the results are in. I've been doing too many steady rides
it's always a trade off between doing the boring 20 mile loop full on to show how fast you are or doing the more meaningful 70 mile ride at a more conservative pace... I always prefer the latter
Judging by twitter they had some sort of outage in their segment matching service as a lot of users experienced it on Sunday. I don't usually care so much about the segments but I had pressed on up Box Hill that day and was eager to know the time as I hadn't hit lap button on the Garmin.
local lad to me who i don't know but follow on Strava but he just goes out trying his best on certain segments just to get the KOM and makes up his own little routes on roads so he can get the KOM
each to their own I say. with wintry conditions you don't generally go quicker. I'm so lazy nowadays, that I won't attack a hill unless there is a tailwind....
I think segments are useful but as Ugo says these days it's more for tracking individual fitness or a personal challenge rather than getting a KOM. I mean any worthwhile KOM is so tough these days that to get it you'd have to be good enough that you really should have bigger fish to fry than be bothered about them. Last time I went for one I got in behind a lorry (by accident rather than design) on the A6 travelling about 35mph for a few miles between two towns - still ended up 4th - I guess the top 3 were behind a faster lorry
... travelling about 35mph for a few miles between two towns - still ended up 4th - I guess the top 3 were behind a faster lorry
I went for a ride the other day and at the end picked up the car from where it had been abandoned at a party the night before and drove home. Did the old forget-to-end-strava thing. Still didn't get any KOMs.
Seriously, Strava is what it is, and I can't see why anyone gets uptight about it. As a non-competitive cyclist who nonetheless wants to get fitter - and stay as fit as possible as I get older and older - I recognise that high intensity intervals are the way to go, and pushing it on strava segments means I can do that in a casual, fun and motivating way - certainly more enjoyable than dreary turbo sessions. Of course it's probably not optimum training, and proves absolutely nothing about how "fast" I am relative to anyone else, but it motivates me and passes the time on my way to work.
PS long way to work this morning, 41km, 30 segments, 6 PRs looking forward to the return, when I'm not expecting a lot more into a force 8 headwind...
Speaking of segments... I once created one roughly 22 km long, as part of my BRUM 200 Audax... the chances of anyone taking the same set of roads before the Audax would be quite slim, I thought... I don't think I ever got close to the top 10...
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Seriously, Strava is what it is, and I can't see why anyone gets uptight about it.
As a non-competitive cyclist who nonetheless wants to get fitter - and stay as fit as possible as I get older and older - I recognise that high intensity intervals are the way to go, and pushing it on strava segments means I can do that in a casual, fun and motivating way - certainly more enjoyable than dreary turbo sessions. Of course it's probably not optimum training, and proves absolutely nothing about how "fast" I am relative to anyone else, but it motivates me and passes the time on my way to work.
PS long way to work this morning, 41km, 30 segments, 6 PRs
looking forward to the return, when I'm not expecting a lot more into a force 8 headwind...
I don't think I ever got close to the top 10...
Still, personal 2nd place* isn't bad
*out of 2