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If you want to make yourself feel better, join the stwforumites thing on there and filter the segments to just show those results. Bang, I'm suddenly top 10! 😆
FunkyDunk, it's fairly easy to.make that mistake if you use a forerunner to log rides as it defaults to upload as a run. I was a running god briefly till I realised that!
If you want to make yourself feel better, join the stwforumites thing on there and filter the segments to just show those results. Bang, I'm suddenly top 10!
so I can compare myself against other old and fat people without paying for premier membership 😀
(i know there are some genuinely fast folks on here, just thought I'd wheel out the stereotype for comedy value)
that's not working so well. Just checked a few segments and I'm often the only STW-ite who's ridden it. Where I'm not, I seem to have gone from halfway down a very long leaderboard to the bottom of a very short one. There goes my chance of being a strava god 🙁
EDIT: the roadies in the club are fast, the mtb-ers not so much
Some strava time seem fake. On one of my local tracks some rider did 87kph on a tight twisty track with small berms and big jumps How the hell is that possible? I'm not the best rider but I've been riding that track for ages and I only have ever managed around 50kph and that is just about the fastest that seems fit for this small tight twisty DH track..
EDIT: the roadies in the club are fast, the mtb-ers not so much
when you say club? do you mean STW strava or your club????
For the former, take the leader-board with a pinch of salt it isn't a true reflection of fitness, I was only fourth last week on distance I just enjoy riding and consider myself as average fitness.
@akaskittles, is it a short track, 60secs or less? that is the answer, it is crap, gibberish, rubbish, however you want to put it. Strava does not work on short tracks, it also has issues with lots of twists , turns, corner cutting.
If you want to make yourself feel better, join the stwforumites thing on there and filter the segments to just show those results.
It was fun for a few minutes but I feel like I'm only cheating myself.
when you say club? do you mean STW strava or your club????
I meant STW strava. i looked at road segments and was last each time. I looked at off-road segments and wasn't last. I know I'm not fast in the wider world, was just interested to see the difference between comparing me to STW forumites on-road vs off-road
I can't believe there are more than 200 people in that Strava group! When only me and Aidan what I set it up!
Who's "Belgische Wafel"? Big miles!
If you want to make yourself feel better, join the stwforumites thing on there and filter the segments to just show those results.
I tend to only looking at off-road climbs as I do much better on those:
I'm 1/10 of STW forumites on the [url= http://www.strava.com/segments/1440617?filter=overall ]Transmission [b]climb[/b] at Hamsterley[/url], and [b]22/771[/b] overall.
On the [url= http://www.strava.com/segments/1152433?filter=overall ]Total Triple Tranny [b]descent[/b][/url] that follows it, I'm [b]1167/2136[/b] overall and 17/21 of the STW Forumites.
I know my strengths 🙂
Interestingly, on the [url= http://www.strava.com/segments/3363572?filter=overall ][b]combined climb and descent[/b][/url], I'm [b]57/964[/b] overall and 2/10 of the STW Forumites.
I lost one last summer on a twisty'ish climb that's I had at a smidge over 3 minutes and all the other riders in the top ten were within 40 seconds of that time, then along cane another rider (that I know of) and he promptly knocked nearly 40 seconds off it.
I'm not being an arse but there's no way he's nearly 25% faster than me up hill on that hill alone out of all the climb segments round here. Glaring gps/strava cock up.
I'm not being an arse but there's no way he's nearly 25% faster than me up hill on that hill alone out of all the climb segments round here. Glaring gps/strava cock up.
So flag it - they provide a very easy method to do so. GPS errors can't be helped, I've had erroneous rides come up.
I set some pb's at Glentress yesterday on the downs , quite pleased with myself but then had a look at the leader board , blimey charlie there are some quick riders out there ! cant imagine ever being anywhere near some of those times . No reason to doubt them when you see the names
I'm 1/10 of STW forumites on the Transmission climb at Hamsterley, and 22/771 overall.On the Total Triple Tranny descent that follows it, I'm 1167/2136 overall and 17/21 of the STW Forumites.
Interestingly, on the combined climb and descent, I'm 57/964 overall and 2/10 of the STW Forumites.
interesting, 771 went up the hill, 2136 went down the hill, but... 964 went up and down the hill....
Interestingly, on the combined climb and descent, I'm 57/964 overall and 2/10 of the STW Forumites.
Interesting use of the word interestingly there.
I'm also endlessly fascinated with my own Strava stats, not quite so into the minutae of other peoples' though.
😉
interesting, 771 went up the hill, 2136 went down the hill, but... 964 went up and down the hill....
There's more than one approach to the top of the descent and more than one route back down again.
Interesting use of the word interestingly there.
🙂
Interesting in that that the climb performance makes up for the slowness of descent. Which confirms that climbing is [i]far[/i] more important than descending 😉
The combined climb / descend ones are usually a bit off as a lot of the time people will have a rest at the top, if you're in a group you might re-group whereas on your own you might just keep going and head straight into the descent.
Guess it depends if you're segment hunting during the ride or just riding and checking segments after.
The combined climb / descend ones are usually a bit off as a lot of the time people will have a rest at the top,
Slackers.
if you're in a group you might re-group
Losers.
whereas on your own you might just keep going and head straight into the descent.
Winner!
😉
I know the segment in tentsmuir and have gradually been increasing my speed on it. I got 13.1kmh and that's partly cos im on a ss and can't make it up a couple of the steep bits. How the leader has recorded the top speed is beyond me. I don't think there's a fast track parrallel all the way.
Before I signed up to Strava, I drove about 20 miles with my Garmin on to check the distance recorded s it was consistently reading 10% less than a mate's device.
Forgot that it was on there and uploaded all stored data to Strava when I signed up. Cue reports that this 'ride' may not have been pedal powered. The funny thing was I was driving back from a mate's house having been forr a ride and hadn't taken my HRM off, so there were sections where I was averaging 60mph with a heart rate of 65 or so.
Haven't used Strava so I may be missing some other great features, BUT these ridiculous competitive times seem to me a pointless distraction from what is essentially supposed to be a fun, non-competitive sport. When I'm riding I get much more pleasure from finding the most fun route, not the fastest although like anyone I love belting it downhill. Met a tit on a recent ride who kept droning on about his KOM time for some boring ascent. I was way slower but a) who cares and b) out all day on a long ride, not wasting my time practising one little section to get a fast time and post it on the flipping internet.
from what is essentially supposed to be a fun, non-competitive sport.
Sounds to me like you're the one writing rules about how people must choose to ride their bikes. MTBing is whatever people want it to be. For you and many it's about just having fun. For others it's about going as fast as they can. So long as they're not being idiots about it then I don't see the issue.
MTBing is whatever people want it to be.
^this^
Can't really argue with that.
hear hear
same argument as for that "why don't you try and get big air / do tail whips?" thread.
most reviews and all the marketing nonsense seem to suggest that getting from bottom to top to bottom fastest is the most important factor though, and that I'm wasting 10 seconds of the day adjusting my seatpost up/down, rather tham pressing a button.
[i]edit: grrr hate it when the pages changes like that.[/i]