Silly STRAVA Racing

[Andrew_P]

Is it worth the sub for the features? With Endomondo to go pro was only a pound or two but Strava is an ongoing commitment rather than a one off fee, so I am a tad more reticent about signing up.

I paid for one year and then deleted my card info to stop a auto renew. Not surely really on its benefits. I cannot recall what I had before. I quite like the age related leaderboard as it takes out the TT'ers. Cannot remember if the Wattage and Suffer Score were in the free one. Suffer score is quite indicative of the ride, no account for wind direction but monitors HR zones. Pretty sure I will not renew it.

 

[Hacienda71]

Cheers for that Loco.
You don't get the suffer scores in the free one but you do get the wattage estimation although I take it with a pinch of salt. I will have a think about it before I subscribe, the age related stuff is tempting though.

 

[Andrew_P]

Suffer Score

 

[400bhp]

I like the zone summary & could prove useful - not sure they have that on garmin connect?

 

[400bhp]

Strava racing is weird, although I can see the attraction. I don't have GPS, so can't set any times. However, one of my local mountain climbs has been 'claimed' by some bloke from Milton Keynes (lord knows what he was doing all the way down here) - trouble is, he's missed out the start and finish sections (the proper hilly bits), which shortens the climb by a good mile or so, and skews the time for everyone else. Now that he's put dibs on that bit of road (incorrectly) - I'm not even sure if anyone else can log a time for the full distance..??

I think you can-in fact i have extended a segment on a road. Initially there was a piddling segment of 0.3 miles, probably set up as a test for someone. I've extended it to over a mile. I don't know if the extention needs to be greater than the original by some percentage/distance?

 

[smutchin]

one of my local mountain climbs has been 'claimed' by some bloke from Milton Keynes - trouble is, he's missed out the start and finish sections

How do you mean he's "claimed" it? Has he set up a segment that covers only that portion of the road? There's nothing to stop you setting up a segment of your own for the whole road. There are several partial or wholly overlapping segments on some of the regular routes I use - eg Shooters Hill:
http://app.strava.com/segments/729058
http://app.strava.com/segments/748626
http://app.strava.com/segments/943563

d.

 

[smutchin]

I have at least 15 on my route to work, I don't want to have to click on each one :|

It's OK - you can hide segments you're not KOM on not interested in.

d.

 

[Andrew_P]

I like the zone summary & could prove useful - not sure they have that on garmin connect?

It is one of the things I enjoy looking at on fast run, I use Connect (as it has my lifetime data) Endomondo mainly for the monthly challenges and Strava for the fun segments.

Connect gives you chart of HR, a peak and an avg but not time spent in zones, again it will give a avg zone and peak zone but not like the strava suffer.

It is wide open for someone to combine the benefits of all three sites.

 

[400bhp]

It is wide open for someone to combine the benefits of all three sites.

Agree, shame I can't load historic data onto strava.

 

[potsy]

Agree, shame I can't load historic data onto strava.

I loaded all my rides since getting my garmin onto it last week
Now do each file individually as its quicker that way.

 

[400bhp]

I loaded all my rides since getting my garmin onto it last week

How?

 

[Hacienda71]

Big red button marked upload activity on the main page.

 

[Andrew_P]

Big red button marked upload activity on the main page.

how do you get 15 months data out of Garmin Connect? I have looked around it and they do not seem to a enmass download?

 

[black'n'yellow]

How do you mean he's "claimed" it? Has he set up a segment that covers only that portion of the road? There's nothing to stop you setting up a segment of your own for the whole road. There are several partial or wholly overlapping segments on some of the regular routes I use - eg Shooters Hill:
http://app.strava.com/segments/729058
http://app.strava.com/segments/748626
http://app.strava.com/segments/943563

d.

that's what I meant, yes - he's logged a ride up Blaen Bowi without starting anywhere near the bottom and without finishing anywhere near the top. But it sounds like someone can simply over-lap his route and do it properly. It's a near 5-mile, 1000ft climb, so it's a shame not to do it justice...

 

[400bhp]

how do you get 15 months data out of Garmin Connect? I have looked around it and they do not seem to a enmass download?

This is what I meant. I have about 15 months worth of data I'd like to load from Garmin too.