Strava Virgin

nax-ian

Tryin to get to grips with this Strava thing, but where I live no one to swap notes with.
Do you have to start an stop manually for each segment that is already logged in your specific area? Or does the gps function kinda lock on for you to the segment your about to ride? Like if you don't press "end ride" when you've finished the segment, are you still being timed?

Turns out there's a coupla norwegian tourists been TT 'ing some of my local climbs, so gotta show 'em who' s boss!!
Cheers

Gizmo_

No need to stop-start; that would defeat the object. Just press go, it'll track your whole ride (until you run out of battery...) and at the end you'll see which segments you went along.

Sometimes it won't pick up that you did one. This will invariably be on a day when you were smashing all records and would have been KOM. Sometimes the GPS trace will show that you went into a field for 100m. Almost always your top speed will be barely credible. All of these things are normal

slowbike

One track recorded was 10m off the road - before coming back into sync with the map a few miles up the road - this meant that the segment wasn't met ..

nax-ian

@ gizmo, so will it select and single? separate out the already mapped segments, say if I try an do 2 or 3 in the same ride?

slowbike

You just ride - recording your track with GPS or Phone - after your ride you can upload your track to Strava and it will work out what segments you've ridden...
You can then add some yourself if there are none on a particular area you want to track.

Gizmo_

Nax-ian wrote:

@ gizmo, so will it select and single? separate out the already mapped segments, say if I try an do 2 or 3 in the same ride?

Yes, exactly. Take this for example, my usual commute: http://app.strava.com/rides/14833841

I know where segments are (they show up as green-shaded on the trace), so if I'm in the mood I'll give it some welly on those sections.

nax-ian

Cheers fellas. gonna go an destroy those times, as soon as this bloody wind goes!!

Neil McC

Gizmo_ wrote:

Nax-ian wrote:

@ gizmo, so will it select and single? separate out the already mapped segments, say if I try an do 2 or 3 in the same ride?

Yes, exactly. Take this for example, my usual commute: http://app.strava.com/rides/14833841

I know where segments are (they show up as green-shaded on the trace), so if I'm in the mood I'll give it some welly on those sections.

Ah, you ride quite a few of the same segments as me!

Gizmo_

Neil McC wrote:

Ah, you ride quite a few of the same segments as me!

But probably slower.

Cleat Eastwood

Nax-ian wrote:

Cheers fellas. gonna go an destroy those times, as soon as this bloody wind goes!!

haha spoken like a true noob -to get KOM,s the wind is your friend.

ilm_zero7

Gizmo_ wrote:

Neil McC wrote:

Ah, you ride quite a few of the same segments as me!

But probably slower.

LOL! You end up competing with people you have never met, and who you never knew you were racing them., and every so often you get an email saying "Damonthedarkdestroyer" has just taken your KOM on a bit of road you did. 2 years ago.


It does change your riding though, and as long as segments are safely placed, not across junctions and traffic lights, I think it motivates to improve the quality of your everyday rides...

Now what we are working on is a Garmin that auto magically picks up your Strava start and finishes points live, like a virtual partner when you are out.

lakeland

I'd quite like to see a dedicated Strava GPS device, that would be sweet!

Ber Nard

Gizmo_ wrote:

Almost always your top speed will be barely credible.

So, are you saying I probably didn't hit 14,331.2 mph on my ride on Saturday?

Rob

southdownswolf

Ber Nard wrote:

Gizmo_ wrote:

Almost always your top speed will be barely credible.

So, are you saying I probably didn't hit 14,331.2 mph on my ride on Saturday?

Rob

not unless you were getting a tow from this...