not sure faster is possible.

Another KOM tonight. Perfect lights for Blackfriars to Westminster - but with the headwind I'll take it. 3 out of 4 20mphs so far this week.

jonny_trousers

Sweet! It would appear I am now KOM for Waterloo Bridge South (sorry Il Principe), yet put in a horrifyingly pitiful time for College Road even by my own sh*tty hill climbing standards (high cadence in a very low gear clearly doesn't work either, then. Bollox!)

jzed

Fecking pedestrian crossing by the tate....convinced I was about to smash the Millbank North segment. Nicely built up speed - 33 passed the Morpeth - still accelerating round the corner - RED - nobody in miles.* The story would have continued - loads more in the legs uo to around 36, held to the incline, and losing speed down to 30 by the roundabout. Average of maybe 31.5-32mph

All in all a rubbish ride in.

* Ron - just how much are you paying the big fat red light controller?

roger_merriman

suzyb wrote:

So no segments showing means no one has created any. Wondered if that was the case or whether you had to do something else to get them to show.

It seems I may be the only cyclist in Lanarkshire to have found Strava

most of the segments I've creatied in the Breacon Beacons around my folks place are empty bar the times I come down, the few that are have a lot of the london clubs/SCR lot!

Pufftmw

Its a lovely morning, bit nippy maybe but a nice day for a ride - upped my KOM on Jamaica Road to Mill St Sprint & up to 3rd on TB North - another couple of seconds to knock off that one still.

JamesFree

Legs felt completely dead but thought I would give a slightly different route and take in the South Circular and take in a small hill or two and managed a 22.6mph average, don;t think i will be able to replicate that on the return journey and was a shame there were no segments though! Also my garmin didnt seem to get GPS lock until a mile in to my ride and it missed a nice downhill segment!

Wrath Rob

JZed wrote:

Fecking pedestrian crossing by the tate....convinced I was about to smash the Millbank North segment. Nicely built up speed - 33 passed the Morpeth - still accelerating round the corner - RED - nobody in miles.* The story would have continued - loads more in the legs uo to around 36, held to the incline, and losing speed down to 30 by the roundabout. Average of maybe 31.5-32mph

All in all a rubbish ride in.

* Ron - just how much are you paying the big fat red light controller?

Not enough. I was on for a cracking Ab-CB time this morning when a ped stopped traffic by walking over the zebra crossing and then red lights by the Gardens. Took the wind out of my sails a little and I struggled to get my mojo back after that. Stupid head cold. Off to drink more Lemsip...

bigmat

Fecking Strava. It appears that I am on occasion too fast for my GPS to keep up. Managed to lower my London Bridge southbound record to 33 seconds (checked manually) but Strava didn't register me on that segment. Then this morning I stormed through Elephant & Castle, pretty sure I recorded a new KOM, but again Strava couldn't keep up. My Court House Sprint segment was also lost. :evil:

jzed

Wrath Rob wrote:

I was on for a cracking Ab-CB time this morning when a ped stopped traffic by walking over the zebra crossingquote]

Did the pedestrian do the sprint to the crossing, so you start to slow, then they stand there until you completely stop, wait a little bit more, you think balls I'm going to go and then they step out, and then take for ever to get across.