Strava markers anyone ?

Davebo777

Hi,
Anyone know how to flag a point or drop a marker on a Strava route please ?

trying to flag a KOM point on a ride.

Thanks.

cgfw201

Davebo777 wrote:

Hi,
Anyone know how to flag a point or drop a marker on a Strava route please ?

trying to flag a KOM point on a ride.

Thanks.

None of the above makes any sense.

I think what you want is a Garmin 520 and use the live segments which tells you precisely when a segment starts & ends and tracks your progress vs the KOM/your PR/your target along the way.

Or if you mean flag a ride as in flagging a ride on Strava, that's something totally different.

term1te

The Col de la Croix, depuis St-Ursanne, https://www.strava.com/segments/7427784, has an official looking road sign marking the start of the Strava segment, metal, attached to a sign post. A couple of other segments around here have nice white lines painted on the road to mark the start and finish, they don't look so official.

Rodrego Hernandez

roykfahey wrote:

I have been asked to put this here as I think it would be a really good idea to have distance markers on the strava app bit obviously currently has the blue distance markers at the bottom but having them on the map would be good too

What does this mean?

kingstongraham

cgfw201 wrote:

Davebo777 wrote:

Hi,
Anyone know how to flag a point or drop a marker on a Strava route please ?

trying to flag a KOM point on a ride.

Thanks.

None of the above makes any sense.

I think what you want is a Garmin 520 and use the live segments which tells you precisely when a segment starts & ends and tracks your progress vs the KOM/your PR/your target along the way.

Or if you mean flag a ride as in flagging a ride on Strava, that's something totally different.

You meant to say "I don't know".

The strava curated routes have flags/points of interest on them: https://www.strava.com/local/uk/london/ ... routes/120

I don't see a way of adding them on user created routes. There isn't a button for it. Sorry. I don't know either.

joe2008

There is no 'official' start and end point to any Strava segment.

There was a site, now offline, which showed how different riders rode different distances for the same segment, depending upon how their GPS picked up the GPS points.

People can ride quicker than the KOM, but obviously if they ride further, they can end up lower on the Strava leaderboard.

http://blog.veloviewer.com/alternative-leaderboard

dinyull

Will totally depend on where the satellite picks you up too.

I've been given times for segments I haven't ridden on because the satellite tracking was a little out.

ben@31

KingstonGraham wrote:

You meant to say "I don't know".

The strava curated routes have flags/points of interest on them: https://www.strava.com/local/uk/london/ ... routes/120

I don't see a way of adding them on user created routes. There isn't a button for it. Sorry. I don't know either.

cgfw201 is actually correct in what he's saying (but I also don't know if it answers the OPs question ?).... A Garmin 520 will display when a seg starts, how you're doing on it and where the seg finishes. However you have to load the segs from your laptop onto the Garmin 520 before the ride, so its not entirely live. If you took a different route home it won't recognise new segs you haven't pre-loaded before the ride.
Interestingly this is the least used feature on my 520 and I stopped using this feature after a week, as when you get on the seg it automatically changes the display I want to the map I dont want to see and the bottom line is, it still doesnt make me cycle any faster anyway !! I still come 1000th place on the seg leaderboard. But if this answers the OP's question, You can follow your progress along the seg on the map screen and see where you are in relation to the start, finish and the time your trying to beat along with a distance-to-go countdown.
However without a 520, when a seg was created by an honest respectable sportsman who isn't trying to hide things, you can guess where most segs will obviously start and finish. For example... road junctions, I know quite a few segs that finish at 30mph signs entering villages or starting at the bottom of every hill in the world and finishing at their summit.

Davebo777

Sorry, I guess I wasn't very clear in my OP.

What I'm trying to do is work out the highest point in the routes I've created (and will follow using a Garmin Edge Touring).

That way when I reach the top ahead of my buddy I will know I am King of that 'Mountain'.

So I am not looking to try and beat a time up a particular Strava segment just spot the highest point on the routes I've created. If there's a way to do it in Garmin Connect or some other tool I'd be grateful for any advice.

Thanks for the replies so far.

DBo.

Brakeless

Just put it on the profile screen and you'll see the top of climbs.