Strava.com - Put your money where your mouth is

willy b

Gutted! Lost my Embankment West KOM. By a fair bit too!
http://app.strava.com/segments/1083160

dhope

willy b wrote:

Gutted! Lost my Embankment West KOM. By a fair bit too!
http://app.strava.com/segments/1083160

Absolutely smashed. Chapeau to the guy that got that. Profile says he rides a SS, getting up to 42mph seems maybe a bit of phone GPS coming into play. Still, rapid.

willy b

dhope wrote:

willy b wrote:

Gutted! Lost my Embankment West KOM. By a fair bit too!
http://app.strava.com/segments/1083160

Absolutely smashed. Chapeau to the guy that got that. Profile says he rides a SS, getting up to 42mph seems maybe a bit of phone GPS coming into play. Still, rapid.

I really wanted it to be a glitch, but looking at teh rest of teh ride, and teh times he has set along segments I think it might be legit! :shock: Kudos indeed, extra effort now required

vermin

"Uh oh! You just lost your KOM on SCR Millbank Sprint - South to Tom Robinson by 1 second."

WHO? WHAT? WTF!!!

*Dusts down bicycle...


Edit: Eh? He's gone. What happened there?

pastryboy

Maybe he uploaded then deleted it so he could SNAP it. I always end up doing that with longer rides as something usually gets missed.

Tom_R

Well that's probably the first and last time my Strava antics will be noticed (and prompt me to stop lurking). Sadly I trust the Cateye maxing out at 29.8mph a little more than the iPhone. A shame, as measured accurately it would have been a PB by some way.

jonginge

Aha! Welcome, Tom

vermin

Tom_R wrote:

Well that's probably the first and last time my Strava antics will be noticed (and prompt me to stop lurking). Sadly I trust the Cateye maxing out at 29.8mph a little more than the iPhone. A shame, as measured accurately it would have been a PB by some way.

Ha! Well, you got my attention! Nice effort.

Paul E

At last some payback for the miles, a PR on Blackheath Hill, 3 secs quicker and didn't feel like throwing up as I did the last time I did it which was max effort but this time I think I could have gone another second quicker, maybe more with fresh legs

bigmat

Ooh, Balham Hill KOM gone

I'm a bit dubious, reckon an engine may have been involved...

notsoblue

Whenever I see WillyB's routes I always chuckle to myself. I wonder if he's doing the knowledge while commuting?

willy b

notsoblue wrote:

Whenever I see WillyB's routes I always chuckle to myself. I wonder if he's doing the knowledge while commuting?

Not as bad as they used to be tbh. I admit, they are certainly less than direct though!

jds_1981

BigMat wrote:

Ooh, Balham Hill KOM gone

I'm a bit dubious, reckon an engine may have been involved...

Think it's a bike, just the gps signal hasn't locked well, he spends a lot of time near the start cycling through houses.

whitebait01

Some chap nicked my KOM on a segment I created near my parents' house back in Herts, only rode it the once before and the KOM stood for months 'til a few weeks ago when he beat it by two seconds. Fortuitously I've just moved back with 'em for a couple of weeks so thought I'd nip into town and see if I could beat him...

http://app.strava.com/segments/1206304

Paul E

|If I don't get some PR's from that ride this morning I will eat my garmin

pastryboy

I've managed to get myself two followers - I definitely don't know them in real life. Am I supposed to to acknowledge them or follow them back or something? Not sure why they want to follow me to be honest :?

willy b

Ah, another KOM taken...
http://app.strava.com/segments/1702386

What makes it worse is that it's up in Derbyshire, and i'll not be up there for a good month! It's an impressive time hough i'll give him that!

aeon

ummed and ahhed about doing a lap of RP this morning as i'm still coughing up all kinds of unpleasantness. but in the end felt good so decided to have a go, super glad i did... not sub, but bang on 20:00!

http://app.strava.com/rides/18246163#332613317

backed it up with a stopwatch too so this time i know it's genuine. really stoked given that i'm on the cast-iron hybrid and this was only my third attempt at a full lap. boom!

willy b

Nice work Aeon, I still need to get down to RP for a few laps, interested to see how I do.

Hit a section quite hard on Friday, and was pleased to see I bagged the KOM http://app.strava.com/segments/907350

aeon

thanks! yeah, you should... it's just a really pleasing place to be, especially early in the morning before rush hour.

three lap challenge is where it's at, although a sub-60 minute run seems an unimaginable stretch to me at the moment.

willy b

Think i'll give it a shot one day this week, although first time isn't going to be quick, i'll probably get lost

willy b

Strava Art
http://blog.strava.com/stravart-5068/

They're seriously cool!

willy b

Is Strava playing up for anybody else? Can locate my Garmin, yet I can see it on the computer. Also can't see any maps on the dashboard? Can't do a manual upload from the computer either?

roger_merriman

willy b wrote:

Is Strava playing up for anybody else? Can locate my Garmin, yet I can see it on the computer. Also can't see any maps on the dashboard? Can't do a manual upload from the computer either?

it looks fine haven't uploaded anything but then I'm on holiday so mostly off the bike.

vermin

willy b wrote:

Is Strava playing up for anybody else? Can locate my Garmin, yet I can see it on the computer. Also can't see any maps on the dashboard? Can't do a manual upload from the computer either?

It keeps knocking me down the leader-boards. Something is very wrong.

il_principe

Whoop! Managed a 3Lap challenge in 52:44 this morning, despite traffic, post holiday malaise and not setting out to make an attempt. Chuffed doesn't even begin to cover it. Someway off the proper rapid guys, but a PB by around 2 mins I think.

willy b

Great effort. I tried to give you Kudos but couldn't get Strava to work :roll:

il_principe

Yep Strava is being a little twitchy today.

il_principe

edited for fail

rick_chasey

As is your submit button .