strava anomaly

Pumpkin Positive

Here is a strava segment near me called 'got lost' which records a 100m section of road on which apparently I've attained speeds of 114.6kph. They guys at the top of the table are hitting speeds of 343.8kph like this guy - http://app.strava.com/rides/13784466#253232901

Is there something in the water in Devon that makes us ride so fast? Should Dave Brailsford be sending a talent scout out to this part of the world? Or is a more mundane software glitch to blame?

thescouselander

This happens quite a lot when you lose GPS lock. There's a tunnel round here where I regularly reach speeds approaching 500 mph, apparently.

dw300

If you're using a phone based app, turn your phone to flight mode or aeroplane mode, that way it'll just record GPS data. This should give you better results and better battery life.

gary.hounsome

I tried flight mode on Friday on my iPhone 4S but it didnt record any data,only the start and finish whilst it was on? I use cyclemeter.

thegreatdivide

Noticed some weird/dodgy stuff this eve.

On a nice climb near me I managed to get a good second place today. Then I checked over the ride this even and saw three guys had dropped me down the charts. But it looks very strange. There are two versions of the climb - a shorter one and a comple one.

Look at the guy in second place on the full climb - he did it in 6:05

http://app.strava.com/rides/21719284#388097654

Yet on the shorter version he's in 10th place at 6:37

http://app.strava.com/rides/21719284#388097645

How does that work?

ShutUpLegs

Because on the shorter steeper version he stopped pedalling as the end point was further over the peak of the hill. Performance data looks a bit odd but it looks like he did a bit of circling/ wairting then carried on.