Do Strava (or other) segments affect your choice of route?

robinph

I've often got an email repeatedly for the same segment and me loosing the KOM to the same person several times on different days as they learn how to reclassify their activity correctly. Don't care enough to report anything that's been wrongly classified, but I do like looking at segments after a race and seeing how far behind one of my club mates I may have been along a particular section or if I may have had a better time for one hill and they beat me on the next one.

Mr Freeze

robinph wrote: »

but I do like looking at segments after a race and seeing how far behind one of my club mates I may have been along a particular section or if I may have had a better time for one hill and they beat me on the next one.

You will love this so (if you haven't seen it already).

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/

Stick in the the strava link for your last race!

robinph

Why can't I hit the thanks button more than once. That is awesome.

nerraw1111

Mr Freeze wrote: »

You will love this so (if you haven't seen it already).

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/

Stick in the the strava link for your last race!

That is fantastic!!

statss

nerraw1111 wrote: »

That is fantastic!!

DCM2013 in all it's glory

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#109337639

Krusty_Clown

Mr Freeze wrote: »

You will love this so (if you haven't seen it already).

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/

Stick in the the strava link for your last race!

It's the kind of content that makes me wonder why Garmin haven't bought Strava already, and fired their entire existing development team.

robinph

I now wish that I'd labeled my Strava activities properly rather than just uploading them, making it trickier to find the activities for certain races as I've never named them on Strava and just leave it to do it's think on upload.

viperlogic

robinph wrote: »

I now wish that I'd labeled my Strava activities properly rather than just uploading them, making it trickier to find the activities for certain races as I've never named them on Strava and just leave it to do it's think on upload.

The tagging feature is great also, eg run, workout, LSR, race etc and then when looking at http://www.strava.com/athlete/training/log you can easily find your different sessions especially races. Always considered going premium on Strava but theres not much more value add for runners but loads for cyclists.

Mr Freeze

robinph wrote: »

I now wish that I'd labeled my Strava activities properly rather than just uploading them, making it trickier to find the activities for certain races as I've never named them on Strava and just leave it to do it's think on upload.

Stick up a flyby link to one of your races, so we can see what its like.

Any of the races I have, only about 5 or 6 people upload to strava, so there isn't much to see.

viperlogic

There is also a Boards AC group on Strava... http://www.strava.com/clubs/boards-ac

Krusty_Clown

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Stick up a flyby link to one of your races, so we can see what its like.

Any of the races I have, only about 5 or 6 people upload to strava, so there isn't much to see.

Here's one: http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#145908813

jebuz

This flyby feature is so much better than space or dinosaurs. Any chance of a productive afternoon for me has just died.

Here's a recent race: http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#141599165,d6NvCEQHcAjZI3AIojNwCJw4cAiFTXAIGLpwCPLjcQjiWXIIY8tzCLH0gAgzArMI

Mr Freeze

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Here's one: http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#145908813

Yikes, I take it, you won!

Murph_D

viperlogic wrote: »

it was ex pro cyclist Lilian Jégou !!!

Was he on his bike at the time? :pac:

Mr Freeze

Does anyone know why this particular challenge does not appear in the regular challenges view?

http://www.strava.com/challenges/pave-batalla-de-junio

See the comments, others mention they can't see it, and mention settings to display secret challenges...are they pulling the p1ss? I don't see any settings on my pace for secret challenges?

Krusty_Clown

Strava wrote:

Uh oh! Xxxxxx Yyyyy just stole your CR!
Hey Krusty_Clown,
You just lost your CR on 1 track mile to Xxxxxx Yyyyy by 6s.
Now get out there, have fun and be safe.
-Your friends at Strava

What are these new unbridled emotions I'm experiencing? Disquiet? Anxiety? Anger? Rage? Twinned with a need for reciprocation and revenge. F*** You Strava, and your 'get out there, have fun and be safe'. Don't patronize me.

Not in my house... It's on...