Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

itboffin

Chadders81 wrote:

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.

fark - 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.

I wouldnt worry jzed doesnt actually exist, made up by Strava much like frickin Bertie Wooster :evil:

itboffin

Push Attica down a place today in your face 'old-man' might even go for a JG crown this weekend :roll: :?

bigmat

okgo wrote:

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.

Can I take all the credit for the Dark Hill tip?!

okgo

dhope wrote:

Kudos Rob, that's properly rapid

Cheers. Will get a single lap in soon. Then that's fine. Till I get a tt bike

veronese68

I rarely get any achievements on my rides, mainly as I'm slow. But, I seem to get proportionally more on the few occasions I ride my old Marin. How can a rigid MTB with 2.5" tyres that rumble as they roll be faster than my Jake with 25mm Conti's? Maybe I should always use the Marin.

Airwave

itboffin wrote:

Chadders81 wrote:

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.

fark - 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.

I wouldnt worry jzed doesnt actually exist, made up by Strava much like frickin Bertie Wooster :evil:

I can confirm Bertie Wooster does exist as i've groveled up hills behind him&he's very good at defying gravity!He's 8ft tall&eats babies for breakfast

itboffin

Airwave wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Chadders81 wrote:

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.

fark - 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.

I wouldnt worry jzed doesnt actually exist, made up by Strava much like frickin Bertie Wooster :evil:

I can confirm Bertie Wooster does exist as i've groveled up hills behind him&he's very good at defying gravity!He's 8ft tall&eats babies for breakfast

Nope not listening :roll:

jds_1981

Airwave wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Chadders81 wrote:

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.

fark - 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.

I wouldnt worry jzed doesnt actually exist, made up by Strava much like frickin Bertie Wooster :evil:

I can confirm Bertie Wooster does exist as i've groveled up hills behind him&he's very good at defying gravity!He's 8ft tall&eats babies for breakfast

This Bertie Wooster?

http://app.strava.com/rides/7167463#134415220
http://app.strava.com/rides/7167463#134415225
http://app.strava.com/rides/7167463#134415224
http://app.strava.com/rides/7167463#134415215

itboffin

Yep that's the very one :evil:

cambs

okgo wrote:

many things...

Just realised,after working out who you are on Strava, that i've been mis-pronouncing your forum name in my head, in a kind of African way. Facepalm.

okgo

Ha, how does it sound in your head?

I was thinking ok-go like the band! Spotify paid me to change my username as the band wanted to use it to make a playlist or something, quite amusing.

cambs

Sort-of gutterally (is that a word?).
Was trying to work out who this guy from Swaziland was who was ripping around Richmond Park. Then the penny dropped.

Yukirin

just got my first kom on a segment I didnt create. Steve just got one of "those" emails!

deadhead1971

I've just created a round up of third party tools for getting more out of your Strava data.
Some are very useful, some are nice to look at, some are a bit more "niche", shall we say.
Let me know if I've missed any good ones!

http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/2012/06/tu ... api-tools/

rick_chasey

Some randommer gave me kudos for a ride I did in and around Cambridge on Monday

Strange thing is, looking on his profile, he's not ridden those roads recently - since he lives in Newmarket.

Weird.

dhope

deadhead1971 wrote:

I've just created a round up of third party tools for getting more out of your Strava data.
Some are very useful, some are nice to look at, some are a bit more "niche", shall we say.
Let me know if I've missed any good ones!

http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/2012/06/tu ... api-tools/

Nicely done Sir, looks awesome 8)

deadhead1971

dhope wrote:

deadhead1971 wrote:

http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/2012/06/tu ... api-tools/

Nicely done Sir, looks awesome 8)

Thanks very much. What constantly amazes me is the genius and generosity of the people who build these things.
I wish I had that much geek power, but wouldn't know where to start.
Glad you liked my little roundup article :-)

jonginge

dhope wrote:

Kudos Rob, that's properly rapid

+1 Yep, rapido

okgo

JonGinge wrote:

dhope wrote:

Kudos Rob, that's properly rapid

+1 Yep, rapido

Would have thought you could go pretty swift round there Jon!

jonginge

okgo wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

dhope wrote:

Kudos Rob, that's properly rapid

+1 Yep, rapido

Would have thought you could go pretty swift round there Jon!

Not nearly that quick!

PB from a couple of years ago was 53:10. No aero gear, mind, and the wheels were stock ksyriums.

These days I tend to do longer runs in the park if I do go. I've turned into a diesel with age I may have to try some flying 1-lappers to see if I can tune the top end a bit. (Not that hopeful)

okgo

Everyone has their strengths, arguably mine is something very much like Richmond Park. You'd be in a different time zone to me up a mountain I reckon.

willy b

dhope wrote:

deadhead1971 wrote:

I've just created a round up of third party tools for getting more out of your Strava data.
Some are very useful, some are nice to look at, some are a bit more "niche", shall we say.
Let me know if I've missed any good ones!

http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/2012/06/tu ... api-tools/

Nicely done Sir, looks awesome 8)

Now that is cool! All of those are awesome!

il_principe

okgo wrote:

Everyone has their strengths, arguably mine is something very much like Richmond Park. You'd be in a different time zone to me up a mountain I reckon.

He's in a different time zone to most in them there mountains!

Chapeau on your time Rob, very very quick. I'm determined to get a 3 lapper in one warm summer evening, just need to wait for the planets to align Would be overjoyed with a 53 or so though.

@Jon In your experience does training for endurance/long rides etc take a little off the top end? Or is it just a case of getting older?

jonginge

Il Principe wrote:

@Jon In your experience does training for endurance/long rides etc take a little off the top end? Or is it just a case of getting older?

I think it's more a case of being very, very lazy

But yes, I think so. Not doing regular interval sessions or hard single laps means you're training your body to go more slowly but for longer. Yesterday was a case in point: 1:54 for six laps but at no point did I go 'fast'. Diesel, diesel, diesel.

May throw in a few efforts on the cols...

Edit: legs are feeling the effort from yesterday too. Getting old

il_principe

JonGinge wrote:

May throw in a few efforts on the cols...

No one'll mind if you don't.

dhope

JonGinge wrote:

1:54 for six laps but at no point did I go 'fast'.

:evil: You'll have to teach me how not to be fast like that :P

okgo

Makes sense to train to your goals as you say Jon. Flying round the park aint gonna help you get up a HC climb!!

But oddly I do go on long hard grinding rides, not sure they really help with two hours road races really, but still. Probably going to get some clip on bars for a long TT I did last year, and will maybe go full aero and such for another 3 laps after July (lots of racing in July, so hope to get fitter) and see if I can get any closer to Steve (and in the back of my mind is Andy Bye's time from when he was about to go pro in 2008). Not sure if previous times have been TT bike etc though.

jonginge

dhope wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

1:54 for six laps but at no point did I go 'fast'.

:evil: You'll have to teach me how not to be fast like that :P

Heh heh, I didn't say it wasn't a decent effort but I don't think I once went above 26mph on the flat. It was just a consistent run.

Anyway, your 3lc time from march says you're not far off the above

deadhead1971

willy b wrote:

dhope wrote:

deadhead1971 wrote:

http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/2012/06/tu ... api-tools/

Nicely done Sir, looks awesome 8)

Now that is cool! All of those are awesome!

Nice one, thanks. There are some great tools in there, and they'll continue to develop, which is rather exciting.
Please share the page via Facebook /twitter to help spread the goodness around.
I've not come across any other webpage listing third party strava tools, so thought I'd make one.
I've already discovered another tool, stravaviewer, which I'll add to the article later.

willy b

Have tweeted, and am following you, it's a good site!