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  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    For some reason (left over trout & boiled spud for lunch maybe?) I was "in the zone" last night on the way home and absolutely caned it down OKR, resulting in a sub 6 min run including at least 25 secs lost at traffic lights! 2nd Overall on that segment now. Then Amersham Way beckoned but a slow moped at the start getting in the way and having to overtake cars meant only taking 1 sec off my time. There's more to come but I won't catch James Free/Big Mat I don't think.
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  • padders
    padders Posts: 77
    Decided to mix it up a bit this morning and pootle around some of the track in RP, low and behold, Strava delivers more segments to get my teeth into!

    No doubt my commute in is going to become increasingly strategic :D
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I feel a touch of the "Luggershall Dash" coming on
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  • aeon
    aeon Posts: 167
    unlocked a stack of achievements today, the best of which was finally cracking into the top half of the leaderboards for a few segments. yes, i'm that slow.

    also got over 16mph+ average for the first time as well, over an 18 mile trip. think it was the tailwind angel and the lack of lights in RP rather than any significant physical improvement. oh well, onwards and upwards, right?
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    aeon wrote:
    also got over 16mph+ average for the first time as well, over an 18 mile trip. think it was the tailwind angel and the lack of lights in RP rather than any significant physical improvement. oh well, onwards and upwards, right?

    This helps big time. You'll notice an improvement in fitness as the evenings get lighter and you go faster in the Park.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    okgo wrote:
    roger merriman wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    okgo wrote:
    Padders wrote:
    Starting to give some of the segments in RP a shot with reasonable (for me) efforts on Ballet School Hill and Col du Ham over the last few days which should improve and the year goes on, but still need to give Broomfield a proper balls-out attempt in the dry.

    Also, as a new initiate to SCR and the joy/pains of Strava it’s only right and proper than I calculate my FCN accurately. I’m a hairy legged bloke on a hub geared (Alfine 11), cx frame with egg-beaters. To my mind this puts me squarely between 4 (hairy legged roadie) and 5 (faux-single, egg-beater) on the starting points scale, is there an accepted etiquette for such a dilemma?

    The short hills are hard to get, Ballet School I think is nearly out of my league with its current leader. I'll try again one day, but I don't see me getting that one.

    Try some of the longer ones in the park, they're a lot more fun and less contested, hence I'm KOM for a couple of them. The one up Broomfield is safe too, there's no way I can get anywhere near that speed!

    The ones on the main route round will presumably have been taken by Dynamo riders riding in a group? Little realistic prospect of beating those, unless we got an SCR posse together!

    in the same way my way in to kingston is the same way KW and Dynamo's training runs go, our speeds differ somewhat! appart from the bridge but thats just grunt on my part.

    They will be training rides yeh, so Dynamo, Wheelers, and probably a good handful of people that did the Richmond Park TT. But you'd be surprised actually that a majority of the park KOM are people solo I *think*

    As for your route Roger, yes, its amazing how much quicker you can be as part of a group! BUT a lot of those KOM's on that route are solo too.

    yeah in a car! Hampton Green segment leader is 37mph average....

    looks like they went to a race then left the GPS running down the M3 max of 86mph....
  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    To my suprise I've moved upto 4th on the Westminster to Blackfriars Embankment section :D

    Wrath Rob - Are you still doing the weekly leaderbroards? Not seen it in a while, or maybe I have mssed it. Always interesting to ee how is putting in good times etc...
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    How to edit Strava runs with dodgy GPS?

    Phone was being a bit special today and had me zigzagging all over the place
    http://app.strava.com/runs/4224478
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Arrrrggghhhhh

    I am now too old . .

    So I saw there is a new version of the Strava Android App out . . .

    Go to the Android Market, search for strava get Velodroid and loads of weight loss apps , , , cough sputter , ,

    What am I doing wrong>?

    Strava cycling doesn't work either . . arghhhhh
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  • jonnyboy77
    jonnyboy77 Posts: 547
    https://market.android.com/details?id=com.strava
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    jonnyboy77 wrote:
    https://market.android.com/details?id=com.strava
    The requested item could not be found

    I think it's been pulled off . . . .
    gnurk . .
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  • jonnyboy77
    jonnyboy77 Posts: 547
    Greg T wrote:
    jonnyboy77 wrote:
    https://market.android.com/details?id=com.strava
    The requested item could not be found

    I think it's been pulled off . . . .
    gnurk . .

    I don't get that error on my PC?
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    jonnyboy77 wrote:
    I don't get that error on my PC?

    The phone's having none of it . . .

    It may be teh wi fi I'm squatting on has a net nanny on it ,. . . hmmmm
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Greg T wrote:
    It may be teh wi fi I'm squatting on has a net nanny on it ,. . . hmmmm

    Nope, not that . . .

    It's weird, on this PC I get the Strava app then all the rest, on the phone strava is missing but all the rest are there in the same order...

    Feck feckity feck
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  • jonnyboy77
    jonnyboy77 Posts: 547
    Greg T wrote:
    Greg T wrote:
    It may be teh wi fi I'm squatting on has a net nanny on it ,. . . hmmmm

    Nope, not that . . .

    It's weird, on this PC I get the Strava app then all the rest, on the phone strava is missing but all the rest are there in the same order...

    Feck feckity feck

    Download it using iTunes and then sync your .... oh wait, sorry ;)

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  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    Anyone with an HRM pay any attention to the Suffer Scores? Do you think it relates to how hard a ride was? Anyone top 275 (with 194 points in the red) that the missus did yesterday? :)
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  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    no, the score is total nonsense I think.
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Greg T wrote:
    Greg T wrote:
    It may be teh wi fi I'm squatting on has a net nanny on it ,. . . hmmmm

    Nope, not that . . .

    It's weird, on this PC I get the Strava app then all the rest, on the phone strava is missing but all the rest are there in the same order...

    Feck feckity feck
    Are you using an HTC phone? There are issues with the app on certain phones apparently, and you won't see it on the available apps list if you're using one of these phones. You have to make sure you're on a later version of Android and email Strava directly for an installation file.

    http://support.strava.com/kb/alerts-and ... oid-device
  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    okgo wrote:
    no, the score is total nonsense I think.

    Seems based on TrImp, which has quite a bit of scientific basis to it, at least for rides over an hour.
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  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    Hmm, my account seems to have reverted to non premium so can't look at mine. Were you out with KW yesterday? Think I saw your ride on Strava.
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  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    willy b wrote:
    Wrath Rob - Are you still doing the weekly leaderbroards? Not seen it in a while, or maybe I have mssed it. Always interesting to ee how is putting in good times etc...

    Been less focused on Strava as of late. However, there's nothing stopping anyone else from quoting one of my posts, checking out the link to the segment and pulling out the weekly SCR times....
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  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    okgo, no, just me, the gf and another pretty rapid Pearson girl, ex-international level lightweight rower. Was quite amusing sitting just behind them on the hills and seeing the looks on some blokes' faces as they were scalped by a couple of girls :) Kate seems to save a particular dislike for Cervelos being ridden slowly and I think she racked up a record number of those yesterday.

    TrImp/Suffer score is heart-rate based and is a product of how long you spent in each zone and a zone multiplier. A long ride all in Z4/Z5 will get a high score. Depends on your max HR being correct in Strava and isn't necessarily a sign of performance and seems biased to long rides. I'm sure people would find an hour of intervals harder work than a three or four hour long spin.
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    [quote="kelsenAre you using an HTC phone? There are issues with the app on certain phones apparently, and you won't see it on the available apps list if you're using one of these phones. You have to make sure you're on a later version of Android and email Strava directly for an installation file.

    http://support.strava.com/kb/alerts-and ... oid-device[/quote]


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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    kelsen wrote:
    Are you using an HTC phone? There are issues with the app on certain phones apparently, and you won't see it on the available apps list if you're using one of these phones. You have to make sure you're on a later version of Android and email Strava directly for an installation file.

    http://support.strava.com/kb/alerts-and ... oid-device


    Ahhhhhhhhhh

    yes . . . . .


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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,821
    Keyser__Soze wrote:
    okgo, no, just me, the gf and another pretty rapid Pearson girl, ex-international level lightweight rower. Was quite amusing sitting just behind them.
    Yes, I'm sure it was. You naughty man.
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Keyser__Soze wrote:
    another pretty rapid Pearson girl, ex-international level lightweight rower..

    Not initials SC by any chance?
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  • willy b
    willy b Posts: 4,125
    Wrath Rob wrote:
    willy b wrote:
    Wrath Rob - Are you still doing the weekly leaderbroards? Not seen it in a while, or maybe I have mssed it. Always interesting to ee how is putting in good times etc...

    Been less focused on Strava as of late. However, there's nothing stopping anyone else from quoting one of my posts, checking out the link to the segment and pulling out the weekly SCR times....

    Nice one :D I'll have a look when I'm home and see if I can work it out. Good idea!
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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    Seem to have lost half my KOM's to a Steve Oh. Appears to be a Wheeler riding the training rides. Okgo any ideas?
  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    Might be a new guy that comes along, I'll find out for you.
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  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    JZed wrote:
    Seem to have lost half my KOM's to a Steve Oh. Appears to be a Wheeler riding the training rides. Okgo any ideas?

    apparently he's a Pearson rider, but the Pearson training ride overlapped with the KW one, hence said they were on the same ride. He's quick though!
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