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Ben6899

kelsen wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Okay, I sorted out a Strava account this morning. Username is "Ben H".

I've uploaded my four most recent rides from my Garmin Connect account. I'm 2nd and 3rd fastest on quite a few segments that I didn't even know existed... or at least that's what I think it's telling me?

Can anyone help? For example, it tells me I'm 2nd fastest for Regents Park CCW, but then I know my time isn't good enough and I am not on the leaderboard. Does it mean I was 2nd fastest on that particular date?

Thanks

PS. add/follow me or whatever one does!

That'll be fastest out of your own rides, otherwise it'll say 2nd or 3rd Overall

Thanks, that will explain it. I can ride a bit, but I know there are plenty of folk out there quicker than I am and there's no way a 7:30 is going to land me 3rd fastest for a Regents Park lap!

I presume PR = Personal Record?

EDIT: PS. 6th overall on Alexandra Palace Way to Dukes Avenue and I wasn't even trying. This is bringing out the very worst in me.

willy b

Added you Ben.

Regents park is a strange one, quite a few junctions & traffic lights so to set a godo time you have to get a clear run! There are loads of segments around the park though

PR = Personal Record
KOM = King of Mountain (leader on segment)

You'll become addicted!

Ben6899

willy b wrote:

Added you Ben.

Regents park is a strange one, quite a few junctions & traffic lights so to set a godo time you have to get a clear run! There are loads of segments around the park though

PR = Personal Record
KOM = King of Mountain (leader on segment)

You'll become addicted!

Thanks Will. Regents Park times also depend on if you're willing to jump the red lights as well. I'm not; been warned once when I had a lapse of responsibility and the threatened £30 fine would buy me dinner for the week!

Gussio

Don't talk to me about fines - I'm just off the phone to the Spanish police, parting with €50 for speeding on the motorway between Barcelona and Valencia earlier this year. The speed cameras over there aren't as visible as the ones in the UK :roll:

il_principe

Pufftmw wrote:

Il Principe wrote:

The solo, every single time. Especially if you're achieving an av of over 17.5.

I did 17.4 to Brighton on Sunday and that was very hard work I can tell you

I hear that! I did London to Ditchling Beacon and back on Easter Friday. 18.7 av on the way, 17.6 on the way back (so basically an av of 18mph over 97 miles) - that was indeed hard work.

Also rode a flat-ish 80 mile loop last weekend out Guildford way and managed a 19.1 av. Actually Garmin Connect says 19.4 but Strava downgraded it . That included an unplanned off road section down 2 dirt (mud) tracks, which slowed me big time. I always get annoyed by the return trip into London - lights and traffic means you see the average tick ever downwards and there's nothing you can of about it! Trying to sustain a good pace like that over a long solo ride has to be good training for the Pyrenees in June - all about consistent effort. It is hard work though!

JamesFree

I always find London to Brighton much quicker than the way back even at the same effort level.

Was super pleased with last weeks ride average of 19.6mph (strava downgraded it to 19.4mpg) even though I did dent my average/time with a slow Ditchling climb again.

il_principe

JamesFree wrote:

I always find London to Brighton much quicker than the way back even at the same effort level.

Was super pleased with last weeks ride average of 19.6mph (strava downgraded it to 19.4mpg) even though I did dent my average/time with a slow Ditchling climb again.

Chapeau! Was that to Brighton and back?

JamesFree

Nope just to Brighton so worked out at only 53.7 miles over 3071 feet so fairly flat really as there is only one real climb, but when I have rode back before my return leg was 2 mph slower!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/168672179

Pufftmw

JamesFree wrote:

I always find London to Brighton much quicker than the way back even at the same effort level.

Was super pleased with last weeks ride average of 19.6mph (strava downgraded it to 19.4mpg) even though I did dent my average/time with a slow Ditchling climb again.

& with a slow passenger (me)
& with getting lost again

I am pleased that I am still able to walk and I found Brighton to London quicker as I was on the train

okgo

If you turn auto pause off your Garmin you'll get matching figures on Strava and Connect.

il_principe

JamesFree wrote:

Nope just to Brighton so worked out at only 53.7 miles over 3071 feet so fairly flat really as there is only one real climb, but when I have rode back before my return leg was 2 mph slower!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/168672179

I guess the descent in Brighton helps get the average up a little as well - but that's a damn good pace. Planning a Brighton and back when the weather improves, be nice to have lunch by the sea before turning round. The return is always slower eh!

Pufftmw

I saw 46 on my descent, with which I was quite happy. Scared the bejusus out of me though as I didn't know the road and what might pull out on me... :shock:

JamesFree

Il Principe wrote:

JamesFree wrote:

Nope just to Brighton so worked out at only 53.7 miles over 3071 feet so fairly flat really as there is only one real climb, but when I have rode back before my return leg was 2 mph slower!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/168672179

I guess the descent in Brighton helps get the average up a little as well - but that's a damn good pace. Planning a Brighton and back when the weather improves, be nice to have lunch by the sea before turning round. The return is always slower eh!

Do you do the same route back?, as the first time I tried a different route I ended up on the A23!

kelsen

JamesFree wrote:

Do you do the same route back?, as the first time I tried a different route I ended up on the A23!

I did L2B2L and came back via the A23. At least up until the nth lorry passed by me at 60mph and I got thrown about by the turbulence that I started fearing for my life and decided the B roads were a better option.

il_principe

JamesFree wrote:

Il Principe wrote:

JamesFree wrote:

Nope just to Brighton so worked out at only 53.7 miles over 3071 feet so fairly flat really as there is only one real climb, but when I have rode back before my return leg was 2 mph slower!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/168672179

I guess the descent in Brighton helps get the average up a little as well - but that's a damn good pace. Planning a Brighton and back when the weather improves, be nice to have lunch by the sea before turning round. The return is always slower eh!

Do you do the same route back?, as the first time I tried a different route I ended up on the A23!

Yep - my route is here http://app.strava.com/rides/6283023. I discovered a good little Cafe somewhere on the way home as well, brilliant chocolate biscuit slice, but I cannot remember where it was! Lindfield maybe?

okgo

Lingfield? Sounds familiar if so...


Ah, there is a Lindfield too

JamesFree

okgo wrote:

Lingfield? Sounds familiar if so...


Ah, there is a Lindfield too

That's where I always seem to get lost (I go straight up instead of turning left down lewes road) looks a nice little village though!

bobinski

Oohh! My first ever KOM

http://app.strava.com/rides/7011130#131762545

Absolutely chuffed given the weather yesterday.

Ed F

Bit of luck with the lights along the Embankment, coupled with less traffic as left home late, and lo and behold, I've nabbed the Chelsea Embankment KoM 8)

Ben6899

Just getting around to uploading my Garmin back catalogue. Turns out I've been KOM on a certain little bastard of a hill up North, near my parents' house for a year or so!

willy b

Managed to get 4th on Shoot up Hill, was only going to the shops on the crap bike in normal clothes

JamesFree

@ willyb

I don't think anyone has given it full beans up there yet, I was on a recovery ride/pootle to Hampstead the other day on the SS for some Easter lunch and managed to get up near the top and didn't even know the segment was there

optimisticbiker

JamesFree wrote:

@ willyb

I don't think anyone has given it full beans up there yet, I was on a recovery ride/pootle to Hampstead the other day on the SS for some Easter lunch and managed to get up near the top and didn't even know the segment was there

And you still made 8th... I'm impressed at maintaining near 20mph up there. Puts my lowly 20th into perspective, mind you i've not uploaded a segment since last year, and I'm usually doing it in the rush hour, dodging peds and taxis etc. (thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it )

Yukirin

just tried a Richmond lap before dark but the gps died on sawyers.however, I either pulled a 101 or a 104 up dark hill, depending which segment you read. One places me ahead of jzed, the other does not.
The good segment: strava.com/segments/629607

madtam

Not being ondon based but in fact miles away oop North, I am still pleased that on a quick blast round tonight I have apparently made first on a little 7.5 mile loop near home.
It's made my day, on top of the Scrumpy I used to rehydrate afterwards (well it was sat in the fridge doing nothing and I was a little thirsty).

UndercoverElephant

Bloody, fecking bastard Strava! Twice this week conditions have been perfect* for a crack at a segment I want. Twice I absolutely blitzed it (flat, 1.8 mile segment, never saw my speedo go under 30 once) to the point of nearly vomiting after the segment and twice Strava seems to have stopped recording *JUST* before the segment starts.

Bunch of blooming arse!

* Mahoosive blooming tailwind

Indieras

According to strava I managed to set a new record this morning on the hill chasers segment of park street in bristol. I can't believe it's right tbh. I am just getting over a chest infection and had a backpack on, so hardly ideal conditions excluding the other riders i had to get round. Perhaps I should just except my new found climbing prowess.

Be good

Ben6899

I've started following a bunch of folk on Strava - people who I have "ridden with" and people who are being followed by others I follow. With the assumption that many of them are from these boards.

So... "Ben H" on Strava is a not a stalker weirdo, he is me!

willy b

Ben - Did I see you last night near Ave Road? about 6pm ish?

jzed

Bagged a KOM on my new commute, on a hill, 13 seconds quicker than second. Says it all about the competition on the new commute. 5 segments on the way and and 6 on the way home to smash.