Nearly lost my Strava KOM

c.p.w.g.w

So someone nearly took my one and only Strava KOM.

So I'm wondering is there any tools that would allow me to analyse the route. Such as being able to see what wattage would be needed to repeat my KOM time?

It's only a matter of time that I lose it, I have held it since 2014(predates my misses)

tuxy

Strava usually gives an estimate of power but maybe it didn't back in 2014 and it would be based off of your weight back then.

I take it that the KOM is on a gradient that's some way respectable(average 5% or more)

Maybe this calculator would give you a good estimate.

http://bikecalculator.com/

c.p.w.g.w

tuxy wrote: »

Strava usually gives an estimate of power but maybe it didn't back in 2014 and it would be based off of your weight back then.

I take it that the KOM is on a gradient that's some way respectable(average 5% or more)

Maybe this calculator would give you a good estimate.

http://bikecalculator.com/

It's actually a popular time-trail route, its fairly flat with two kicks of roughly 3%

tuxy

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

It's actually a popular time-trail route, its fairly flat with two kicks of roughly 3%

Then power is fairly irreverent just wait for a very windy day with the wind in the right direction or get your friend to drive a car and draft him.

c.p.w.g.w

tuxy wrote: »

Then power is fairly irreverent just wait for a very windy day with the wind in the right direction or get your friend to drive a car and draft him.

Ha ha ha

Get my buddy out in the squad car

tuxy

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Ha ha ha

Get my buddy out in the squad car

Know anyone with a truck?

Despite the music and how cool these guys think they are it's not too smart.

Drafting a truck like that at 70 km/h is about as brave/stupid as I've gone.

strmin

If you have KOM on popular TT route, you are wattage bazooka. How come you have only one KOM?

c.p.w.g.w

strmin wrote: »

If you have KOM on popular TT route, you are wattage bazooka. How come you have only one KOM?

Numerous reasons, but the main one was that I was off the bike for nearly 4 years and over that time lost the rest. It's fairly popular, yesterday alone 17 people did the segment. When I set the KOM I was in training for racing until an injury. So currently trying to get myself back to where I was

magicbastarder

don't mention what strava segment it is, some boardsie will probably try to go out and grab it...

c.p.w.g.w

magicbastarder wrote: »

don't mention what strava segment it is, some boardsie will probably try to go out and grab it...

I currently won't be ha ha

wanderer 22

Haven't used it but https://mywindsock.com/ has a few tools for this type of thing

Bambaata

Maybe post the segment here and we can analyse it for you

c.p.w.g.w

Bambaata wrote: »

Maybe post the segment here and we can analyse it for you

Ok here you go...www.strav....hey wait a minute

RobertFoster

magicbastarder wrote: »

don't mention what strava segment it is, some boardsie will probably try to go out and grab it...

Sorry about Mad Dog Lane again :pac: To make it up to you I'll give you a lead out on Glebe Road East, Wishbone Ash Mercian Pro Weepsie will never know

magicbastarder

that was you? i'm bleedin' surrounded by turncoats.
i recently got the KOM on this - have a pop at it: https://www.strava.com/activities/2566930445/segments/64457898902

magicbastarder

i gave it a go the other night, went too hard too soon, on cold legs. you're safe (by 10s) for now.

ED E

The best feeling is stealing a KOM from an ex pat thats gone to 'Stralia. Never taking that one back eh matey!

Second best is nicking your clubmates in his hometown

Bambaata

Worst is when you lose one abroad I've had some abroad that I'll never be on again. Worse again are all the run koms I had, I haven't ran in 3 years so no hope of getting them back!!

tuxy

I think people need to man up and post links to their most precious KOM and dare other member to attempt to claim it!

c.p.w.g.w

tuxy wrote: »

I think people need to man up and post links to their most precious KOM and dare other member to attempt to claim it!

It's all I got, gotta hold on for my life...I'm like one of those asshole boyfriends who won't let their Strava segment out with the other segments

Tell me how

tuxy wrote: »

Know anyone with a truck?
Drafting a truck like that at 70 km/h is about as brave/stupid as I've gone.

I go back to that video a couple of times a year. Each time I watch it, I think they are more stupid than I thought previously.

bunny hopping at that speed :eek::eek::eek:

tuxy

All the decent KOM with some real climbing in my area have been taken by someone who was about 50kg at the time.
My goal has been to get into the top 10 on them, far more rewarding than the actual KOMs I hold.

c.p.w.g.w

tuxy wrote: »

All the decent KOM with some real climbing in my area have been taken by someone who was about 50kg at the time.
My goal has been to get into the top 10 on them, far more rewarding than the actual KOMs I hold.

Those super light climbers are right whores

tuxy

Tell me how wrote: »

I go back to that video a couple of times a year. Each time I watch it, I think they are more stupid than I thought previously.

bunny hopping at that speed :eek::eek::eek:

Better than hitting large cats eyes at that speed but switching lane wouldn't cross my mind at that speed or anywhere near it.

Wishbone Ash

tuxy wrote: »

I think people need to man up and post links to their most precious KOM and dare other member to attempt to claim it!

I've held this one (on my commute) for 4 years now even though I'm not particularly fast. A certain Mr Sherlock is 1 second behind!

(Admittedly it's not a particularly popular route with only 21 on the list.)

The gauntlet has been thrown down!.:)

https://www.strava.com/segments/3804382

magicbastarder

this is the only one i think i still have; i lost KOMs recently on two other minor ones.

https://www.strava.com/segments/18593200

Wishbone Ash

magicbastarder wrote: »

this is the only one i think i still have; i lost KOMs recently on two other minor ones.

https://www.strava.com/segments/18593200

I have 15 currently but half of them are obscure ones created on private roads/trails by teenagers on MTB's around my workplace. There was a while back in 2016 when, anytime I took an alternative route into work, I was bagging a KOM. It was getting embarrassing.

daragh_

I had this one for ages - watching it go was tough but with time and therapy I'm over the loss :cool: No way I could dig another 30 seconds out of the bag.

wanderer 22

I had the Christchurch one for a while - the two ahead of me look dodgy but maybe that's just bitterness talking (It's definitely bitterness talking).

daragh_

colm18 wrote: »

I had the Christchurch one for a while - the two ahead of me look dodgy but maybe that's just bitterness talking (It's definitely bitterness talking).

Defo a bit sketchy.

Hungrycol

I had a lovely KOM for a while until clearly someone in a car left their Strava on while going through my KOM segment. After that disappointment I gave up in the whole segment stuff.

rodneyTrotter.

There certainly are prestigious ones around that most know about . Howth TT is definitely a popular one !

c.p.w.g.w

Hungrycol wrote: »

I had a lovely KOM for a while until clearly someone in a car left their Strava on while going through my KOM segment. After that disappointment I gave up in the whole segment stuff.

Report it to Strava

Somedaythefire

Hungrycol wrote: »

I had a lovely KOM for a while until clearly someone in a car left their Strava on while going through my KOM segment. After that disappointment I gave up in the whole segment stuff.

I got a KOM when the GPS must have gotten funky and recorded a full road when I only cycled half of it. I reported it and they took it down. Report that one.

magicbastarder

my father in law (not a cyclist) is organising a charity cycle. i had to get him to log into strava on his computer yesterday - he'd been using it to map out the route - and hide all his activities. he was a little put out that people had ratted him out on strava, until i explained that bagging people's KOMs while driving a powerful merc was not quite sportsmanlike.

smacl

No KOMs for me but third on an off road bit I do regularly and had been hoping to steal early one summer morning. Bastard mother nature with her briars and nettles and encroaching foliage put paid to that. Sitting here with shredded calves and a beer plotting plan B. About as much chance as Wiley E Cayote catching the roadrunner..... (It will be mine!!!)

dahat

Have a few alright but with so many top riders around my area there are mine only cos the don't travel the roads.

I did however take 2 off the head of my coaching company!

Bambaata

Ive a fair few (head swell!) but top few most happy with would be:

6000+
https://www.strava.com/segments/12828303

600+ and a far out and back so no wind advantage
https://www.strava.com/segments/3386883

900 odd
https://www.strava.com/segments/2128189

Not many have done this but its another fair fiull loop one
https://www.strava.com/segments/1663860


And one that if anyone manages to get access to beat then far play to ya :P
https://www.strava.com/segments/3677659

My most proud one was a loop iin Phoenix park that i had for a good while until a bloody olympian nabbed it, and by nab i mean destroyed it!

CramCycle

magicbastarder wrote: »

that was you? i'm bleedin' surrounded by turncoats.
i recently got the KOM on this - have a pop at it: https://www.strava.com/activities/2566930445/segments/64457898902

That looks doable :cool:

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Report it to Strava

I have given up reporting, last one I tried reporting, it told me it was already reported and resolved. I just commented he left it on in his Car, and he edited it straight away.

magicbastarder

CramCycle wrote: »

That looks doable :cool:

Very. Not a well traveled segment.

Wishbone Ash

CramCycle wrote: »

That looks doable :cool:....

If you can find it!

magicbastarder seems to navigate the most obscure backroads of North Co Dublin and east Co Meath. Strava indicates that I have done it once in a club ride in August 2016 (20th place) but I have no recollection of it.

magicbastarder

I have a rough rule that every time I go out I should find a road I've not been on before, but that's getting a bit harder now. That 'feeling well' segment isn't so obscure for me, I lived a couple of hundred metres away for six months.

I see a someone had a pop at it today, got within 1s of catching me.

ED E

Email: Gary has stolen your KOM.



Goddamn it Gary.

Paul_Mc1988

Have had three. One which was the meath heritage tour. Was then beaten by 11 seconds. Only have one now which is the long mile road but thats just a case of getting luck with the lights and holding 350 for two minutes

Borderfox

magicbastarder wrote: »

I have a rough rule that every time I go out I should find a road I've not been on before, but that's getting a bit harder now. That 'feeling well' segment isn't so obscure for me, I lived a couple of hundred metres away for six months.

I see a someone had a pop at it today, got within 1s of catching me.

I sat up, couldn't do that to you

RobertFoster

Borderfox wrote: »

I sat up, couldn't do that to you

Sam Quentin

tuxy wrote: »

Know anyone with a truck?

Despite the music and how cool these guys think they are it's not too smart.

Drafting a truck like that at 70 km/h is about as brave/stupid as I've gone.

This is not stupid.. this is pure bravery and skill,. Love it.

CramCycle

I nearly threw up when he bunny hopped the first time.

ED E

ED E wrote: »

Email: Gary has stolen your KOM.



Goddamn it Gary.

Five emails about. Five. And five push notifications.


Rubbing salt in the wound there lads (Ride London's fault tbh)

CramCycle

ED E wrote: »

Five emails about. Five. And five push notifications.


Rubbing salt in the wound there lads (Ride London's fault tbh)

Once a week Strava send me an email about a KOM I lost in Tallaght. I get it, I lost it. John G took it 2 months ago, yet once a week they send me a reminder.

manwithaplan

rodneyTrotter. wrote: »

There certainly are prestigious ones around that most know about . Howth TT is definitely a popular one !

I'm 13th on that due to a tailwind in a club league TT a few years ago. Three of us broke 7 minutes. Couldn't believe I only finished third!