[Closed] Race against yourself....?

This works well for me with Strava combined with my Garmin Edge device with Strava Premium and Strava Live. However when I am going flat out I tend to find that simply tracking the time difference (ie. indicating that I am 2 seconds ahead, or even just a colour showing I am ahead or behind) is much more effective than a position on a map as it is hard to take in any extra information when concentrating at high speed on a twisty trail. I suppose this is how most people do this?

as above, I use an 820 with Live Segments on Strava Premium. It's really good as a training tool as you can see where on the segment you are gaining or losing time. You can choose to race against your own PR, your friend who is closest ahead of you on the Leaderboard or the KOM.

It works really well & has done wonders for my Strava times! Not only the extra motivation, but knowing [i]exactly[/i] where it starts/finishes helps squeeze the most power out of your legs over the segment. 🙂

I don't time myself down to the last 0.1 of a second, but there's a loop I do most mornings that I try to do in 30 minutes or thereabouts, as measured on the living room clock when I leave and get back so not massively accurate or anything! I try to only use the top five gears as well, sort of like singlespeeding-ish and having to get out of the seat for hills and stuff. It just makes riding local stuff that we've done a thousand times before a little more interesting and a bit more of a challenge.

I do this occasionally with the Virtual Partner on my garmin. The only thing I don't like about it is that it gives you the gap in distance, not time, so it fluctuates around more due to gradient than it does due to actually gaining or losing ground.

This is quite an old unit, mind (an Edge 605) so maybe the newer ones can do time as well.

Virtual partner on some models gives both distance and time, the 1000 certainly does, as did the 705, so yes, just ago The thing I find annoying on the 1000 is that there's only two data fields (distance and time ahead/behind) and a useless image to show who's ahead. The 705 had the map as well, which was much more usable!

Live segments is excellent too, but obviously designed more for short bits of rides rather than the whole thing.

I use a Mio 505 - create my own private segments on strava premium and use them to race against.

as above, I use an 820 with Live Segments on Strava Premium.

It's just so dissappointing as I'm getting older and slower. 😥

yup same here.. sometimes.. live segments / strava premium / cheapo (disposable) android phone

One very slightly irritating thing is that Live Segments can't deal with overlapping segments - it'll only display the first one you start. There were two I wanted to have a go at today, where one was a subset of the other. Do you go for the longer one and ride the first half hard blindly, or go for the shorter one so you know you've got that in the bag and then try and hang on?! #firstsworldproblems

Thanks for all the responses guys/gals, I'm going to try making a segment of the complete ride and tracking it on the iPhone, whilst I save up for a garmin 820 😉

I don't know if live segments works on iPhones does it?

can't see why not? definitely works on my 20quid POS android phone and I just verified, the option is there on my iphone too

I go with the Kayla1 approach but use the time on my phone. Been trying to do a sub 30 minute bikefest lap (one from about 5 years ago) for the last 5 years or so. It makes riding the same loop more enjoyable. To add further variation, I alternate between a SS, fixed and clunker........

I too chase myself on Strava. Makes it more fun when out on my own.
Can you link a Garmin straight to Strava without using a computer? I'd consider getting one if I could upload times straight from the device and then check them on the phone but apart from work related stuff the laptop normally stays in the bag and the iPad gets used for browsing and the like so uploading via that would be a pain.