Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

Gussio

RH2BE completed with hours to spare yesterday 8) Climbing challenge woefully uncompleted. Nuun challenge on *ignore*.

bobinski

UndercoverElephant wrote:

On the verge of ripping the pedals off the bike this morning, really gunning for a 2-mile, flat segment. Looked down and saw 37.5 mph on the speedo, held it over 32 the whole distance, pulled up and bloody Strava had done it again: stopped recording 1.4 km from my house. Stoopid Android POS. That's every ride for the past two weeks I've tried, and it's not worked once.

May have invested in a Holux GPSport 245, before I ditch Strava for good.

Respect.
That is some speed. I can only dream...

veronese68

Padders. With all due respect would you please delete yourself from any of the rides I do as whilst I can see myself beating most of the other times yours are rather soul destroying. So nothing personal, but would you mind terribly if I ask you to kindly fook off?
Alternatively I get some MTFU or just don't look.

Sharkyssurfers

i would just like some followers sob sob ( dont know why, just feel lonely on strava

veronese68

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

i would just like some followers sob sob ( dont know why, just feel lonely on strava

I'll follow you, if you're slow.

Edit: Just clicked the link in your sig and it doesn't work. Could be because you spelt it "starva"

Sharkyssurfers

well i am slow in some people on stava's eyes or should i say legs ;o)

willy b

Yeah, your link doesn't work

veronese68

This one does: http://app.strava.com/athletes/amander

Sharkyssurfers

oh bugger, must of been hungry when typring it in will change.

UndercoverElephant

bobinski wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

On the verge of ripping the pedals off the bike this morning, really gunning for a 2-mile, flat segment. Looked down and saw 37.5 mph on the speedo, held it over 32 the whole distance, pulled up and bloody Strava had done it again: stopped recording 1.4 km from my house. Stoopid Android POS. That's every ride for the past two weeks I've tried, and it's not worked once.

May have invested in a Holux GPSport 245, before I ditch Strava for good.

Respect.
That is some speed. I can only dream...

Good tailwind innit. Plus, because Strava crashed, I can't prove anything anyway, so it never happened.

Pufftmw

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

i would just like some followers sob sob ( dont know why, just feel lonely on strava

I'm following you now - see your 7th on HSBC matches me! There's more to come on a clear run there I think.

Sharkyssurfers

yeah always time it with loads of peds and lights are not good for me, an early weekend and you could easily up the speed

padders

Veronese68 wrote:

Padders. With all due respect would you please delete yourself from any of the rides I do as whilst I can see myself beating most of the other times yours are rather soul destroying. So nothing personal, but would you mind terribly if I ask you to kindly fook off?
Alternatively I get some MTFU or just don't look.

*Hurries off to follow Veronese68 on Strava... Dons stalker attire and vows to heave lungs out through nostrils attempting to thrash his segments (that sounds all kinds of wrong)* :twisted:

veronese68

Padders wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Padders. With all due respect would you please delete yourself from any of the rides I do as whilst I can see myself beating most of the other times yours are rather soul destroying. So nothing personal, but would you mind terribly if I ask you to kindly fook off?
Alternatively I get some MTFU or just don't look.

*Hurries off to follow Veronese68 on Strava... Dons stalker attire and vows to heave lungs out through nostrils attempting to thrash his segments (that sounds all kinds of wrong)* :twisted:

Haha!! I'm following you now. The stalkee stalks the stalker, or some such.

iPete

Strava is no fun on a Garmin 800, no instant post ride gratification

Blonde Cyclist

iPete wrote:

Strava is no fun on a Garmin 800, no instant post ride gratification

But now you can also post to Garminconnect, Sport Tracks, Training Peaks and have many subtly different views of your training effort...

bigmat

Blonde Cyclist wrote:

iPete wrote:

Strava is no fun on a Garmin 800, no instant post ride gratification

But now you can also post to Garminconnect, Sport Tracks, Training Peaks and have many subtly different views of your training effort...

Is there actually any point in any of those if you already use Strava? I have registered with Garminconnect but never bother uploading rides to it...

Blonde Cyclist

BigMat wrote:

Blonde Cyclist wrote:

iPete wrote:

Strava is no fun on a Garmin 800, no instant post ride gratification

But now you can also post to Garminconnect, Sport Tracks, Training Peaks and have many subtly different views of your training effort...

Is there actually any point in any of those if you already use Strava? I have registered with Garminconnect but never bother uploading rides to it...

It depends on what sort of data you want to see. If you just want the route and basic info, Strava is fine. I have an 800 and when you're looking at longer rides I like the profiles that GC gives you - you can see if your cadence started to drop towards the end of a ride or if your speed was affected by a temperature change... Or if you split your ride into laps you can see that etc etc etc. It's quite a lot more detailed than Strava on a lot of things and for the effort of uploading pretty interesting.

I use Sport Tracks as it's offline and displays everything in a slightly better way than GC whilst giving similar breakdowns (although some data is missing as I haven't paid for plug ins, hence using GC as well).

Not sure about Training Peaks as its the one I don't use but I think that starts to come into it's own if you train with power.

bigmat

Blonde Cyclist wrote:

BigMat wrote:

Blonde Cyclist wrote:

iPete wrote:

Strava is no fun on a Garmin 800, no instant post ride gratification

But now you can also post to Garminconnect, Sport Tracks, Training Peaks and have many subtly different views of your training effort...

Is there actually any point in any of those if you already use Strava? I have registered with Garminconnect but never bother uploading rides to it...

It depends on what sort of data you want to see. If you just want the route and basic info, Strava is fine. I have an 800 and when you're looking at longer rides I like the profiles that GC gives you - you can see if your cadence started to drop towards the end of a ride or if your speed was affected by a temperature change... Or if you split your ride into laps you can see that etc etc etc. It's quite a lot more detailed than Strava on a lot of things and for the effort of uploading pretty interesting.

I use Sport Tracks as it's offline and displays everything in a slightly better way than GC whilst giving similar breakdowns (although some data is missing as I haven't paid for plug ins, hence using GC as well).

Not sure about Training Peaks as its the one I don't use but I think that starts to come into it's own if you train with power.

Might give it a go then, the speed / HR / cadence info on Strava is all a bit compressed.

Ben6899

What Blonde Cyclist said; Garmin Connect is a really nice piece of free software. Strava is nice for the competetive element, but it does lack some detail for really scrutinising a ride.

JamesFree

Managed to get the Denmark Hill segment on my second attempt, it felt like a good run at the time even though it was a standing start at the lights

http://app.strava.com/rides/7747317#143996603

Sharkyssurfers

woohoooooo chesty cold and i managed a 3rd place in the big ben sprint section well chuffed.

willy b

PR and second overall for Blackfriars to Westminster, and quickest this week so far on Embankment Westbound. I'll take that

cjcp

Got the hump for putting in all that effort only for that smart@rse comment "No achievements earned" to appear? :evil:

Simples.

Create your own segment and feel good again.

UndercoverElephant

Finally worked out how to get Strava on my android working again. I found that if I cleared all the app's data and re-booted my phone, all was well. The wind wasn't as good as earlier in the week, but I started going for it on the segment I've been gunning for. I re-worked the song, "The Blaydon Races" to tell you all about it.

Way-hay! Me 'nads,
I whacked them on me saddle
thanks to me Keo's crappy cleats,
me foot slipped off me pedal.
Gritted me teeth
an' choked back the tears
I'm clearly an octave higher
and after that there's still no waaaaaaaay
I'm KOM on Strava

okgo

Ben6899 wrote:

What Blonde Cyclist said; Garmin Connect is a really nice piece of free software. Strava is nice for the competetive element, but it does lack some detail for really scrutinising a ride.

I dunno, I found that when I had the powertap and premium Strava I could gain quite a lot of info from it!

Ben6899

So Strava gives you a lot of information, if you've shelled out for a power meter and Premium access.

alansd1980

iPete wrote:

Strava is no fun on a Garmin 800, no instant post ride gratification

According to Strava you and I rode together going down to brighton today... Cant remember where we would have crossed paths.

iPete

alansd1980 wrote:

iPete wrote:

Strava is no fun on a Garmin 800, no instant post ride gratification

According to Strava you and I rode together going down to brighton today... Cant remember where we would have crossed paths.

Epic, kudos for cycling back! I was going to do the same but I didn't pack overshoes, couldn't feel my feet for a good 2 hours!

Were you riding in a duo, I came up behind 2 riders [one in a red jacket I think] and was looking forward to a quick chat in the rain but being a Garmin droid followed the directions and went down a side road and came out in front of them. Was dressed in black with a super bright rear light, may have seen me ahead?

Looking at my route it was after Reigate golf club. I went down Orpin road, the others Nutfield.

alansd1980

That would have been us! About 7.30ish? I was in a grey jacket on my blue kona and dave was in the red. It certainly is a small world. We stopped for a "comfort break" not too long after that and then another guy we were with punctured just after turners hill so you probably left us far behind

I dont really remember seeing anyone but it was a bit of a struggle today so was probably sticking to daves wheel trying to keep out of the wind!