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Just fitted new wheels,wider rims.should stop the tyre roll a bit
which magazine told you that was slowing you down 😉
I keep getting the 'Uh, oh...' email about my run CRs. I immediately start strapping on the shoes, only to find out it was someone on a bike. Damn you false-alarm strava bug!
Yup, I get the same thing Steve. Seems to have become a problem more in the last few months - or at least more annoying. Apparently Strava are looking at ways of resolving it. Delaying sending emails for 10 seconds, whilst the user swaps from run to ride might be a good start.
Anyway 23, but most of those are runs which only about 2 other people actually do. Though a few mtb ones now.
There's a local one where I am joint 3rd with 5 other people, which I like to improve on, but I think I'd need the legs off Chris Hoy to get from the current 29secs to the KOM 25secs on it.
Do you get the double 'uh oh' post too Ian? Yes, obscure segments for the win. Yet to be denied on the road past the fishing lake, Total Carp. Helps that its marked No Through Road at the bottom 🙂
I'm way down the list on popular stuff like the Horseshoe Pass. Genuinely impressed by the speed of the leader board on that one. Amusingly everyone got a mass demotion the day the Etape Cymru went over there.
I just got a top 10 on an outdoor swim segment 🙂 It's actually a real swim loop in the local triathlon lake, so it is legit. No idea how they work it out though, as swimming plays havoc with the GPS readings.
Do you get the double 'uh oh' post too Ian?
I don't think so, though sometimes it's hard to tell when the 'uh oh' comes through via email and and the strava phone app.
I'm building up a list of names in my head that if I see an 'uh oh' with that name in, I know it's not a real one.
No KOM's here, but got dozens of top 10's, a few top 5's, and even some 2nds and 3rds. Just no elusive KOM! This is a mix of onroad and offroad too, and mostly heavily ridden segments.
The one I'm most proud of though is 5th place on a road segment 13 miles long, that I am less than 30 seconds behind 2nd place on. Had I not had to stop for so long at 2 sets of traffic lights on that day I'd easily be 2nd, and on a solo ride too (no group hunting), I was just in the zone that day. Quite a well ridden route too (over 100 riders at least).
Know of LOADS of erroneous data though. A local loop our club use for a 20 mile TT has some ridiculous times. The course does take in 4 laps of a 4 mile circuit as well as a 2 mile start and 2 mile finish. Fastest Strava time is about 28 minutes! There's 10 times under 48 minutes on there, and the fastest we know its ever been ridden is 52 minutes (and I know half the guys with the silly times and they're not that fast), so sometimes its counting them even if they've only done one or two laps not the full 4...
someone took one of my KOMs at the weekend, I only have two now and one of those is downhill so cant really count!... is there a period of grace allowed before attacking it again?! 😉 theres two in the area I want though as a measure of my own performance improving, one is a mile long hill, the other is a 10km section on gently undulating road. They are Pomphrey Hill and Wapley Road TT for anyone South Glos based....
Know of LOADS of erroneous data though. A local loop our club use for a 20 mile TT has some ridiculous times. The course does take in 4 laps of a 4 mile circuit as well as a 2 mile start and 2 mile finish. Fastest Strava time is about 28 minutes!
Multiple laps will screw the start/finish waypoint markers so what you're seeing is probably 3 laps recorded as 4 or something. It doesn't like figure of eight loops where you pass the same point but going in opposite directions. It's probably seeing smaller segments rather than the one long one - super long or super short segments really mess with it.
There was a blog post on this kind of thing recently after the Daily Wail ran an article about how the maximum speed of these terrible "lycra louts" in London were 37mph along The Embankment - cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how dangerous cyclists are and how they should all be made to pay road tax. The blog gave a load of proper well-research answers into how these wild speeds occurred. Can't find it now - anyone got a link to it?
I have 42- I suspect a few are very glitchy. It is all silly, but I like it because I tend to do quite a few of my loops a lot so I can see how one day compares to the next. Most of mine are on the flat so it is hardly KOM more king of the tailwinds.
Just reclaimed one in Sutton park on my lunch ride, been after it for a while - boo yah!
is boo yah appropriate?
Nicked one of the new DH sections at Swinley on Friday - the fun one from the reservoir. Doubt that'll remain for long but I wasn't really chasing strava KOMs so prob have a bit more in the tank 8)
pulled off 4 more last week, 2 reclaimed on the mtb the day after i got the email to say i had lost them. 2 on the road bike using last weeks gentle breeze, 13miles at 26mph, should have pushed it a bit more in hindsight.
It is not that accurate as it seems to take the nearest logged point after/before/on the start and finish points so depending on how the GPS has logged your time you are nearly always at a disadvantage to the first person that logged the route. Can you do private sections for your friends?
GEDA - only if your GPS is set up not to log every second.... youll be wanting every second logging if you are playing strava.
Know of LOADS of erroneous data though. A local loop our club use for a 20 mile TT has some ridiculous times. The course does take in 4 laps of a 4 mile circuit as well as a 2 mile start and 2 mile finish. Fastest Strava time is about 28 minutes!
Strava has to allow for a lot of stuff. You can't really blame them for this one. I believe the rule is that you have to have been "on course" for 75% of the track for a segment to be counted. That corrects GPS wobble... but of course if you get a nice sharp reading over 3 of those 4 laps, there's your 75%. Probably the quick rider only did 2 or 3 laps, or some other mash-up of roads in the vicinity that meant they'd covered enough of the course for Strava to count it.
You're not setting it an easy challenge with 4 laps and a run in/run out.
someone took one of my KOMs at the weekend, I only have two now and one of those is downhill so cant really count!... is there a period of grace allowed before attacking it again?! theres two in the area I want though as a measure of my own performance improving, one is a mile long hill, the other is a 10km section on gently undulating road. They are Pomphrey Hill and Wapley Road TT for anyone South Glos based....
I've been know to get the bike out and immediately go and try and get a KOM back - particularly if i feel i have lost it due to wind conditions 😀
I bagged a hotly contested local DH singletrack segment recently, and had lost it again by the end of the day.
Just waiting for another good dry day to have another pop.
I think you're joint second with me (DT78)ah 90 degrees, I had that KOM for ages, then I lost it. Went back spent an entire afternoon sessioning it in May, getting the line perfect, even swept fircones off the flat corners so i could take them faster. Rode it over and over
result - matched my fastest time.....when I had just 'gone for a ride'
Just taken it tonight DT78. 🙂
Gained my first decent singletrack KOM on Sunday morning 😀
... lost it by Sunday evening 😕
last one just gone. but I am 2nd out of 80 on a road climb, and I am 3 stone overweight at present.
However, I'd rather have the beer that keeps the weight on than the KOM back...
Bugger that is another second I will have to find somehow....
Hah! Up yours Strava - turns out I had a bit more gumption than I gave myself credit for..
No KOM but a top ten which is a [i]helluva[/i] lot more than I had hoped for on a heavily ridden segment, and I'm pretty certain that I didn't take the most direct route either..
I'm chuffed, not bad for an ex-junky.. 😀
No KOMs but quite happy with some top 10s on popular segments near me in the Dales. Took five minutes off my best on one of them this week. Gotta love tailwinds...
is there a period of grace allowed before attacking it again?!
This crossed my mind this morning, after loosing one yesterday evening. After a bit of thought I decided that it was just as contrived to wait as to not to wait, so 12 hours is what I'm currently using. 🙂
Hmm, is there some simple way to see all your achievements? Not just KOMs, of which I have zero, but personal bests etc?
I've got 3 KOMs, didn't realise I had 2 of them until now 🙂
Hmm, is there some simple way to see all your achievements? Not just KOMs, of which I have zero, but personal bests etc?
+1 I'd like to be able to see all the segments on the map and be able to filter them (like KOM, top 5%, top 10% etc...) to tell me where I'm highly placed and where I need to push it more.
From what I can tell on the roadie I'm strong on short sharp fast climbs, but rubbish on long drags....
Hmm, is there some simple way to see all your achievements? Not just KOMs, of which I have zero, but personal bests etc?
There is loads of info on the URL below if you upload your rides.
[url= http://veloviewer.com ]http://veloviewer.com[/url]
I actually saw someone take mine. Watched a fast looking cyclist hammer up a road that there's no other reason to hammer up. Checked a few hours later and sure enough my KoM had gone. I was in the car at the time. Should have pulled out and blocked the sod.
🙂
Fab, cheers Richpips
I have now, Snake Eyes is mine, Mmmwwhaaahaa 🙂 Bet it doesn't last long long 🙁
A couple for running, not cycling. Think it means even less when in the context of running though tbf. Still quite enjoy having them though!
My son has an 8th place on one from yesterday's ride. OK, so only 14 people have ridden it, but he's only 3 (he was pedalling hard on the back of the tandem).
Is it naughty to genuinely have to break the speed limit on a segment? One of my KOMs is an average speed of 56.9kph in a 30 limit (that is fairly accurate - I'm using a very recent Garmin which is pretty accurate). 😳
Is there a singletrack Strava club or should we start one?
yes - 2. Both regular rides of mine but curiously not v popular generally. One in Islington and one MTB in Wiltshire. Got a 10 out of 508 in the Peaks (MTB) at the weekend that was quite pleasing. Would have had a top 5 if I had known where the section was.
Beats Facebook into a cocked hat!
307.
Is there a singletrack Strava club or should we start one?
[url= http://app.strava.com/clubs/singletrackworld-com-forumites ]http://app.strava.com/clubs/singletrackworld-com-forumites[/url]
upto 23 now as managed to get a few this week and not loose any for a change
I'm top 10% (top 40) on the new Swinley loop, not bad considering I did a couple of extra bits of singletrack*, I was absolutely dead though by the end as I ride there and back which adds 12 miles!
*the long muddy drag which I can't believe is supposed to be the new track parallel-ish to seagull in the opposite direction? The old bit round the resevoir rather than past the 'freeride area', and climbed the old DH track up to the clubhouse rather than the fire road.
That veloviewer is pretty good....!
It is!
Excellently I just discovered I do have a KOM. It's a push-up path 😆 Fastest pusher EVAR
Looking to bag [url=http://]Hipster Hill[/url] in Dalston (LDN's Hipster Quarter) on my Marin City Sport dressed head to toe in Altura....
Bugger that is another second I will have to find somehow....
Sorry DT78 .... You're going to need to find some more. KOM time now 2:20min 🙂
I'm going to have a go at that one in Lordswood on Monday, as i'm too lazy to go anywhere else to ride that day.
Seperately, managed to pick up a few more round Swinley & Peaslake recently which is nice!
90degrees is one of the few that is evading me. Will have to man up and mash those pedals at some point.