[Closed] Strava: Only record Segments? not whole ride?

If you are happy to hack the GPX file then this is possible. However, just set your rides to Private and no one else will see them. You can still see how you fare against the fast folks on the segments and still see how you are progressing.

Endomondo would have the same problem and not really the same comparison.

I don’t think you can compare your time against the leaderboard if your ride is set to private, unless you do it manually of course.

You would get PR’s etc against your own times.

Use VeloViewer for all sorts of geeky stats, including your own and relative performance. I think it's £10 pa but definitely worth it.

thanks guys.

i guess i'll have a shot.

i could always just upload my gpx files from viewranger right? but it's a bit long-winded

Just start the recording for the bit you want to record, then stop at the end.

Depends on whether there is more than one segment you are shooting at per ride, but if there's just one, you can manually trim the start and end of the ride to cut out the non-segment parts. It's a bit of a faff and can only be done on the website, not via the app,

all you have to do is pause the recording between the end of one segment and the start of the new one. the transitions wont be recorded and you can choose which segments you actually want to record.

or set an exclusion zone up around the bits you don't want to publish.

Privacy zones only apply to the start and the end of the ride. If you pass through a privacy zone in the middle of the ride, it won't be hidden.

Just go riding around some remote militarised island, that's bound to stay underneath everyone's radar.

: )

start of the ride would do it. ok thanks

now, i need to get my phone onto my bars...

Commute rides, included extended ones with hill reps, are recorded on my mobile  in my shirt pocket. Recently, I've started recording a couple of minutes or so before I actually start riding, while indoors in the warm... I then crop the rides later on to remove the pre-ride and post-ride faff.

You could use Ghostracer Pro (£3) to give you live audio feedback on how you are doing compared to a previous ride on a segment, whether that be your's or someone else's. I wouldn't use both earpieces myself, I keep my right ear free of a Bluetooth ear bud to hear what traffic is around me, when I bother with this feedback at all (not that often).

Use multiple, partially overlapping postcodes in Strava's privacy settings to make it less obvious where you live/work.

As I can't edit the post...

Stravistix, a free plugin for Google Chrome, to get more stats on rides and a fitness/fatigue/form guide.

https://cricklesorg.wordpress.com/ for more stats, like estimated FTP and LTHR, another handy freebie suggested on here a few months back.

got everything working as i want it seems. can set routes to private while making some segments public for example. just fine.

god some people are fast! some climbs i thought had to be e-bikers, then clicked on profiles and turns out they are just super fit xc types!

still i can compete against myself, which is the main thing for me

I wonder if you set a very big exclusion zone, so your route isn't visible, would anything in it still go on segment leaderboards?

Bizarrely IMO, private segments don't register for the Strava user who created them, if the start or end are inside a privacy zone.

I don't know what happens if a segment, private or public, passes through a privacy but has the start and finish outside the zone.

Just mark ever ride as Private so only you see them. Any segments you make, Mark them private and also opt out of the fly by thing.

[b]kelron[/b] wrote:

I wonder if you set a very big exclusion zone, so your route isn’t visible, would anything in it still go on segment leaderboards?

No. Even if only part of the segment is inside your privacy zone. I know this because there are a few segments local to me the ends of which lie inside my privacy zone I don't figure on the leaderboards for.

The trouble was that the privacy zone was a fixed radius, and living in a housing estate just off the main road it was impossible to set so it didn't cover part of the main road (I tried selecting the postcode furthest from the main road which still covers my house and the whole of the housing estate, but that still included part of the main road). I say "was" - prompted by this discussion I've just checked and it seems at some point they introduced a custom radius, so I've now successfully set a privacy zone which doesn't include any of the main road (I'm still having to use a different postcode as mine is within 200m of the main road) - unfortunately it seems this will only affect new rides, any of my existing rides still don't include those segments.