Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

dhope

JZed wrote:

Hmmm, I think the new bike is very fast. I picked up a 7th overall on a hill and only 16 seconds off top, with a set of dead legs. Now to plan a route to take in as many of the local strava segments as possible.

Nice, but you're not allowed to go west of Tower Bridge anymore

Please

itboffin

JZed wrote:

Hmmm, I think the new bike is very fast. I picked up a 7th overall on a hill and only 16 seconds off top, with a set of dead legs. Now to plan a route to take in as many of the local strava segments as possible.

Why dont you MTFU and come and try some of my local segments, these ones go up not down :twisted:

jzed

itboffin wrote:

JZed wrote:

Hmmm, I think the new bike is very fast. I picked up a 7th overall on a hill and only 16 seconds off top, with a set of dead legs. Now to plan a route to take in as many of the local strava segments as possible.

Why dont you MTFU and come and try some of my local segments, these ones go up not down :twisted:

Your ones look lie they're 3%. This was 5.5%, thats vertical for a man of my stature.

itboffin

JZed wrote:

itboffin wrote:

JZed wrote:

Hmmm, I think the new bike is very fast. I picked up a 7th overall on a hill and only 16 seconds off top, with a set of dead legs. Now to plan a route to take in as many of the local strava segments as possible.

Why dont you MTFU and come and try some of my local segments, these ones go up not down :twisted:

Your ones look lie they're 3%. This was 5.5%, thats vertical for a man of my stature.

under 16% doesnt even count old bean as you WILL soon find out :twisted:

iPete

Nuun Twice the Tour Challenge - 1004 miles [67%] BOOM

cyclingprop

itboffin wrote:

JZed wrote:

itboffin wrote:

JZed wrote:

Hmmm, I think the new bike is very fast. I picked up a 7th overall on a hill and only 16 seconds off top, with a set of dead legs. Now to plan a route to take in as many of the local strava segments as possible.

Why dont you MTFU and come and try some of my local segments, these ones go up not down :twisted:

Your ones look lie they're 3%. This was 5.5%, thats vertical for a man of my stature.

under 16% doesnt even count old bean as you WILL soon find out :twisted:

16% :shock:

I tried 20% once. It wasn't a pleasant walk either. But then I'm "a lot" heavier than even Ribble, or Beyonce's husband.

mr_ribble

iPete wrote:

Nuun Twice the Tour Challenge - 1004 miles [67%] BOOM

Kudos, 995 and 67% for me

itboffin

cyclingprop wrote:

I tried 20% once. It wasn't a pleasant walk either. But then I'm "a lot" heavier than even Ribble, or Beyonce's husband.

We accidently came across this nice 25% dig a couple of weekends ago http://app.strava.com/rides/8454797#154923370 I was not amused, managed to grind my way up at 2.7mph - that hurt.

Followed by this one at 20% http://app.strava.com/rides/8454797#154923364

Now I was just annoyed

dhope

itboffin wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

I tried 20% once. It wasn't a pleasant walk either. But then I'm "a lot" heavier than even Ribble, or Beyonce's husband.

We accidently came across this nice 25% dig a couple of weekends ago http://app.strava.com/rides/8454797#154923370 I was not amused, managed to grind my way up at 2.7mph - that hurt.

Followed by this one at 20% http://app.strava.com/rides/8454797#154923364

Now I was just annoyed

On a ride down to see family I borrowed someone else's route from RideswithGPS.
http://app.strava.com/segments/646102

27 fecking percent at the last bit. That's not a hill, that's an overhang.

cjcp

Warning: Pizza and beer the night before early intervals may not be a good idea. No resurfacing issues, but the repeating taste is a little unpleasant.

willy b

Pfftt, 20% Try 40% 8)
http://app.strava.com/segments/612982

Not 100% it's accurate though...

il_principe

cjcp wrote:

Warning: Pizza and beer the night before early intervals may not be a good idea. No resurfacing issues, but the repeating taste is a little unpleasant.

Fook but it was hard work in RP at 6am this morning. Took a pitiful tilt at the 3lap challenge. Felt like I was going hard, but the lap times were miles off the pace - best lap was a whole minute off my year's best. 54:37 is nowhere near good enough. I'm blaming tiredness from Cyprus and the time of day, but bottom line is - Must Do Better, a lot better.

Might have another crack at it sometime over the long weekend, at a more sensible time of day, but I'm never gonna get close to the likes of Mr.Ribble and Big Mat. Chapeau chaps.

mr_ribble

I dont think you had the wind in your favour. When I went down Sawyers this morning I felt no presence of a headwind. Wait for a good easterly and that will help you no end.

okgo

Tomorrow night or later this evening looks good.

Might go along tonight at about half 8.

bigmat

Il Principe wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Warning: Pizza and beer the night before early intervals may not be a good idea. No resurfacing issues, but the repeating taste is a little unpleasant.

Fook but it was hard work in RP at 6am this morning. Took a pitiful tilt at the 3lap challenge. Felt like I was going hard, but the lap times were miles off the pace - best lap was a whole minute off my year's best. 54:37 is nowhere near good enough. I'm blaming tiredness from Cyprus and the time of day, but bottom line is - Must Do Better, a lot better.

Might have another crack at it sometime over the long weekend, at a more sensible time of day, but I'm never gonna get close to the likes of Mr.Ribble and Big Mat. Chapeau chaps.

Less of that defeatist talk! It really is dependent on conditions - wind, temperature, traffic (and that's before you get on to the stuff you can actually control). It didn't feel like I had good conditions the other night, but in retrospect I think the wind must have been in my favour. Trouble is when you are hurting you never think things are going well, so you end up convincing yourself that there must be a headwind the whole way round!

il_principe

BigMat wrote:

Less of that defeatist talk! It really is dependent on conditions - wind, temperature, traffic (and that's before you get on to the stuff you can actually control). It didn't feel like I had good conditions the other night, but in retrospect I think the wind must have been in my favour. Trouble is when you are hurting you never think things are going well, so you end up convincing yourself that there must be a headwind the whole way round!

Temp this morning was about 12. From what I understand an increase in air temp to 22 or so should probably be worth at least 30 seconds or so. Marginal gains!

mr_ribble

Right conditions for me

1. Rested legs for a day and a half
2. Quiet Sunday evening with just one twunt who was driving slowly while the girlfriend was hanging out the sunroof like it was fricking safari
3. Easterly
4. Sodding quick Dynamo who passed me on the last lap (up Dark) and got 100m up the road within seconds. I chased that wheel so hard it felt like I was having a baby. Turns out he was a sub 50 minuter.

okgo

Pacing is important. That good lap I did the other day when the easterly was very strong was a testament to that, I took Sawyers at tempo as opposed to threshold, and in doing so had plenty more to power over the top and really hit the downhill to Kingston hard.

Sharkyssurfers

oh yeeeaaahhhh,

bag this KOM last night,http://app.strava.com/rides/9790624#173629830 would of been three if it wasn't for traffic GRRRRR

bigmat

okgo wrote:

Pacing is important. That good lap I did the other day when the easterly was very strong was a testament to that, I took Sawyers at tempo as opposed to threshold, and in doing so had plenty more to power over the top and really hit the downhill to Kingston hard.

I hit Sawyers quite hard but pretty much ambled up Dark Hill - I reckon that stretch from the top of Dark Hill to the little dip before Broomfield descent you can lose a shedload of time on if you burn your legs up Dark...

okgo

I always have shit legs there due to burning up dark hill lol.

Yukirin

I'll probably hit the park later, too. Though will be a late twighlight ride.

jds_1981

woohoo, slight detour and a Friday KOM. Swear I had a headwind too.

chadders81

Getting sick of seeing Jzed at the top of all the leaderboards I've logged times on.

Is it the same guy off here?

However, I've found one where I am above him.

Fuck - this is addictive. Off to the park tomorrow - hope it's not full of drivers treating it like a safari park. They should get rid of the deer.

JonS123

Hmm Just got a uh-oh email about a lost KOM but when I logged in i'm still top, has the guy who stole my kom deleted his ride or something?

*edit*

In the email it said it was beaten by 1 min 45 sec, and by my rough maths that would mean a average speed of 37mph, and on this sort of segment I would doubt anything over 30mph - http://app.strava.com/segments/1162059


This strava is to addictive, now planning different routes to work just to collect some segments

okgo

Well finally got in there and did 3 laps, wasn't too held up at all, slowed a touch on the first lap due to a car (might have cost me a 15.xx lap) a momentary slow for a deer lap 2, and another momentary slow as my chain dropped from big to small ring.

49.01 - http://app.strava.com/rides/9875047

redvee

I also had the 'it's time to MTFU' email from Strava Wednesday, so I did. Regained my KoM today but only by 18sec but improved my PB by 2 minutes.

Yukirin

okgo wrote:

Well finally got in there and did 3 laps, wasn't too held up at all, slowed a touch on the first lap due to a car (might have cost me a 15.xx lap) a momentary slow for a deer lap 2, and another momentary slow as my chain dropped from big to small ring.

49.01 - http://app.strava.com/rides/9875047

Would have thought you'd be faster up dark hill though? 7 seconds slower 2nd time up, too?
Maybe if I didnt kill myself up dark hill I'd recover quicker and be overall faster between kingston and broomfield. It definatly takes me a good minute or more to get up to speed again after dark hill.

okgo

As I said, it's about pacing. And I went too hard on first lap. You going up dark hill 10 secs faster but then losing 40 secs trying to get up to speed isn't the fastest way.

For one hard lap, I'd put more effort into the hills as there is plenty of time left there to shave off if it's only
A 15 min effort.

dhope

Kudos Rob, that's properly rapid