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    #1622
    Leroy42
    Registered Users Posts: 15,480 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Some idiot has flagged a whole batch of segments in the Fairview/North Strand/Amien St area. It's getting ridiculous! :mad:

    While I don't understand why anybody is bothered to flag a segment, I also don't see the point in these tyoes of segments.
    Fairview/NS/Amien St area is a main traffic artery, cycles lanes, peds, traffic lights, schools etc. It's not really a place for head down, balls out, handlecar chewing racing.

    I just hide the segments myself but don't understand why people bother with Segments such "Amiends street sprint" etc. Seriously, whats the point.

    These segments are too short and too many vairables to have any real point to them. I find them interesting to see what others can do, so I suppose they are useful in a way, but I wouldn't be bothered if someone got rid of them either


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    #1623
    hueylewis
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭hueylewis


    If you're planning to recreate a flagged segment, it might be worth being a little boring with the description. Like, omit the word "descent" or "downhill" for starters. Probably will still get flagged if some jackass is actively monitoring segments, but the one downhill segment (avg just under -10%) I've bothered to recreate has stayed alive for a month now. I won't name it here in case some lurker wants to flag it for the fun of it, but I used the structure: "placename" approach via "road/area name".


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    #1624
    Zyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Uploaded a spin from today and got KOM on three segments..but they are not showing up, one of them only has a PR on it.. :|


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    #1625
    C3PO
    Registered Users Posts: 3,738 ✭✭✭C3PO


    Zyzz wrote: »
    Uploaded a spin from today and got KOM on three segments..but they are not showing up, one of them only has a PR on it.. :|

    How do you know you got a KOM if it's not showing up on Strava?


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    #1626
    Zyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    C3PO wrote: »
    How do you know you got a KOM if it's not showing up on Strava?

    Its fixed now, but I knew from lapping the time on the garmin on the actual segment..when I uploaded the spin my time was faster than the original KOM but only came up as 'PR' for some reason!


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    #1627
    rollingscone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Finally have strava working again on my new* phone.

    But seeing that my last 500km of spins didn't happen (if it's not on Strava right? ) was a real bummer.


    *by which I mean 2 year old hand me down.


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    #1628
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    rollingscone wrote: »
    Finally have strava working again on my new* phone.

    But seeing that my last 500km of spins didn't happen (if it's not on Strava right? ) was a real bummer.


    *by which I mean 2 year old hand me down.

    if you recorded them on another device you can manually upload them


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    #1629
    rollingscone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    godtabh wrote: »
    if you recorded them on another device you can manually upload them

    Just my cateye and I didn't take notes. Foolish :(


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    #1630
    Carpenter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭Carpenter


    I wonder how exact is strava I am 2 seconds ahead of Mr Sherlock on a segment now that feels great but am I really ahead .


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    #1631
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Carpenter wrote: »
    I wonder how exact is strava I am 2 seconds ahead of Mr Sherlock on a segment now that feels great but am I really ahead .

    I know what you mean, himself is 5 minutes faster than me on Kilmashogue lane on Strava...but is he really ahead of me? :D


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    #1632
    Carpenter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭Carpenter


    colm18 wrote: »
    I know what you mean, himself is 5 minutes faster than me on Kilmashogue lane on Strava...but is he really ahead of me? :D

    Yes now your talking I should be more than 2 seconds ahead of him I try hard and this is where I live plus there is about 20 years in the difference :D between us .
    Colm I just seen its you guess that means my 2th place is looking gloomy I am watching strava more often now


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    #1633
    mcgratheoin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭mcgratheoin


    Carpenter wrote: »
    I wonder how exact is strava I am 2 seconds ahead of Mr Sherlock on a segment now that feels great but am I really ahead .

    Not very exact on shorter segments. I went through a segment yesterday on a spin with a mate. I went into the segment a bike length ahead of him and came out of it about 50m clear, but his time was 5s faster than mine!


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    #1634
    Zyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    113 cups on this ride..there I was thinking my 10 was admirable..

    http://www.strava.com/activities/162070198


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    #1635
    ryan_sherlock
    Registered Users Posts: 885 ✭✭✭ryan_sherlock


    Rode the climb from Bunclody to the top of Mount Leinster today at the end of training: http://app.strava.com/activities/162528876

    Hadn't done it before - has my vote as the hardest climb in Ireland (and I have ridden most) - would make an incredible (and HARD) National HC Championships... The last 2.5km are killer


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    #1636
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,952 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    ryan_sherlock wrote: »
    Rode the climb from Bunclody to the top of Mount Leinster today at the end of training: http://app.strava.com/activities/162528876

    Hadn't done it before - has my vote as the hardest climb in Ireland (and I have ridden most) - would make an incredible (and HARD) National HC Championships... The last 2.5km are killer
    Impressive stuff Ryan. 14 minutes ahead of second place! ...and you managed to get to 53km/h somewhere on the way up! :cool:

    How would the last bit compare to the Gap of Mamore?


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    #1637
    ryan_sherlock
    Registered Users Posts: 885 ✭✭✭ryan_sherlock


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    How would the last bit compare to the Gap of Mamore?

    Harder - there are breathers in Mamore... Also, you have not been climbing for 10+km when you hit Mamore. Going up Mamore in the Ras/HC Nationals 39x26 was plenty (I was going harder though...) would have loved more than that today.


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    #1638
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    ryan_sherlock wrote: »
    Harder - there are breathers in Mamore... Also, you have not been climbing for 10+km when you hit Mamore. Going up Mamore in the Ras/HC Nationals 39x26 was plenty (I was going harder though...) would have loved more than that today.

    I have to ask, what did you eat during spin?

    Don't make me fall over and tell me you did that without some food?


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    #1639
    ryan_sherlock
    Registered Users Posts: 885 ✭✭✭ryan_sherlock


    For breakfast, omelette bacon, some berries, yogurt, coffee. During, home made rice bars, some desiccated coconut bars, after 4 hrs a coke, snickers and banana from a shop. Carbs + protein after.

    Nothing crazy there - Wednesdays long ride was on Butter Coffee. Hadn't been training (long) much in a while (lots of race/recover & shorter training sessions) so enjoying getting back into this.


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    #1640
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    ryan_sherlock wrote: »
    For breakfast, omelette bacon, some berries, yogurt, coffee. During, home made rice bars, some desiccated coconut bars, after 4 hrs a coke, snickers and banana from a shop. Carbs + protein after.

    Nothing crazy there - Wednesdays long ride was on Butter Coffee. Hadn't been training (long) much in a while (lots of race/recover & shorter training sessions) so enjoying getting back into this.

    Thanks for that.

    That makes sense at your pace, I could probably do it without food but take about 2hrs extra!

    Must do Mount Leinster again (to mast this time) before end of year


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    #1641
    irishmotorist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭irishmotorist


    Strava support posted up a reply on the topic flagging of hazardous segments.

    It will be good to see how this looks when it's released.
    We are preparing to release some modifications to the hazard flag system for Segments which we hope will address the feedback shared by our users here. Your patience has been greatly appreciated while we took the time to figure out the best course of development. We’ve certainly been listening to the conversation regarding hazardous segments, and we are excited to finally have an update.

    Based on your feedback and discussion, we’ve been working hard on a solution that will:

    Allow users to provide more detail about hazardous segments,

    Minimize instances where the segment flag is used inappropriately, and

    Give users the option to view leaderboards for all segments, even those that may be hazardous (by agreeing to the hazardous segment waiver).

    We hope that these changes improve your Strava experience around Segments. In the coming days (yes, days!) when the changes are released, please share your feedback with us, and we look forward to hearing from you.

    At the time of the release, I’ll share updated documentation that goes over the details of the new features, and also a new feedback forum to leave your comments.

    Stay tuned! I’ll post an update as soon as the release goes live.


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    #1642
    rab!dmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭rab!dmonkey


    Can you link to the post? The 'hazardous segment waiver' sounds wonderful, but I won't be holding my breath.


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    #1643
    irishmotorist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭irishmotorist


    rab!dmonkey wrote: »
    Can you link to the post? The 'hazardous segment waiver' sounds wonderful, but I won't be holding my breath.

    Here it is...
    https://strava.zendesk.com/entries/21592949


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    #1644
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,445 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Issues with math on segment:

    Average 63.4km/h
    Maximum 54.7km/h


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    #1645
    rab!dmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭rab!dmonkey


    Breaking news:
    Strava now syncs with Garmin Connect natively (as reported by DC Rainmaker). The only downside is that the names of your transferred activities will not sync. Probably not a big deal for most, but I'll be sticking with CopyMySports instead for as long as that is the case.


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    #1646
    mathie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭mathie


    Can you get an audio warning when a segment starts and ends?


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    #1647
    detones
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭detones


    Since i updated my Stava app on iphone it's automatically posting my spins on Facebook. How do i stop this?


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    #1648
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    detones wrote: »
    Since i updated my Stava app on iphone it's automatically posting my spins on Facebook. How do i stop this?

    Delete your Facebook account


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    #1649
    detones
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭detones


    Great idea while im at it you can delete your Boards account.


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    #1650
    rizzodun
    Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    detones wrote: »
    Great idea while im at it you can delete your Boards account.

    Glad I didn't post that witty comment!

    Try going to settings -> link other services.. (android but I'm gonna guess that iPhone has this option)

    Otherwise, check the auto share option is disabled on your strava account...

    https://strava.zendesk.com/entries/21565619-Share-activities-to-Facebook


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    #1651
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    detones wrote: »
    Great idea while im at it you can delete your Boards account.

    Grab a snickers


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