Silly STRAVA Racing

[Andrew_Culture]

I hit a pb on a segment on my second run and now every time I think "yes, I've got to have done it" I'm usually a few seconds off!
I looked at some segments I hit at the weekend and I'm nowhere!!! We're talking 190/300!!! I need to lose weight and get my legs working harder!!!

Or just move to somewhere like Suffolk that only has a handful of Strava users - I'm like a big turd floating in a little potty.

 

[fossyant]

Grabbed a KOM off an arch enemy of a few folk on here . Only a couple of seconds of his other KOM a few hundred yards further on - might be tonights target (one for the lads ). Got a PB on a climb near me, despite hanging back behind another cyclist due to traffic, really opened it up after though - nothing like SCR motivation.

 

[Mo1959]

You guys seem to be blessed with the amount of segments in your area, especially short fast ones. I only seem to have segments that are a mile plus long and uphill All the young fit club riders/racers absolutely fly up them and I am usually almost last on them. I should really create a few of my own and make them private just to test my own fitness.

 

[Andrew_P]

Pfft. didn't know we had some strava amateurs with us.

In other news, i've been watching one segment which I was KOM on a while back. Keep getting pushed down, I think I need to loose some weight and put a better time down!

lol He blew the doors off of the KOM on my commute http://app.strava.com/segments/976360 I think he has taken quite a few from the number two...

What is even worse (for me) is he is in the 45-54 age cat, so I cannot get rid of him out of my results!

 

[fossyant]

You guys seem to be blessed with the amount of segments in your area, especially short fast ones. I only seem to have segments that are a mile plus long and uphill All the young fit club riders/racers absolutely fly up them and I am usually almost last on them. I should really create a few of my own and make them private just to test my own fitness.

I hate the short segments as I'm no sprinter.

Hmm think one of my rides had been flagged by said arch enemy. Got two seconds off last night, but back in january had the exact same time as him, but it's not registered. It is however registered in my times over that segment, last night was actually my second fastest time. Right then, I will go for it tonight given light traffic.

 

[Andrew_P]

I hate the short segments as I'm no sprinter.

Some of my best positions are on slight or full on downhill segements, yet I much prefer viewing my results going uphills!

Not only because it is more in the spirit of "KOM" (not that I have any uphill KOM's) but IMO it is far less affected by wind conditions. I know that my best overall positions and more than likely the people above me were durung a very unususal combo of wind speed and traffic conditions.

 

[Hacienda71]

No KOM's or even top 10's for me today. Chuffed though to get an 11th out of 623 on a 3.5 mile hill I hadn't ridden on Strava before, with an average of 21.1 mph Not bad for a big lad.

 

[DCLane]

KOM after tri training (1k swim, 5k run then bike): http://app.strava.com/activities/49063421#863169283 60.0kph ave. KOM as it's downhill!

 

[400bhp]

Grabbed a KOM off an arch enemy of a few folk on here . Only a couple of seconds of his other KOM a few hundred yards further on - might be tonights target (one for the lads ). Got a PB on a climb near me, despite hanging back behind another cyclist due to traffic, really opened it up after though - nothing like SCR motivation.

I don't see it? Let me guess, your ride has been flagged.

Edit: Just spotted it.

 

[potsy]

Not bad for a big lad.

you're about 9st and that's including the bike

 

[Matthew_T]

I hit a pb on a segment on my second run and now every time I think "yes, I've got to have done it" I'm usually a few seconds off!
I looked at some segments I hit at the weekend and I'm nowhere!!! We're talking 190/300!!! I need to lose weight and get my legs working harder!!!

That happened to me last week.
I was cycling down a dual carraigeway and I had a nice tailwind. I knew there was a segment between roundabouts and I knew that my fastest speed was about 24mph. So I decided to go for it and evded up with an average of just over 25mph.
I got home, plugged the Garmin in and thought that I would have improved my placings. Unfortunately it said that I had done my second fastest time and discovere that my fastest time was 26mph which was more than I thought. http://app.strava.com/activities/48598198#852255389

I need to go out in the evening or early morning and do the segment when there is little traffic. I always end up overtaking someone at the approach to one of the roundabout trying to keep my speed up, and other cars slow me down. Bloody cars! Why are they so slow?

 

[Hacienda71]

you're about 9st and that's including the bike

And the rest. Being a lanky git I hide it well.

 

[Nathjh]

I always end up overtaking someone at the approach to one of the roundabout trying to keep my speed up, and other cars slow me down. Bloody cars! Why are they so slow?

Haha I know that feeling!! My segment has those mini speed bumps on. So cars have to slow down but I don't and they always go so slow!!! I like hitting it in the evenings with less traffic

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

I know i have been quiet on here for the last few weeks but i have buggered with man flu and suffered KOM withdrawal symptoms. So tonights ride would be all revealing.........

35 miles, 8 KOM's and a 2nd place.

I'm back.

 

[zizou]

I can beat that, i got 11 KOM yesterday....5 of those however were all on one climb (seems to have been a glitch with stravas auto segments in that a few people who have riden up the hill have had a segment created automatically but they've all started from different bits). Suppose the right thing to do would be to flag the segments