Strava Overload
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Having recently ridden the Tumble and uploading the ride to Strava I was amazed to find that there are at least 13 segments in a climb that is 3 miles long. The hill does have two / three obvious sections but how people manage to make so many in such a short length is beyond me. Has anyone come across a more congested section of road on Strava? I suspect there'll be some inner city ones where there is a lot of overlap!
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I probably have more hidden segments than actual segments now. I just keep the longest one and hide the rest along with any down hill oneshttp://app.strava.com/athletes/686217
Come on! You call this a storm? Blow, you son of a bitch! Blow! It's time for a showdown! You and me! I'm right here! Come and get me!0 -
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Considering over 1500 have cycled all the way around Loch Rannoch and posted the data on Strava, nothing would surprise me anymore. But there are only two segments and the shorter one is 19km :-)0
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hatch87 wrote:I probably have more hidden segments than actual segments now. I just keep the longest one and hide the rest along with any down hill ones
I never used to make use of the hidden segment feature but I too experience lots of pointless segments in my area too. I've now started hiding lots of segments.
I once joked to some people that I might create lots of segments around the area because if I didn't then eventually someone else would and they might give them stupid names or poor start and end point, or they'd be created by people with smart phones and have more tacking. Obviously I didn't do this but ultimately ever bit of road between two junctions will have a segment.0 -
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Yep I quit using it quite a while ago now. Novelty wore of pretty quick, and yeah all these segments on box hill etc make the thing a mess.0
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Strava does let you know when you are creating a segment that there is already one just like on the same bit of road and do you want to proceed. Should be a bit of a clue even for the thickest...0
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Strava badly needs editors, or moderators, who can check out over-subscribed sections, distil them into one or maybe two segments, and lock them. They seem to be able to disable "hazardous" ones easily enough.
Seeing as how the whole thing is crowd-sourced, maybe the hive-mind will sort it out eventually.0 -
Come to France. I can take you on glorious routes of 100km where you won't even do ONE segment!!0
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wheezee wrote:Strava badly needs editors, or moderators, who can check out over-subscribed sections, distil them into one or maybe two segments, and lock them. They seem to be able to disable "hazardous" ones easily enough.
Seeing as how the whole thing is crowd-sourced, maybe the hive-mind will sort it out eventually.
There is an option for you to hide any segments that you are not interested in. So you can be your own moderator
Totally agree with the comments about Box Hill BTW. (except the ludicrous one by Overlord2)"You really think you can burn off sugar with exercise?" downhill paul0 -
Mikey23 wrote:Strava does let you know when you are creating a segment that there is already one just like on the same bit of road and do you want to proceed. Should be a bit of a clue even for the thickest...wheezee wrote:Strava badly needs editors, or moderators, who can check out over-subscribed sections, distil them into one or maybe two segments, and lock them. They seem to be able to disable "hazardous" ones easily enough.0
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adr82 wrote:wheezee wrote:Strava badly needs editors, or moderators, who can check out over-subscribed sections, distil them into one or maybe two segments, and lock them. They seem to be able to disable "hazardous" ones easily enough.
Perhaps they could charge a small subscription fee to help cover the additional costs
Or.....Charlie Potatoes wrote:There is an option for you to hide any segments that you are not interested in. So you can be your own moderator"You really think you can burn off sugar with exercise?" downhill paul0 -
Charlie Potatoes wrote:There is an option for you to hide any segments that you are not interested in. So you can be your own moderator
Why should I have to click "hide" 60 times because some people lose all self-control when creating segments? They should at least allow you to comment on segments, so I could at least ask people wtf they were thinking creating a 100 yard segment that includes two sets of lights and a blind corner.
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adr82 wrote:Charlie Potatoes wrote:There is an option for you to hide any segments that you are not interested in. So you can be your own moderator
Why should I have to click "hide" 60 times because some people lose all self-control when creating segments?
It is well OTT on some rides but you only need to hide them once.
Just think about how difficult it would be for someone to administer and how many people would be whinging that their segment had been pulled and not others."You really think you can burn off sugar with exercise?" downhill paul0 -
Bet they all jump red lights too...0
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Maybe they could have a 'rate segment' option that you can use once you've ridden it. If it gets below a certain figure it gets wiped.0
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What Starava needs is a filter that will hide all segments less than x meters and a gradient of less than x %
Easy!
In fact I might suggest it to them0 -
I love the uphill segments where someone will turn up a little farm track near the top for 50m, just to make sure noone ever gets their KOM!!
We should encourage CSH's* to go out and squash their KOM off the map!
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Pross wrote:Having recently ridden the Tumble and uploading the ride to Strava I was amazed to find that there are at least 13 segments in a climb that is 3 miles long. The hill does have two / three obvious sections but how people manage to make so many in such a short length is beyond me. Has anyone come across a more congested section of road on Strava? I suspect there'll be some inner city ones where there is a lot of overlap!
The Tumble on the A48? If you're riding that, it's nowhere near 3 miles long0 -
No, The Tumble AKA The Keepers / The Blorenge from Govilon to Blaenavon, one of the best known climbs in UK cycle racing and included in the original 100 Greatest Climbs book. It's 2.9 miles from the point usually marked as the start but I always think of he start being just above the canal bridge which makes it slightly shorter.
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Pross wrote:No, The Tumble AKA The Keepers / The Blorenge from Govilon to Blaenavon, one of the best known climbs in UK cycle racing and included in the original 100 Greatest Climbs book. It's 2.9 miles from the point usually marked as the start but I always think of he start being just above the canal bridge which makes it slightly shorter.
http://www.strava.com/segments/4743916
It's certainly where the climb starts rather than just gaining height, strava does auto make some segments quite a few MTB ones on the sides of the Blorange and Gilwern Hill0 -
With some parts on things like Box Hill, they can be ana advantage, I keep it down to 5 segments, the 3 seperate zigzags, the zig zag climb and the 2.2k climb.
That way i can see if i've improved and where i've improved. I counted up the blocked segments i had and they number over 200 just for the surrey hills. it is fairly ridiculous.0 -
I've never ridden in London or the south east but I have a few friends who ride down there and their rides are always littered with 100s of pointless segments.
Also there needs to be a filter between road segments and mtb.0 -
Pross wrote:Maybe they could have a 'rate segment' option that you can use once you've ridden it. If it gets below a certain figure it gets wiped.
Sometimes I can understand an overlap in segments - several climbs around me are used for club hill climbs - they don't start at the bottom and don't finish at the top - probably because the layby/carpark they use are slightly into the climb - no prob ...
Then there's a segment on my ride home - for 2 years it's been <place> climb ... it started at the bottom of the climb and finished at the summit - it's a smooth hill - ramps up slowly and then flattens out at the top ..
so some smart alec comes along and decides to create <place> climb (uphill part) starting at the same place but finishing 0.2miles short of the full segment ... the full segment was only 0.5miles to start with!
Anyway - I'm pleased that my best time up it is faster than Joanna Rowsell's best time ... by 24 seconds! But I bust a gut to get up it and she was probably on a cool down part ...Still - it's the only way I'm likely to be "faster" than a pro!
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philbar72 wrote:With some parts on things like Box Hill, they can be ana advantage, I keep it down to 5 segments, the 3 seperate zigzags, the zig zag climb and the 2.2k climb.
That way i can see if i've improved and where i've improved. I counted up the blocked segments i had and they number over 200 just for the surrey hills. it is fairly ridiculous.0 -
adr82 wrote:Mikey23 wrote:Strava does let you know when you are creating a segment that there is already one just like on the same bit of road and do you want to proceed. Should be a bit of a clue even for the thickest...
I live in the middle of nowhere and have made quite a few short segments up steep slopes that take anything from 20 seconds to three minutes to get up. Why? Because Strava is for measuring yourself against your previous efforts.
I do agree that in many places there is an excess of segments with near identical start/end points, but in some cases there are perfectly valid reasons. I've created a new version of a couple of segments because they have dodgy endpoints (one ended just past a very narrow gate on a cycle path for instance).0 -
adr82 wrote:philbar72 wrote:With some parts on things like Box Hill, they can be ana advantage, I keep it down to 5 segments, the 3 seperate zigzags, the zig zag climb and the 2.2k climb.
That way i can see if i've improved and where i've improved. I counted up the blocked segments i had and they number over 200 just for the surrey hills. it is fairly ridiculous.0 -
Emphursis wrote:I live in the middle of nowhere and have made quite a few short segments up steep slopes that take anything from 20 seconds to three minutes to get up. Why? Because Strava is for measuring yourself against your previous efforts.Emphursis wrote:I do agree that in many places there is an excess of segments with near identical start/end points, but in some cases there are perfectly valid reasons. I've created a new version of a couple of segments because they have dodgy endpoints (one ended just past a very narrow gate on a cycle path for instance).
I've noticed sometimes during the creation of a segment on Strava, being very careful with the start/end points that the resulting segment has different start/end points - perhaps it lines up with the nearest GPS record of that ride... ?0 -
Hillingdon Cycle Circuit is another place with a ridiculous number of segments. Its an 0.9 of a mile loop.0