Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

iPete

Jzed, have you been stripped of Richmond hill road? Noticed I'd ranked high up today and could have taken it if I'd tried because you no longer seem to be at the top!

fossyant

Just registered, and uploaded some Garmin Data. Very pleased with some of the results without trying - most of the hills are mid ride so I'm not going flat out, but well within top 10 ! I don't use my Garmin for commuting as my route is flat.

Some of the results look very odd though - some seriously quick riders/moped riders !!!

DonDaddyD

How do you set your times to private?

Gussio

DonDaddyD wrote:

How do you set your times to private?

Private schmivate

EKE_38BPM

DonDaddyD wrote:

How do you set your times to private?

Embarrassed?

roger_merriman

DonDaddyD wrote:

How do you set your times to private?

once you've uploaded the ride you can make it private by clicking on the actions tab, which has a make ride private option.

But thats not really what strava is about, plenty have times in segments that in no way reflect performance.

that doesn't mean you'll not get ribbed about it though! but well it's just fun this is not serious.

dhope

EKE_38BPM wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

How do you set your times to private?

Embarrassed?

DDD, you can tell Strava to put a 1/2 mile circle around particular postcodes if you want to hide your start and finish points. The rest is just for bragging, and you're going to lose 2 of your 3 Ds if you're hiding you averages

DDD - Power Awesome
D - Power Unknown

You decide

notsoblue

DonDaddyD wrote:

How do you set your times to private?

Theres settings for that, but I wouldn't bother.

You can make private segments though, they're pretty handy for charting your progress without other people's rides clogging everything up.

jzed

iPete wrote:

Jzed, have you been stripped of Richmond hill road? Noticed I'd ranked high up today and could have taken it if I'd tried because you no longer seem to be at the top!

If it includes Hill in the segment then it is unlikely I was anywhere near the top to start with.

mr_ribble

Fat is dead weight so you will do better going up hills with less of it. But we are talking about 2/3 racing here. FWIW there is a a Twickers CC rider who must be over 100kg and hes a 2nd cat.

People are always quick to use ut as an excuse. Do you think Eros Poli stood on the start line in Montpellier and complained about the fact he was 91kg. No he mtfu'ed and got over the goddam hill.

okgo

I do agree with you, and its entirely possible to get to 2nd cat at probably almost any weight. Hillingdon is pretty easy for bigger blokes, hence I did alright there. But I want to do proper races and really see where I can get to in the sport (1st Cat is a goal for the next couple of years), and having ridden with some of the faster guys in our club, I've no issue keeping up on the flat, or even dictating the pace, but when it gets steep I just can't hold on.

As I said I was 95 kg or more xmas 2010 so I've certainly had a good crack at losing weight (82kg now) but there's no denying that its hard work when you're a bigger bloke, hence the comments.

DonDaddyD

OK some Strave stats. [*]Disclaimer, wasn't trying, lots of wind and wasn't trying. I just rode this to find out what and where was being measured. Will attack the GC in coming weeks/months/years.

I'm only going to measure the overall commute and the CS7 Segments to Clapham Common.

Overall commute - Wimbledon to Liverpool Street
Distance: 10.5miles
Time: 48:31
Speed: 12.9mph

Segment:
CS7 Colliers Wood (tube station) to Tooting Broadway (tube)
Time: 2mins 59secs
Speed: 16.9mh
Current Rank 33/111

CS7 Tooting Broadway to Tooting Bec
Time: 2mins 52secs
Speed: 12.4mph
Current Rank: 99/137

CS7 Tooting Bec to Balham
Time: 2mins 41secs
Speed: 14.2mph
Current Rank: 93/115

Balham Hill
Time: 1min 13secs (wtf!)
Speed: 11.6mph
Current Rank: 142/149

CS7 Clapham South to Clapham Common
Time: 3:38
Speed: 11.5mph
Current Rank: 125/133

The above certainly isn't what Awesome looks like

cyclingprop

DonDaddyD wrote:

Disclaimer, wasn't trying, lots of wind and wasn't trying.

Not valid* [*]at least you're not last

jzed

I think DDD's wind comment is fair. It would have been straight into it and it was pretty strong this morning (or my legs are dead - entirely plausible given I blew up spectacurlaly following Mr_Ribbles wheel at the track yesterday, who was following a few guys who were very fast and all who were being eclipsed by a female Irish International Cyclist - who was the definition of awesomeness).

sketchley

@DDD join the Silly Commuter Racers club.

I think I found you, am now following....

sketchley

@DDD there is an option in Strava to add an exclusion around where you live, suggest turning it on if you haven't already. This means no one can see where you live.

Also having seen your route I think we road some of the way home together a couple of weeks back. What bike do you ride?

DonDaddyD

JZed wrote:

I think DDD's wind comment is fair. It would have been straight into it and it was pretty strong this morning (or my legs are dead - entirely plausible given I blew up spectacurlaly following Mr_Ribbles wheel at the track yesterday, who was following a few guys who were very fast and all who were being eclipsed by a female Irish International Cyclist - who was the definition of awesomeness).

It was windy, but those numbers above aren't good enough for me. So whereas todays commute I imagined being Cadel Evans riding into the wind. For tomorrows commute I'm going to paint the words "STRAVA" onto my lenses for proper motivation.

I have an addictive personality. I must win at Strava.

rick_chasey

DonDaddyD wrote:

JZed wrote:

I think DDD's wind comment is fair. It would have been straight into it and it was pretty strong this morning (or my legs are dead - entirely plausible given I blew up spectacurlaly following Mr_Ribbles wheel at the track yesterday, who was following a few guys who were very fast and all who were being eclipsed by a female Irish International Cyclist - who was the definition of awesomeness).

It was windy, but those numbers above aren't good enough for me. So whereas todays commute I imagined being Cadel Evans riding into the wind. For tomorrows commute I'm going to paint the words "STRAVA" onto my lenses for proper motivation.

I have an addictive personality. I must win at Strava.

Strava is depressing.

I thought I was pretty fast till I started posting some times.

Also - I can't always get GPS signal.

Pufftmw

Rick Chasey wrote:

Strava is depressing.

I thought I was pretty fast till I started posting some times.

Also - I can't always get GPS signal.

Strava is uber depressing when you hit a segment hard that you have been trying on, get a good entry speed, give it 110% effort and race through the finish line only to find that Strava has tracked you into someone's back garden and the segment doesn't register

okgo

DonDaddyD wrote:

JZed wrote:

I think DDD's wind comment is fair. It would have been straight into it and it was pretty strong this morning (or my legs are dead - entirely plausible given I blew up spectacurlaly following Mr_Ribbles wheel at the track yesterday, who was following a few guys who were very fast and all who were being eclipsed by a female Irish International Cyclist - who was the definition of awesomeness).

It was windy, but those numbers above aren't good enough for me. So whereas todays commute I imagined being Cadel Evans riding into the wind. For tomorrows commute I'm going to paint the words "STRAVA" onto my lenses for proper motivation.

I have an addictive personality. I must win at Strava.

Its a tough one to win at! Especially with such varying traffic conditions. Some of the times along embankment are amazing and I wonder how they've managed to be so luck with lights etc! I found that the days before xmas were the best, quiet as you like.

il_principe

DonDaddyD wrote:

I have an addictive personality. I must win at Strava.

Good luck with that... Spend more time on it and you'll realise just how quick some people are.

Also, if you want accuracy you're far better off using something like a Garmin (with a wheel sensor) rather than your phone.

DonDaddyD

Thanks for the heads up Sketchley! When I say win, I mean at my own personal goals.

Oh and Sketch, I ride a Giant SCR3.

mr_ribble

JZed wrote:

I think DDD's wind comment is fair. It would have been straight into it and it was pretty strong this morning (or my legs are dead - entirely plausible given I blew up spectacurlaly following Mr_Ribbles wheel at the track yesterday, who was following a few guys who were very fast and all who were being eclipsed by a female Irish International Cyclist - who was the definition of awesomeness).

She was indeed very very good. We had everyone on the track and the pace was just winding up the whole time until you either decided you were toast and pulled off, or physically dead. With five riders left, I was in a whole world of pain just trying to keep her wheel. Three laps later she got on the front and the pace went atomic. When my vision started to get blurred and it became hard to see I pulled off the blue line. A lap later she had 25m on everyone and it was race over.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?phot ... 1165911215

Scalp intact though.. she was on some carbon bling with full disk rear and I was on a 90s boneshaker.

DonDaddyD

Il Principe wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

I have an addictive personality. I must win at Strava.

Good luck with that... Spend more time on it and you'll realise just how quick some people are.

Also, if you want accuracy you're far better off using something like a Garmin (with a wheel sensor) rather than your phone.

How do you set it so that you have to approve followers?

jzed

Mr_Ribble wrote:

JZed wrote:

I think DDD's wind comment is fair. It would have been straight into it and it was pretty strong this morning (or my legs are dead - entirely plausible given I blew up spectacurlaly following Mr_Ribbles wheel at the track yesterday, who was following a few guys who were very fast and all who were being eclipsed by a female Irish International Cyclist - who was the definition of awesomeness).

She was indeed very very good. We had everyone on the track and the pace was just winding up the whole time until you either decided you were toast and pulled off, or physically dead. With five riders left, I was in a whole world of pain just trying to keep her wheel. Three laps later she got on the front and the pace went atomic. When my vision started to get blurred and it became hard to see I pulled off the blue line. A lap later she had 25m on everyone and it was race over.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?phot ... 1165911215

Scalp intact though.. she was on some carbon bling with full disk rear and I was on a 90s boneshaker.

I'd just dropped off. Swung off the front after my turn and couldn't get back on your wheel. I blame the toe clips and the 10 pints the night before. Legs are destroyed.

Edit: would have loved to have strava to see how fast we were going. And a G metre for the bends

notsoblue

Rick Chasey wrote:

Strava is depressing.

I thought I was pretty fast till I started posting some times.

Certainly tempers the braggers (it did me :P)

rick_chasey

notsoblue wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Strava is depressing.

I thought I was pretty fast till I started posting some times.

Certainly tempers the braggers (it did me :P)

Indeed.

DonDaddyD

I'm still checking the data, this things amazing it's like Twitter for legs!

All I want to do is tomorrow's commute into work. I'm looking at my visible segments' leaderboard and quite loudly am saying "I can beat that, I can beat that, I know I can beat that".

veronese68

I don't consider myself very fast, but it's amazing the times some people post. Equally I sometimes surprise myself at how quick I've gone (for me).
The obvious thing to remember is it's only a bit of fun. It's not worth riding like a twunt. On the paths through Bushy Park I still slow down as I pass peds, especially dog walkers. And it's certainly not worth getting hurt for, that bloke in the states that supposedly got killed trying to regain a KOM.
I tend to only use it if I'm doing a different route to track my mileage, or if I'm out for a bit of fun. I don't use it on my standard commute.

DonDaddyD

Veronese68 wrote:

I don't consider myself very fast, but it's amazing the times some people post. Equally I sometimes surprise myself at how quick I've gone (for me).
The obvious thing to remember is it's only a bit of fun. It's not worth riding like a twunt. On the paths through Bushy Park I still slow down as I pass peds, especially dog walkers. And it's certainly not worth getting hurt for, that bloke in the states that supposedly got killed trying to regain a KOM.
I tend to only use it if I'm doing a different route to track my mileage, or if I'm out for a bit of fun. I don't use it on my standard commute.

First rule of SCR - Safety.

But it seems with the times I'm posting a pedestrian could complete crossing the road long before I've arrived to RLJ.

But yeah, it's just a bit of fun, it doesn't matter, just an unspoken game...