Strava

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It's a wonder they have not stuck and ad slot in there yet. It winks do ridiculous numbers and you'd know a LOT about the audience and their location etc.

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Herman Toothrot said:

Anyone else find strava seems right on calories burnt when you ride in road but then talks absolute bks when on a turbo trainer. I.e. 1 hour road riding ~650, 1 hour on a turbo doing a sufferfest vid 2500, obviously rubbish.

Unless you are using a powermeter don't even pay attention to the number.

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I think they're making a mistake.

Its not as good. As far as I can tell I cannot now select a period of someones ride to see their average power/speed etc?

st.

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uncinqsix said:

Click on "Analysis" at the top left of the page (it goes to "Overview" by default). The functionality you're looking for seems to be there.

Does it?

It allows me to highlight a portion of a ride but then doesn't seem to give me any numbers for the selected period (not an average anyway, you have hover and see speed/power at any point but not overall)

ETA- yes see what you mean its down the left in tiny grey text.

Edited by okgo on Saturday 25th January 15:59

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Dizeee said:

I don't want to star or favourite loads of segments though, I just want to see all of them and be bale to pick and choose what I analyse. Many of the hidden ones are long 4 - 10 mile segments that I am particularly interested in.

As for point 2, no, it is just for example's sake, Garmin average = 18mph, Strava Upload will always dock that to 17.9 maybe 17.8mph, and on the app this then becomes 17.7mph.

Is your garmin set to autostop?

The difference will almost certainly be that your garmin is recording data differently. The numbers that strava takes are generally VERY accurate with regards to average speed.

Also, who gives a fk about 0.1 average speed?

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47p2 said:

Anyone here use Veloviewer or Ritmo to work out where they score in the big bad world of roadies?

I think plucking a number out of the air would be a better way of working out where you stand.

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Dizeee said:

I don't know what's going on but I feel like I have kind of lost my mojo on the bike at the minute.

This has been my second biggest month on the bike at 42 hours of training, and that included a very lazy week last week and no riding this weekend. I kind of felt tired, bored and lethargic and not much like going out. I had a couple of bugs which I put this down to but the feeling has remained for a week now.

I don't feel as excited as I did about the weekend rides any more either which is weird. The missus is due in a couple of weeks and we have so much going on so maybe it's all to do with that.

Its possibly because you have no purpose to your riding. The way you describe your riding is the way someone who is an avid racer etc would look at it, i.e. I don't want to do this riding, but I know I need to or I'll be st in the races next season. That is how I look at it, over the last 8-9 days I've done 20 hours of riding and can say I enjoyed about 2 hours of it, but I know I need to get out and train as the desire to win events outweighs the dullness of going out for 4 hours on my own.

You're having the same mindset as I am but with seemingly (correct me if not) nothing the other side to get gratification from (race results, target time in the Etape, etc etc) so I can well understand it. I've always thought the way you spoke about how you were going to step it up and what not was more to publicly put it out there so you followed through with it, I personally would struggle do go and ride 50 hours over a month if I knew it wasn't going to be 'for' anything.

Obviously you may not agree, and it may be normal life getting in the way etc, but that is just what I've observed.

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MadDad said:

I rest my case......

LOL. I have gone out with the intention of attacking a segment, but usually its either part of a training ride (a hill for example) or its a longer loop where i might be doing a 20 min effort, I would not dream of doing what he did there.

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I'll have that bet with you.

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Many of the short ones are held by people with garmins set to smart recording which glitches the data often. Not sure on that one but certainly there are lots that are kom'd in that manner.

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HowMuchLonger said:

Regarding Richmond Park:
Can you explain why the "Broomfield Hill" segment of Strava is flagged as dangerous due to it being a downhill section?
BUT "Broomfield Hill Wood to Cafe" is considered fine, even though it is a continuation of the above, and then crosses a roundabout before carrying on?
Currently 15/15000 for that segment and my rule is no drafting.

People create endless segments until they don't get flagged, Richmond Park is frankly a joke, so much so, when you go and do 5 laps it takes about 20 mins to upload as it cannot cope with the sheer number of segments.

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People have eyes though, nothing stopping a thief on a moped or in a car cruising Richmond Park til they spot what they want and then following them home to return in the night.

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My partner does. And yep same segment system. Although it's Course Record rather than KOM I think

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Think it needs data to work tbh. Google maps etc doesn't work with no data signal

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAM_(bicycling)

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Correct.

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See Matts post.

VAM is useless metric on 3 minute climbs.

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mcelliott said:

Claimed this as my 78th KOM in tonight's group ride. Not sure how long it will stay there though! Was in a group with semi pros and commonwealth games riders.

http://app.strava.com/segments/6923348

That jersey lot?

I recognised a few of the names from the strava segments, I remember racing with a few of them last year, seem to remember some glum faces from Tour of the milburys in the final stage

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That's the one.

I lost a few KOM to a clubmate who took them on his TT bike in the good wind, just had a look, he has 396 KOMs lol.

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Silver940 said:

Just checked our local Strava king, and if my maths is right 846!

Edited by Silver940 on Wednesday 21st May 08:25

I must admit, I couldn't give a toss about them 99% of the time, they don't mean much in isolation.