Silly STRAVA Racing

[SoloCyclist]

Just the one KOM today and it was myself I beat. It's a road on my commute and I got a 29.9mph average with my backpack on and was wanting 30mph. I don't normally go down it when out at the weekend as there are quieter roads I prefer, but I felt good today after my ride and decided to go for a 30mph average on my good bike carrying no weight. I got 34.7mph average for a 4 mile segment so well chuffed. A climb segment I created comes after it and I was pants :-) nothing left.

Good as that was I was far more pleased with a 2/121 I got earlier which was my main objective for the day.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Good luck Andrew. I hope you go very slowly and come no where near beating me. I really do want some glory for more than 2 hours :-)

Sadly I had no time for a warm up lap but I am very pleased to have smashed into number 5 on the leader board for Alton Water!

http://app.strava.com/rides/15262035

Despite the rain and wind there were an awful lot of folk out on hire bikes today, not that I'm claiming that as an excuse of course


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[mattobrien]

Andrew, you'll have to get out of bed for a quieter lap. I only had dog walkers, with their dogs off heir leads to contend with. Thinking about it, I am fairly one of them cost me the three seconded needed or the KoM.

 

[4F]

Ha ha, I just managed third on this segment http://app.strava.com/segments/1455668

On the way home from Sainsbury's on my hybrid.

Na na to the big boys on their carbon bikes who are only just ahead of me

Cheeky bugger, whenever I do that segment it is morning rush hour and I get held up by a chuffing car and you and go and beat my time on a shopping trip ......

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Sunday morning is usually my riding time do I might have to give it another shot. I'd also like to see if a warmup lap would help, that seems like a very good idea.

 

[gaz]

oh god. I wish you could see who created a segment, just so we could see which fool made this http://app.strava.com/segments/1013914

 

[middleagecyclist]

oh god. I wish you could see who created a segment, just so we could see which fool made this http://app.strava.com/segments/1013914

207.3 mi/h! My that is fast.

 

[Kiwiavenger]

they are also subteranean too! 35 ft underground!!

 

[lejogger]

I like your style Mat, a sort of draft followed by a Cav sprint. We will have to get out on a sun morn and go segment hunting. We could see if we could get a Suffolk CC peloton with Scilly, Andrew and MikeE

My best pal and I decided we'd go for this segment as a chain gang last tue on the way back from the tuesday night TT: http://app.strava.com/segments/1736727
He didn't have his Garmin on him, so it was always going to be just my time, and in any case, I went so hard for it he could't get past me to take up the pace at the front!
It was a blistering effort by my standards though! Don't let the profile fool you, it's almost completely flat, for the majority, not the descent that it looks.

 

[gaz]

they are also subteranean too! 35 ft underground!!

35ft under sea level. It would be a bit silly to base elevation on how high or low you are above ground, as most of the time you will be at 0.

 

[Hacienda71]

I got a KOM tonight, but bailed mid way through two other segments because of the quantity of midges and being unable to see the road due to the low sun. Still good interval training though.

 

[lejogger]

A fellow club member has decided that he is going to go after all of my KOMs. A lot of these are not my best riding, but obviously good enough to sit at the top of the tree for a while.
I've lost 3 in 3 days...
The sad thing is, I don't have the motivation to go out and specifically ride a certain route just to get them back... but at the same time I know I'm the faster rider, I took nearly a minute out of him on a 5 mile TT last week.

What's a guy to do? Reduce myself to his level, get dragged into the scrap and spend my evenings pedalling around the Wirral attempting to claw back some dignity? Or let the young lad have his fun and just scalp him in tomorrow's TT?

...or both?!

 

[BSRU]

A little annoyed with Strava, uploaded this mornings ride and the moving time "guestimated" by Strava is about three minutes longer than from the Garmin site and two miuntes longer than the total ride time, not the first time this has happened .
I also removed a ride that gave me KOM on a 7.5km segment although I was KOM by over a minute I realised, with the help of raceshape, that Strava had included the minute I had stopped for traffic lights, so I should have been over two minutes faster.

 

[Edwards80]

Strava had included the minute I had stopped for traffic lights, so I should have been over two minutes faster.

Why would it not include that? Segments through lights involve a bit of luck but if it didn't count time stopped, what's to stop someone sprinting in stop/starts through a segment, recovering in between efforts.

Compare it to a TT, if you get a bit of bad luck at a roundabout with traffic, you don't take any time off for it.

 

[lejogger]

A little annoyed with Strava, uploaded this mornings ride and the moving time "guestimated" by Strava is about three minutes longer than from the Garmin site and two miuntes longer than the total ride time, not the first time this has happened .
I also removed a ride that gave me KOM on a 7.5km segment although I was KOM by over a minute I realised, with the help of raceshape, that Strava had included the minute I had stopped for traffic lights, so I should have been over two minutes faster.

The pitch where I play football is midway through a segment. I ride up there, stop the timer, play for 90 minutes and then set the timer again and complete the segment... my average speed through it last night was 0.4mph

It would be silly if the time recorded was just my cycling time and not the real time elapsed.