Strava - narcissistic?
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I dont know anyone who's truly narcissistic .But I do know an obsessive stalker in the same group / club.
If I do 100 miles then for some bizarre reason he then goes out and does 103 miles. If I do 100km the week after he then does 105 km. Always after, never before.
He goes out of his way to do this, especially when he tries to beat my ascent. Considering he lives in the flattest part of the UK !
Look, I do not give a fuck how far you cycle or if its more than what I've done this week. I really don't care. Theres no reason why I should ? I only use Strava just to log my own rides.
Dearest Stalker, I could have gone out and cycled today if I wanted to... adding the 18 miles that I would have needed to beat you this week, but Im not interested.
But what does bother me is your weird obsession with always looking at what Ive done and then planning your own life around me. This freaks me out, its not normal."The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby0 -
Really haha. Thats brilliant. Who is it?0
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@ben31 do your ride, mark it private until next week then mark it public... or upload it a week late.
He'll get over it ;-)0 -
So, I'm normally in the top half on Strava segments round here (Leighton Buzzard/Tring/Aylesbury). Sometimes I'm in the top 20%, but on Friday I got a 8th overall. When I looked at the segment it was a dirt track alongside a golf course and had 40 results
Anyway, of course, on my ride today I went for it and bagged the least contested KOM in the Home Counties!
I justify my narcissism by stating quite confidently that I will never get a KOM on any other segment ever.
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My only KOM at the moment is on the one-minute slight hill approaching the traffic lights right beside where I live. About 500 results, and I'm sure most of them were just people passing through... Still, I knew I could put out x watts for 1 minute, so it was worth having just so I can be reminded of it every time I go for a newspaper.. ;-) I used to have another one on a busy dual carriageway in Finland that someone told me afterwards it's illegal to ride bicycles on. That's gone now though.. I'm far more proud of 9th place in my age group on a famous local climb. 0
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ben@31 wrote:I dont know anyone who's truly narcissistic .But I do know an obsessive stalker in the same group / club.
If I do 100 miles then for some bizarre reason he then goes out and does 103 miles. If I do 100km the week after he then does 105 km. Always after, never before.
He goes out of his way to do this, especially when he tries to beat my ascent. Considering he lives in the flattest part of the UK !
Look, I do not give a fark how far you cycle or if its more than what I've done this week. I really don't care. Theres no reason why I should ? I only use Strava just to log my own rides.
Dearest Stalker, I could have gone out and cycled today if I wanted to... adding the 18 miles that I would have needed to beat you this week, but Im not interested.
But what does bother me is your weird obsession with always looking at what Ive done and then planning your own life around me. This freaks me out, its not normal.
I have experienced something like this. It's a weird way to live.0 -
Maybe you're his training plan. He can't be bothered to work out his own so he just thinks "that bloke looks like he knows what he's doing, I'll just do whatever he does". That's the least creepy of many alternatives, however.. :-)ben@31 wrote:I dont know anyone who's truly narcissistic .But I do know an obsessive stalker in the same group / club.
If I do 100 miles then for some bizarre reason he then goes out and does 103 miles. If I do 100km the week after he then does 105 km. Always after, never before.
He goes out of his way to do this, especially when he tries to beat my ascent. Considering he lives in the flattest part of the UK !
Look, I do not give a fark how far you cycle or if its more than what I've done this week. I really don't care. Theres no reason why I should ? I only use Strava just to log my own rides.
Dearest Stalker, I could have gone out and cycled today if I wanted to... adding the 18 miles that I would have needed to beat you this week, but Im not interested.
But what does bother me is your weird obsession with always looking at what Ive done and then planning your own life around me. This freaks me out, its not normal.0 -
neeb wrote:He can't be bothered to work out his own so he just thinks "that bloke looks like he knows what he's doing, I'll just do whatever he does". That's the least creepy of many alternatives, however.. :-)
its fcuking genius is what it is ...... I might start doing the same0 -
Never thought of it that way, that I'm motivating him. Maybe it's a complement that I'm his goal"The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby0
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neeb wrote:
Maybe you're his training plan. He can't be bothered to work out his own so he just thinks "that bloke looks like he knows what he's doing, I'll just do whatever he does". That's the least creepy of many alternatives, however.. :-)ben@31 wrote:I dont know anyone who's truly narcissistic .But I do know an obsessive stalker in the same group / club.
If I do 100 miles then for some bizarre reason he then goes out and does 103 miles. If I do 100km the week after he then does 105 km. Always after, never before.
He goes out of his way to do this, especially when he tries to beat my ascent. Considering he lives in the flattest part of the UK !
Look, I do not give a fark how far you cycle or if its more than what I've done this week. I really don't care. Theres no reason why I should ? I only use Strava just to log my own rides.
Dearest Stalker, I could have gone out and cycled today if I wanted to... adding the 18 miles that I would have needed to beat you this week, but Im not interested.
But what does bother me is your weird obsession with always looking at what Ive done and then planning your own life around me. This freaks me out, its not normal.
I say wait until the last couple of hours when Strava changes over the week. Then one time, go out and top him back at the last hours for shits and giggles. It'll burn him up real good if he's as much a nutter as he seems to be.
If you're ok with "faking it" just to troll him, add a manual entry at 1 minute prior to midnight on the week change. Make sure you top his by only 1 km or 1 meter climbed.0 -
I deleted my Strava account a few months ago after two local KOMs just disappeared. I don't mean someone took them, I mean the very segments just disappeared.
To add to my disdain, another KOM was equalled by the guy I took it from (former club mate) by 1 sec in the first place. I then discovered that he had shaved that second off his original time but hadn't actually ridden the segment since then - so how did he make it magically quicker...?
Too many Strava users living their lives by it. I know a couple of guys who stop their Garmins well before they finish the ride because they know the town traffic will erode at least 0.5mph off their average speed and they don't want other Strava users thinking they rode slower than they really did.0 -
neeb wrote:My only KOM at the moment is on the one-minute slight hill approaching the traffic lights right beside where I live. About 500 results, and I'm sure most of them were just people passing through... Still, I knew I could put out x watts for 1 minute, so it was worth having just so I can be reminded of it every time I go for a newspaper.. ;-) I used to have another one on a busy dual carriageway in Finland that someone told me afterwards it's illegal to ride bicycles on. That's gone now though.. I'm far more proud of 9th place in my age group on a famous local climb.
Same here. A pair on nearly uncontested places.
But.......I wouldn't hold that against someone if the achievement came at a very high avg wattage. If only 50 people have tried, but you got the best with 450 or 500 watts for a minute.........who cares.
Just like an internet forum. Have fun but don't be bothered by the trolls.0 -
Stravaspergics, they make me laugh, they do.0
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GavH wrote:I deleted my Strava account a few months ago after two local KOMs just disappeared. I don't mean someone took them, I mean the very segments just disappeared.
To add to my disdain, another KOM was equalled by the guy I took it from (former club mate) by 1 sec in the first place. I then discovered that he had shaved that second off his original time but hadn't actually ridden the segment since then - so how did he make it magically quicker...?
Too many Strava users living their lives by it. I know a couple of guys who stop their Garmins well before they finish the ride because they know the town traffic will erode at least 0.5mph off their average speed and they don't want other Strava users thinking they rode slower than they really did.
Little confused. You deleted Strava purely because a few KOM vanished. Then you say too many Strava users live their lives by it? Do you not see the irony in that?0 -
twist83 wrote:GavH wrote:Little confused. You deleted Strava purely because a few KOM vanished. Then you say too many Strava users live their lives by it? Do you not see the irony in that?
it did make me smirk
who is worse, the child that cant win and deleting his segment so no one else can ..... of the person who now cant play the other persons game so deletes the entire app
People just don't grow up do they, adults have exactly the same emotional response as children, but children at least have the excuse that they don't yet have the social skills to cope with the overwhelming emotion of not being able to always win, or be allowed to play a game0 -
GavH wrote:I deleted my Strava account a few months ago after two local KOMs just disappeared. I don't mean someone took them, I mean the very segments just disappeared.
You do realise you could have simply re-created the segments yourself on the webpage version of Strava, just as any Strava users can? ================
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fat daddy wrote:twist83 wrote:GavH wrote:Little confused. You deleted Strava purely because a few KOM vanished. Then you say too many Strava users live their lives by it? Do you not see the irony in that?
it did make me smirk
who is worse, the child that cant win and deleting his segment so no one else can ..... of the person who now cant play the other persons game so deletes the entire app
People just don't grow up do they, adults have exactly the same emotional response as children, but children at least have the excuse that they don't yet have the social skills to cope with the overwhelming emotion of not being able to always win, or be allowed to play a game
Think that's probably unfair to women. It's a macho thing, isn't it?
Not long back I caught up to a middle age bloke up a local "wall", had been reeling him in easily over the last mile or 2. 1/3 way up I passed him, said morning and muttered something about how mad we must be torturing ourselves....only for him to totally blank me and engage "hyper gear".
I caught back upto him at the top as he was wobbling about the road coughing, spluttering and breathing through his ar$e.0 -
Well this thread is depressing.0
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twist83 wrote:Little confused. You deleted Strava purely because a few KOM vanished. Then you say too many Strava users live their lives by it? Do you not see the irony in that?
I can see why you're confused. My point was that the utility of Strava (to me) was being eroded by things like KOMs just vanishing. As for recreating the KOMs, they really didn't mean that much to me. Nor did Strava if things like KOMs can just vanish without warning.0 -
'Live segments' are making life fun, on the routes I ride at the moment. Stravankers are fairly easy to spot, anyway. They are even easier to spot, with the advent of 'live segments'. It's fun to move off, just as a segment chaser comes along, then watch them get all incandescent because they missed a KOM.0
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GavH wrote:twist83 wrote:Little confused. You deleted Strava purely because a few KOM vanished. Then you say too many Strava users live their lives by it? Do you not see the irony in that?
I can see why you're confused. My point was that the utility of Strava (to me) was being eroded by things like KOMs just vanishing. As for recreating the KOMs, they really didn't mean that much to me. Nor did Strava if things like KOMs can just vanish without warning.
But, but, but... just recreate the segment and the utility returns.0
