Silly STRAVA Racing

[Andrew_Culture]

thing is i have a garmin and most of them are short sprint segments so i know his speed and just keep mine above it so he has a carrot dangling in front of him, He took one back yesterday by 1 second, i'll get out friday and beat it by 5 seconds or so.
Soon though hes gonna set a time i cannot beat as he rides it 5 days a week. what will i do then?

Brilliant!

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

thing is i have a garmin and most of them are short sprint segments so i know his speed and just keep mine above it so he has a carrot dangling in front of him, He took one back yesterday by 1 second, i'll get out friday and beat it by 5 seconds or so.
Soon though hes gonna set a time i cannot beat as he rides it 5 days a week. what will i do then?

I would suggest when he starts to beat you then thats Kharma in its full swing.

 

[400bhp]

thing is i have a garmin and most of them are short sprint segments so i know his speed and just keep mine above it so he has a carrot dangling in front of him, He took one back yesterday by 1 second, i'll get out friday and beat it by 5 seconds or so.
Soon though hes gonna set a time i cannot beat as he rides it 5 days a week. what will i do then?

Brotherly love eh.

 

[400bhp]

Feckin car driver pulled across my path today as I had just started a segment- ended up being 1 second off KoM.

Did he not realise how important this segment was to me. Car drivers, they just don't understand STRAVA.

 

[400bhp]

RE: Post above. This is one of the best things about commuting and STRAVA - if you don't succeed, just try again tomorrow.

 

[fossyant]

RE: Post above. This is one of the best things about commuting and STRAVA - if you don't succeed, just try again tomorrow.

Don't think I'll be attempting to top yesterday's KOM for a few weeks - suffering badly today - the undercarriage isn't happy.

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Don't think I'll be attempting to top yesterday's KOM for a few weeks - suffering badly today - the undercarriage isn't happy.

You know that old saying. "No pain........no KOM". Or something like that.

 

[gaz]

On target to finish this challenge, just need to do 3hours and 3mins each day for the next two days

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Tried a new segment, felt like a ego-fool for thinking I'd ace it only to crawl up at about 6mph. Turned around and did it again... Got KOM.

 

[defy-one]

http://app.strava.com/athletes/540526

not a big deal i know for you big time cyclist out there ..... BUT - I'm just about to clock up my first 1000 miles on Strava ..... feeling rather pleased

 

[400bhp]

Don't think I'll be attempting to top yesterday's KOM for a few weeks - suffering badly today - the undercarriage isn't happy.

 

[fossyant]

Oops didn't last long eh. Feeling much better today - must try for the East bound times tonight. Amazing what you can do on a 20 year old MTB with snow tyres and guards. I'll be stripping them off and putting the lightweight tyres on next !

 

[400bhp]

Got a KoM today with fully laden backpack.

There's a guy who I was "competing" with over the summer on a fair few segments in S Manc and I suspect he's a fairweather cyclist. He's pretty much non existent for the last couple of months.

 

[mangid]

On target to finish this challenge, just need to do 3hours and 3mins each day for the next two days

Yep, the Oktoberfest has got to me as well. Currently need 4hours 37minutes 23s, should be doable, even if I have to drag the kids the long way to Waitrose on Saturday!

Have had some real grit your teeth and suffer weather in the past couple of weeks ;-)

 

[Rob3rt]

I entered the Oktoberfest challenge but only got 41% complete. I am a bit uninspired by the Strava challenges because they tend to interupt rather than complement my goals for next year and usually involve clocking tonnes of junk miles. During the challenge, I did keep an eye on my ranking and % etc but I did no additional riding to try complete the challenge, in fact, I did less riding than usual due to swapping one of my 40 mile solo rides for an hour of group interval training to focus on my weakness (big accelerations, sprints and to develop my recovery between all out efforts) and switching out my long Sunday ride to an early morning 40-50 mile steady tempo ride at about 85%. Also had a club run cancelled this week, so instead did an impromptu 10 mile steady TT effort. So all in all, I am less about 50-60 miles a week milage wise per week the last 3 weeks.