strava climbing challenge

redscouse

received an email from Strava congratulating me on completing the challenge and the winner climbed nearly 500000feet in 5 days...astronaut?

Overall Leaderboard 11,537 / 43,154
1 Tristan Emptage 139,592 m
2 MAUI BIkeParadise 22,936 m
3 Goffredo N. 21,393 m
4 Serge Mirra 19,946 m
5 Dave Pleece 19,090 m

drlodge

I make that 7,700 ft of climbing per day. Not impossible by any means, but it is a lot.

rolf_f

drlodge wrote:

I make that 7,700 ft of climbing per day. Not impossible by any means, but it is a lot.

Try making it again!

drlodge

Sorry, must have missed out one of the digits!

That's about 465,000ft of climbing in total, so nearly 93,000 ft per day. Even on a 1,000 mile ride that would count as "lumpy" :shock:

rolf_f

drlodge wrote:

Sorry, must have missed out one of the digits!

That's about 465,000ft of climbing in total, so nearly 93,000 ft per day. Even on a 1,000 mile ride that would count as "lumpy" :shock:

And whilst 'impossible' is almost always an unsafe word to use, I'm pretty sure 93,000 feet per day is genuinely impossible!

Mikey23

I think that's a strava glitch. The guy has done about 197k ft climbing this year which is similar to what I have done. It happens occasionally and they get corrected pretty quickly

downhill paul

It's actually 457.979003 feet, which would be 91.5958006 feet of climbing a day.

downhill paul

Just out of interest, what do you get if you win a strava challenge? they are free to enter so I doubt they offer a cash prize.

vs

I've 'won' Rapha Rising a couple of times and I got a lovely embroidered badge, just like every one else who completed the challenge.

downhill paul

What exactly do you have to do to complete the challenge? for example, if you enter the May MTS and you only log one ride during the month, you have still entered the challenge and logged a ride, so technically you have completed the challenge. of course I could be wrong. I have never entered any of the challenges on strava before.

marcusjb

drlodge wrote:

Sorry, must have missed out one of the digits!

That's about 465,000ft of climbing in total, so nearly 93,000 ft per day. Even on a 1,000 mile ride that would count as "lumpy" :shock:

Definite glitch. The most I have done in a day is around 7000m, I would have struggled to ride much more!

vs

downhill paul wrote:

What exactly do you have to do to complete the challenge? for example, if you enter the May MTS and you only log one ride during the month, you have still entered the challenge and logged a ride, so technically you have completed the challenge. of course I could be wrong. I have never entered any of the challenges on strava before.

Some challenges have definite goals: for example the Specialized Climbing Challenge was to climb 105,000 feet in 47 days, the Rapha Rising challenges to climb 20,000 odd feet in 8 days. Other 'challenges' such as the May MTS may just be milage logs, and have no defined goal, I don't know as i have never entered any of these.

bernithebiker

vs wrote:

I've 'won' Rapha Rising a couple of times and I got a lovely embroidered badge, just like every one else who completed the challenge.

I got that one too.

Did you know they were going for over £25 on Ebay at one point? (I didn't sell mine...!)