Strava KOMs

Five, different climbs at the 7-Stanes with a few top tens thrown in for climbs and loops plus one roady climb on my commute that gained me a stalker.

I’ve got one. Most of the places I ride are pretty popular so I’m stoked to be top ten!

A swift jaunt around Phillips Park Hall and area just got me a few second places,and a bonus KOM on a road section.

I’ve got maybe half a dozen, some i didn’t even know about until i checked on veloviewer mentioned earlier. DAMMIT STRAVA GIVE ME MOAR GOLD CROWNZ!!!
Don’t take it too seriously, just injects a bit more banter into club rides and pushes me on a bit.

Checked my MTB stuff

Hully Gully No slouch 🙂

Leaderboard // Overall
My Current Place 309th / 1161
My Best Time 1:23

and a Gisburn climb 🙂

My Current Place 240th / 1254
My Best Time 8:08

tpbiker – Member

Ha Ha…thanks Big Jim. In fairness to the King this one was was up the kirkgate, and on rechecking the top 4 are all within 30 seconds of him. No cheating involved sadly.

Its just that I’m very slow in comparison!

Hes obviously just a climbing machine.

Damn you Paul Sharp…:-)

Ah, Paul Sharp, my competition!
He’s always trying to steal my KOM’s 😉

I’ve got 12, but it seems no one else has ridden some of them 🙂

http://app.strava.com/athletes/188472/segments/leader?page=1

about 200 of them roughly, get a few a week and lose a few a week. Have some pretty good ones

Yes… Square and compass to swanage off road down the priests way.
A few pints of cider
The last dry trail day of the year
A gate of two open as the farmers were gathering hay.

http://app.strava.com/segments/2270123

about 200 of them roughly, get a few a week and lose a few a week. Have some pretty good ones

just looked at your longest ride and pretty impressed [thumbs up smiley]

Trail Rat – quite possibly! I’ve not used it personally, but that does sound dodgy.

As I understand it, you select a % performance boost, and it just increases your speed.

My mate has just got a kom. Cant say i’m jealous!

Still first southbound out of 2053 riders http://app.strava.com/segments/788605 if not for the guy who has the rogue reading of 128mph grr

FTFY, Phil

have 35,Ups and downs.

Gain 1 a week usally.Not loosing many at the moment.

have got used to my new bike so its game on.

Just fitted new wheels,wider rims.should stop the tyre roll a bit

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 helluva 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. 🙂