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]SO, monthly/quarterly KoMs or they'll lose the "competition" aspect IMO
Would make it more interesting in the muddy 3/4s of the year.
here you go graham, just your end of the map
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Is there any way for the Strava-curious to have a peek at what Segments are nearby without actually signing up?
[i]EDIT: any cheap gps devices available that run Strava? don't want to shell out for a garmin [/i]
Yes. I just bought a Navin gps logger on ebay for £17. It records GPX files which Strava can import.
I'm cleaning up on strava round my way..
I now have slowest, fattest and grumpiest on nearly every section in a 50 metre radius of my house, as well as a couple of 'most likely to bite your grandmother' on a couple of sections..
8)
#drinkmysweat
I'm not sure how to work it..can I use my garmin? And if so how do you time your run? Do you just press lap at a certain point on the route? And if so how do you know everyone is starting it at the same point?
Nice one scaredypants thanks! 😀
Quite a few pointlessly short segments.
Wylam Bridge? WTF? It's about 20 metres across!
But C looks interesting. Y'know, if I was interested...
😉
Thought this ride interesting!
Kudos given (for the name if anything).
I signed up to this Strava lark last night and learnt one of the fundamentals this morning on my ride into work: Don't try and get all speedy on the morning commute unless you really want to regurgitate your bleedin' breakfast halfway up the first 1 in 5. Errgh! 😥
I also thought I'd easily get the KOM on the aforementioned hill only to find out that a bloody sportive went up there back in April and I'm only number bloody 35 😡
I'm amused by the proliferation of willy-shaped segments. After that one in Brighton, i've just spotted one in the woods near Reading.
I am however a crap Strava-ist. I just go for a ride with the GPS in my bag and see what i get.
Got a link to the Reading one?
I sometimes go for a road ride with a neighbour who's dead into recording everything via a Garmin 800. At the end of a recent outing he noticed that I record nothing at all and don't even have a Halfords type cheapo basic computer. Conversation went something like.
Him (thick French accent) - Adrian. zat was just under blah kms and blahdiblah of elevation on mine, how about yours?
Me - I don't have one Patrick, I don't know
Him - But how do you know how far you have been?
Me - I don't
Him - how about ze speed and ze heart rate?
Me - no idea.
Him - error, error, does not compute
Me - 1664 as usual mate ??
Anyway, wtf is Strava?
The Reading willy:
http://app.strava.com/segments/1152265
It looks a bit crimped and flaccid, by comparison with that tumescent member in Brighton, but i suppose Brightonian folk have a reputation to keep up...