Strava tarting

[PeteXXX]

If you use Strava, or similar apps, could you finish a long ride just short of the intended miles?
Point raised as I was on a nighttime Sportive last night, and several riders tagged on my Strava finished the 100 miler on:-
98.3
96.5
98.7
99.4
miles.

No way could I do that!

 

[NorthernDave]

If you use Strava, or similar apps, could you finish a long ride just short of the intended miles?
Point raised as I was on a nighttime Sportive last night, and several riders tagged on my Strava finished the 100 miler on:-
98.3
96.5
98.7
99.4
miles.

No way could I do that!

No, me neither - rode the 'Epic' Vale Vélo sportive in April that was 98 miles. So I added another two miles on just before the end to finish on 100.8 miles - no way was I finishing two miles short of a century!

And I've lost count of the times I've had to ride round the block at the end of a ride to round the mileage up.

 

[PeteXXX]

@NorthernDave Exactly! Their supplied .gpx said it was only 98.4 or summat, so we did a mile 'warmup' before we started, and due to rubbish signage, we did the extra necessary miles on the wrong roads, and finished on 100.4.
I'd have ridden past the finish line ( I did this on the BHF Norwich 100 last year as I was a mile short!)

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

OCD is a wonderful thing

 

[PeteXXX]

OCD is a wonderful thing

It's not OCD, in this case it's a necessity!!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

It's not OCD, in this case it's a necessity!!

Yes - I suffer too

So close to 100 - it's just gotta be done, OCD or not!

 

[derrick]

Used to round it up, but can't be bothered now.

 

[13 rider]

No I have to get past the 100 mark somehow . On our last forum ride @tallliman and @Supersuperleeds rode around Lincoln train station car park to make sure of their targets

 

[cosmicbike]

I used to round up, but now I'll only do that if it means an extra Eddington, not that I'm becoming obsessed at all

 

[PeteXXX]

Used to round it up, but can't be bothered now.

That's sooo wrong

 

[tallliman]

For a century, if I'm close I'll do the extra. For 100km, less so. Depends how close I am, 5 miles off sometimes is enough to just stop short.

 

[Ian H]

I'd leave it just under to annoy folk.
But seriously, no, it wouldn't worry me at all.

 

[TVC]

On my first ever century I got back half a mile short and had to ride round the block, most frustrating.

 

[Aravis]

At first sight it seems odd, but maybe it isn't. It's purely a personal thing whether an arbitrary number should be important or not.

I've always regarded achieving 100 miles as highly significant, but genuinely I couldn't care less about the 200km target which is prized by some. Last summer I was quite amused when 2 consecutive 124-mile rides both ended a smidgeon over 200km. It must have looked as though I'd done it deliberately, but I certainly hadn't.

As it happens my next ride is planned, quite specifically, to finish on 123 miles. The explanation is artistic - yan tan tethera being the relevant phrase in certain northern dialects - betraying a quite different manifestation of OCD to that mentioned above. I hold my hands up.

 

[LarryDuff]

Normally I would round up but at the Tour of Sligo back in May I was too knackered to do the 1.5 miles needed for a ton.