I have a new person...
 

  You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more

[Closed] I have a new personal goal

23 Posts
13 Users
0 Reactions
69 Views
Posts: 91000
Free Member
Topic starter
 

And it is.. to get on the first page of Strava for Cwmcarn.

I'm about 2 mins off currently.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:20 pm
Posts: 0
Full Member
 

Up, down, both, red or black?


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:21 pm
Posts: 25815
Full Member
 

car park, clockwise


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:26 pm
 LoCo
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Good luck, just about to start Strava ing 😉 😈


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:27 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Can you get a moped on there?


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:27 pm
 LoCo
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Can you get a moped on there?
😆

no but a monkey bike would probably be liftable over the gates 😈


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:28 pm
 Keva
Posts: 3258
Free Member
 

I did two laps of Twrch a couple of weeks ago, first was 1hr:04mins second was 1hr:06mins, where does that put me?


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:29 pm
 LoCo
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Under an hour is good, but there have been sub 45min laps. If not a minute or two quicker. 😯

Not sure what I'd do now on a pushbike, rather unfit going to be slower than 1.04 I'd reckon though 🙁

EDIT: 40.35 is quickest for a full lap.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:32 pm
 Keva
Posts: 3258
Free Member
 

good goal to go for Mol. Twrch is a top trail and pretty demanding I reckon, my arms were done for after the second lap and that climb up has to be challenging for most. I've still never cleaned it all in one go, bits I get stuck on one time I'll ride over another and vice versa.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:42 pm
Posts: 91000
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Twrch trail. My PB is 56 mins on the Patriot, I think I could go faster now.

I have done it loads so I know it well, and that really helps on the descents. I am not sure I've ever cleaned it either, although I've done all the bits individually just not on the same lap.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:42 pm
 LoCo
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Just checked stats and Huw from the Team is 4th. 😀 2mins and you'll be on the first page then Molgrips 😀


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:43 pm
 Keva
Posts: 3258
Free Member
 

wow. I did 58mins back in 2006 on my old maxlight xcpro. I can't see me ever beating that. Last visit I was on the steel rock lobster, not as fit now as I was back then. 43now.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:48 pm
Posts: 91000
Free Member
Topic starter
 

It's slower now than it was years ago too, I reckon.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:49 pm
Posts: 10485
Free Member
 

I'm aiming at the same for the full Red & black loops at 'degla, currently sat just over 6 1/2 mins off the front page (1:11:52), more than doable I reckon if I put some effort in 😆

Top of the shop is a no chance 58:25 😯


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:50 pm
Posts: 6235
Full Member
 

1hr9m (123rd of 668 having just had a look) on a rigid single speed with rim brakes in rain so hard I could barely see the trail.
My, that was a fun afternoon - I didn't see a single other rider the whole way around! But I'd gone there, and by god I was going to ride around it 😆

I keep meaning to go on my 'proper' bike as I'm sure I could go sub 55 mins.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 7:51 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I have QOM for one of the final descents to the car park.

Edit - I should add though, I am hilariously slow on a full lap 😆


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 8:24 pm
Posts: 91000
Free Member
Topic starter
 

So.. with Strava.. is it meant to automatically log the segments you happen to cover?

When I tried to run someone's 5k near my house, it didn't do it.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 8:47 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

[quote=molgrips said]So.. with Strava.. is it meant to automatically log the segments you happen to cover?
When I tried to run someone's 5k near my house, it didn't do it.

Yup. But sometimes it doesn't match segments with your actual track, must be GPS log variances I guess.


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 8:49 pm
Posts: 25815
Full Member
 

When I tried to run someone's 5k near my house, it didn't do it
Should do, but only if you both start and finish at the same points (assuming it's a circular route)


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 8:55 pm
Posts: 4336
Free Member
 

When I tried to run someone's 5k near my house, it didn't do it.

Have you got a privacy zone by your house? If so no segments within that zone will log


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 8:59 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I've just started using it, but didn't really need it to tell me how slow I was up whites level climb last night. Bloody 5 hundred odd, but I've got my excuses ready, dark, windy, raining, foggy and I will think of some more soon 🙂


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 9:11 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I'd never get a good time on strava; by the time I've got to the top of the cwmcarn climb I want to enjoy the free ride bits and session them a few times; even if I could do it under an hour(which I doubt) I'd probably spend another 50mins up there!


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 9:29 pm
Posts: 91000
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Re the 5k, I started outside his house, not mine 🙂


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 9:56 pm
 LoCo
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I'd never get a good time on strava; by the time I've got to the top of the cwmcarn climb I want to enjoy the free ride bits and session them a few times; even if I could do it under an hour(which I doubt) I'd probably spend another 50mins up there!

I think the 'freeride' bit is a segment 😉 1.03 fastest last time I checked, really want a top 10 on that bit 😛


 
Posted : 26/09/2012 10:11 pm

6 DAYS LEFT
We are currently at 95% of our target!