[Closed] Strava adiction

the segments are very addictive, every ride recently has been planned to include as many as possible

Yes - it does add a bit more incentive to ride certain bits harder.

My KOM `s are slowly being taken away as the fast riders discover Strava ..

There is a whole thread dedicated to it on our club forum and it really, really shows who the competitive individuals are!

Me too. I now try and plan rides to take in as many segments as possible and really try to push myself to get a faster time. Before Strava I'd only ever just ride round and never worry about how long it took. I have been using the iPhone app, now I've bought a garmin edge so I can have the data on the bars and see how I'm doing. Really looking forward to my ride tomorrow I'm even going to pass on the Stella tonight.

It is so addictive! I just checked through the segments I held 1st position and someone has poached a couple within a km of my house. (they really need to implement a notification feature)

I won them over winter on the cross bike - time to get them back now that the summer bike is out 😈

Love Strava. Very much changed how I ride too.
I would love to find a way to mark start/end points of segments on your garmin and have it alert you when your entering/leaving one.
Alternatively Strava could produce small plastic signs that people could pin to trees.

Strava alerts, oh thats a good one

Just read about this on mbr, must take a look this evening!

f me. fastest time for cwmcarn twrch is 46 mins, my fastest is just under an hour....

Anyway to upload from garmin connect?

Its heartbreaking to bust your gut to get a decent time - and then notice somebody has almost halved your time .. and after they had already ridden 117miles .. [url= http://app.strava.com/segments/671028 ]I now hate Dan Fleeman :([/url]

Dan was clearly giving it everything he had if his heartrate is to be believed! 205, thats above my max which is about 190 these days.

some of the road ride kom are just incredible

not to many segments by me, so i have been creating them, a fair few to give me something to chase when the weather gets better.

My and my riding buddies are having lots of fun with segments, suspect we'll be doing hare and hounds soon to make for exciting finishes.

I set up a segment so I could name it. Lots aren't set with their 'proper' names, shame as trail naming is an art.

Some numpties are making segments of cheeky trails, dodos. Stop it.

I was pretty proud of myself for getting a KOM the other day, but after close inspection I found out that I'm the only person to have ever ridden it!

Who creates segments that they've never ridden?

Who creates segments that they've never ridden?

Didnt think you could do that! I tried to do it for some hills back home that I ride a lot, but have never done with Strava and couldnt see how to do it?

faff getting a track out of connect and onto strava, don't seem to be able to name the export file from connect either which doesn't help.

*grumble*

Think the competitive bit of Strava is good, but prefer connect as my main place to log tracks.

If you have a look at this [url= http://app.strava.com/rides/5948739#113372309 ]segment[/url] it has been ridden by one person which was me yesterday so somebody created it without riding it.

hugor, could be they rode it on a 'private' ride.

I can't find a way to make segments I haven't ridden.

Benefit of using a phone app is no faff with file synching and uploading, its all done for you. Disadvantage is elevations are wrong as they are taken from a db not barometer. Doesn't bother me, it's a toy not a serious training tool.

Ok another dumb question, loaded 5 tracks, is there any way I can see a summary of the segments / tracks and the overall positions without having to click into each activity, then click the segment and scroll to the bottom?

dt78 if you have a garmin device just upload it all from there straight into strava
hugor i think strava automatically creates some segments if they meet a certain criteria like gradient/elevation per/km or something.

I've got literally hundreds of local logs on the device, so just wanted to compare/compete on a couple of trail centres (which I've loaded ok now from connect with some faff)

Doesn't seem to user friendly to identify your placings without drilling down through the detail. I'd like to see a score next to the title of the activities themselves. Some segment at afan I appear to be 6th, and 16th for the twrch at cwmcarn. Can't be arsed to drill through everything though.

In wales for easter, given me some incentive to thrash it round, I know I can go faster!

DT78 when you go to the dashboard a summary of all your rides is listed and just below the ride is the achievements on segments.
If you want more detail you need to click on the ride.

theres certainly room for improvement in several areas of strava but its major pro is that theres nothing else really like it.
Hopefully it will improve over time.

a programmable report feature would indeed be useful to get to all the stats you need
notifications on kom on certain segments, downloadable gpx etc. user created challenges, the list goes on.

Ah ha, thank you Hugor I've spotted it now, looks like you have to ride the same track more than once to get the PR's achievements pop up, and I suppose as I've only got on segment in the top 10 why it I haven't got many achievements yet.

Would still be nice to know the twrch run was 16th without drilling in though...wonder how long before garmin connect copies the idea?

I've uploaded a few rides from my garmin and it seems to create stages itself - every climb, be it road, off road, or walking up to section a trail has been given a segment and time. Unsurprisingly, I've got KOM in quite a few 🙂

Only been signed in a week and already chasing times on local segments.
But it's added some fun and incentive to my comute.

What are KOM's? Is that where you have a 1st place?

Maybe I should log some local runs then !

King of the mountain. 1st place on a segment.

I have loads of kom s but mostly on bits only I have ridden lol

shit !
I'd never heard of this before. I'm pretty sure there's people who get up road climbs literally twice as fast as me, even on a good day

I am King of the Warburton Toll Bridge

http://app.strava.com/segments/1084411

and the Trans Pennine Trail

http://app.strava.com/segments/1097800

🙂

It automatically creates segments, hence you being KOM on climbs only you've ridden.

There's 2 near me it's defined which are wrong, shows them as being massive climbs when it's actually a pretty flat road!

I've had that too. Totally flat road and it's marked as cat 4. But hey im
Fastes either way lol

Took 6s off my current favourite DH run this evening.

^^^^ ditto the effect on commute

Time to take the car up some big climbs with my phone then - I rock 🙂

Odd uploaded my last gentle 25 miler round lordswood, didn't seem to setup any segments, do they have to be significant climbs? A couple of other segments already logged by other user are on my route. And I agree as.soon as the really fast guys get on it, it won't be much fun!

I think it will set up some cat 4 by itself, but they have to be at least a given distance (500m? 1km?) at over 4% I think. You can add your own segments that are any terrain type at all.

wish i could download other peoples rides as a gpx though..

so did I till I found: http://cosmocatalano.com/strava-gpx-export/

Would you not then see exactly where they start riding. Ie home mostly

my first upload was North South in Hobart where I got some nice placings - addiction started!! Been using it locally on the DH runs to see how I'm doing too. Just entered this [url= http://app.strava.com/challenges/specialized-classic ]100,000ft challenge[/url] just another 94,000 to go

Guilty!

I really love it. Really helping me push descents (because who cares about climbs right?) and even managed to get a KoM or 2 out in the peaks.

The elevation is pretty dodgy though from my android app. My local loop crosses a viaduct and I apparently put out about 1000w "climbing" back up the valley. Still, as has been said, more of a laugh than anything serious, particularly using the app.

I'd like to do a trail centre or 2 with it and see how things stack up......I imagine I'd be pretty disappointed with the results mind.

Its very addictive and can change the way you ride/ give you new incentive to ride stuff you were getting tired of.

I've been up to inners today and just blasted the XC course in one go without stopping, then made a segment out of the whole route. Thought I might have done pretty well but the guy in first place is almost 30 mins faster and did it as part of a mch larger ride.

Dont know if I'm more impressed or demoralised.

[url= http://app.strava.com/rides/5547132 ]1st proper Strave ride[/url] This is the one that got me hooked, nothing like finishing and getting told you were quick!!

I've been up to inners today and just blasted the XC course in one go without stopping, then made a segment out of the whole route. Thought I might have done pretty well but the guy in first place is almost 30 mins faster and did it as part of a mch larger ride.

That was me, 55 minutes i think 🙂 Sorry!!!!!!

Think it was my first strava mtb ride i downloaded from my garmin and got something stupid like 12 out of 14 KOM, on a day when although i wasn't going slow i wasn't giving it full beans either. Plenty more segments will be added in next few years so be interesting to see how quick we can all go

I've got 2 KOM so far, but I uploaded the route after making it, rather than it being my own track, so they're invalid. Shame really, they'll be the only KOM I'll get.

Would you not then see exactly where they start riding. Ie home mostly

You can turn a privacy setting on so it masks where you start and end to other users viewing your profile.

Strava can annoy you, I felt that I had gone faster up one of the climbs near me but was one second off my PB. Was gutted.

Gotta say I like strava a lot - makes rides a little more interesting. Not wanting to be too negative but
- it doesn't always recognise segments for named trails which to me have pretty well defined entry and exit points. This could be a problem with the first person who defined the segment.
- in order to get faster times it does encourage riders to straight line certain trails thus contributing to extra erosion
- and a little more controversially - it easy to find new trails thus not keeping them secret and also letting the landowners no.

As I said - it's great - I use it - just gotta switch it off at the right mo and remember to go round corners 🙂

- it doesn't always recognise segments for named trails which to me have pretty well defined entry and exit points. This could be a problem with the first person who defined the segment.

That's exactly what it is, it doesn't mark every trail out there itself!

The duplication is a little daft. There's 5 different 'Radnor Road' segments, which are identical routes from Peaslake to the reservoir, with end points differing by about 10 feet! I'm not that fussed, I'm KOM on all 5 🙂

I here what you say njee20.

But I did Northern Monkey yesterday. Great blast down but not recognised. Also have issues with 3 Amigos pt 1. Sometimes it recognises it sometimes it doesn't. I've considered defining the segment again but this gives duplication which as you say is occasionally daft.

Don't get me wrong I like the app a lot.....

As I always start my rides from home I've always been wary of making my rides public on Garmin Connect or Strava. I don't think its wise to advertise where all my bikes live. 😯
On Strava it appears that I can't be KOM unless I make the ride Public though 😕

You can mask the area around a certain post code, so it won't show up.

i think some of the variances and duplications with segments is due to different hardware recording the route, i.e garmin, htc, iphone etc.
garmin devices are pretty accurate but my phone does some odd stuff sometimes and misplaces the route by x meters and also power and elevations are also wildly different. I stick to the garmin and upload from that.

Loads of new segments have appeared round my way since I last checked a few weeks ago... definitely getting more popular!

That was me, 55 minutes i think Sorry!!!!!!

Think it was my first strava mtb ride i downloaded from my garmin and got something stupid like 12 out of 14 KOM, on a day when although i wasn't going slow i wasn't giving it full beans either. Plenty more segments will be added in next few years so be interesting to see how quick we can all go

Haha great stuff, well impressed with your time - fast on the way back down as well. I was suffering from a skipping chain stopping me putting a lot of power down but would still have been nowhere near. I had the KOM on the XC climb for the last couple of months but knew it was only a matter of time before I was knocked off. 😯 bugger me you put some miles in though.

Damn this thread, downloaded the app last night.

Just done a local blast without thinking there would be a segment on the best downhill section, would have pushed a bit harder. Oh well, I only beat the best time by 40 seconds on a 0.6 mile techy downhill segment. Boooooom, I love this app. ( I think my mrs will get tired of calling me KOM very quickly 🙂 )

it ruins club/group rides on the road, there you are rolling along at a nice 18mph and boom! the pace jumps massively because somebody wants a PB on a section. and instead of staying reasonably close on climbs there's always somebody off the front wanting to be a hero.
it's obviously a good motivational tool for solo rides but if you want to race people you don't know then enter a race and do it in the real world not the internet.
it's measurebating for wannabe's

Thanks njee

Sometimes I wonder if you are a real person or a parody of snobby cyclist cliches Mr Smith.

instead of staying reasonably close on climbs there's always somebody off the front wanting to be a hero.

Sometimes I wonder if you are a real person or a parody of snobby cyclist cliches Mr Smith

just somebody who likes to throw a polar view into the mix in the interests of healthy discourse.

funny when you get a KOM even when it is a downhill..

bYgger! now 2nd.. 😥 😆

http://app.strava.com/segments/907867

bum will have to go out now!

Still clinging on to my one road KOM, by one second. I didn't used to think much about climbs, but Strava has changed that. Very interesting to see how you compare to serious roadies (easily spotted by profile pics with TT bikes and teardrop helmets and/or power ratings).

What does annoy me is that there are a couple of sections I've created in the woods that it doesn't pick up, and one I can't even find one on "Explore", but it does show up on my list of KOMs. Odd.

just [s]somebody who likes to throw a polar view into the mix in the interests of healthy discourse[/s] [b]a troll[/b].

As I always start my rides from home I've always been wary of making my rides public on Garmin Connect or Strava. I don't think its wise to advertise where all my bikes live.
On Strava it appears that I can't be KOM unless I make the ride Public though

In settings - privacy you can set a radius around a postcode that is not shown, i.e exclude your home.

I think it's brilliant. It reinforces how slow I am and how much fitter I need to be. I have one KOM, shame I'm the only person to have ridden it.

funny when you get a KOM even when it is a downhill..

bYgger! now 2nd..

http://app.strava.com/segments/907867

bum will have to go out now!

still second - improved my time, but beaten still by 2secs - def motivational!

I need to go and get my Belgium bun KOM back.... The last time was on a rigid SS so may have to go better equipped next time...

8/9 on the stupid little climb up to my house? Now I know its a segment I'm going to hammer it! Its at the end of all my rides so i tend to just cruise up, with first place getting it in 2:05 I reckon thats easy beat for 1km stretch of 35m climb! Finally! I can justify the KOM jersey that I wear!

Signed up and trying to add my address to hide it...what format needs to be added? I've done first line, town then postcode in ab12 3cd format but it won't apply it...how do I block my postcode?

Thanks.

Signed up and trying to add my address to hide it...what format needs to be added? I've done first line, town then postcode in ab12 3cd format but it won't apply it...how do I block my postcode?

Thanks.

Full postcode, no spaces.

I've had Strava on the phone for a while but not used it yet. Am I right in thinking that it's like Endomondo but if you do a segment then it will automatically compare you with others? How does it recognise segments? Do people have to set them up manually or what?

Someone has to set the segments up we've ended up with some stupid names on the Quantocks, what the locals call Lady's Edge is called the A39 Climb (it's nowhere near the A39) 🙄
I put my postcode in (complete with space) and it worked for me.

Someone has to set the segments up we've ended up with some stupid names on the Quantocks, what the locals call Lady's Edge is called the A39 Climb (it's nowhere near the A39)

I live in Lancashire and even I know it as Lady's Edge. We have the same problem around here. Someone has called the Ice Cream Run at Rivington the Broken Road Descent. Clueless!

Postcode now working...well it saved this time. If I'm viewing my ride it still shows my postcode, is this because it is me and not someone else?

I set mine up to block my postcode... It worked for one ride and hasn't ever since. Anyone had a similar problem or knows how to fix it?

Someone has to set the segments up we've ended up with some stupid names on the Quantocks, what the locals call Lady's Edge is called the A39 Climb (it's nowhere near the A39)

Strava creates climbs and names them automatically as well based on certain criteria (e.g. elevation difference)

If you want you can go and make and name the segment yourself - if it's similar to an existing segment it asks if you want to use that one or create your own.

I think Strava is fantastic! Really great motivaion tool, and so much fun "racing" segments.

First thing I did when I got home was look over my ride ans add a few new segments where I remembered it being good.

Agree it's annoying at just how fast people are too 😆

Assume most are in the STW group:
http://app.strava.com/clubs/singletrackworld-com-forumites

Been busy uploading, great tool, seriously garmin connect should nick some of stravas ideas.....

Found out that on a lot of trail centre descents I'm faster on my mmmbop than on my nomad, not by much, but considering one is a hardtail and the other is a 6" full susser I take to the alps a bit of an eye opener!

seriously garmin connect should nick some of stravas ideas.....

Garmin are always a year or 2 behind the curve.

...either that or they will buy out a good idea and then wreck it.