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28-07-2019 06:52PM

Did 60km over the sally gap today.

2nd time coming down Cruagh today in a week, second time nearly getting cleaned out of it by an impatient motorist coming up stuck behind someone climbing. Avoiding in future.

Plastik · 29-07-2019 08:52AM

Nice spin around the Wicklow mountains at the weekend. The road surfacing works at Featherbeds & Glencree meant taking some roads I wouldn't regularly use and a few new roads on the western side. Beautiful day for it and loads of people out. 127k with 2,600m elevation at 27.5avg. Some part of the country for cycling when we have the weather.

Type 17 · 29-07-2019 05:52PM

N11 to Kilmac, up the long hill to Roundwood, over Sally Gap and down home through Rathfarnham.

In this direction, (at present) all of the chipped sections all are on the level or climbs, so it's not too bad.

73km in 3:03 with 967m ascent for an av of 24km/h - felt a bit slow as I'd done 50km yesterday.

BoardsMember · 30-07-2019 01:16PM

Ballydehob, Schull, Durus, Sheeps Head, Bantry. Gorgeous scenery, lovely morning for a spin. Bantry bay from sheeps head is class.

saccades · 30-07-2019 09:29PM

162km in just under 11 hours with 3250m of climbing.

On an Mtb.

Off-road.

Tough going as we had all the sunshine ( 33C on the way to the event) from everywhere so it was a struggle to drink enough, especially as I had no bottle cage or hydration bladder type thing.

Been trying to hit that distance for the last four years, so really happy.

Seth Brundle · 30-07-2019 10:29PM

saccades wrote: »

162km in just under 11 hours with 3250m of climbing.

On an Mtb.

Off-road.

Legs sore much?

saccades · 31-07-2019 11:29AM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Legs sore much?

A little, mainly the patellas as I used a high candence to keep the lactic acid down.

Clumsy mainly.

31-07-2019 09:47PM

Dropping the youngest off this morning to her grandparents and while on route we came across the scene of some hay bales that had been spilled from a trailer onto the main carriageway through Drogheda. It was in the process of being cleared and Gardai and couple of tractors were in attendance but this was like birthday and Christmas at once for my little passenger, she is obsessed with tractors and only slightly less so emergency service vehicles . She cant really say the words yet so all I was getting from behind was trac ted (tractor ted is a kids show) and nee naw.

She was physically rattling with excitement

Fair play to the Garda who returned her wave.

magicbastarder · 31-07-2019 10:26PM

dahat wrote: »

I've also noticed the the elevation correction feature reduces metres climbed when using the Wahoo. It makes no difference to me but to some it would

is that the wahoo doing the correction or strava? i've often noticed that strava reports elevation gain about 10% higher than garmin, for data recorded on the garmin.
in a way, i'd trust strava more if it's doing a correction, as elevation in GPS is so inaccurate; strava may be matching the ride to actual map data rather than raw GPS data. that said, if their map data is based on elevation from those same GPS devices, who can we trust?

tuxy · 31-07-2019 10:31PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

is that the wahoo doing the correction or strava? i've often noticed that strava reports elevation gain about 10% higher than garmin, for data recorded on the garmin.
in a way, i'd trust strava more if it's doing a correction, as elevation in GPS is so inaccurate; strava may be matching the ride to actual map data rather than raw GPS data.

Doesn't the garmin us a barometric altimeter sensor for elevation?
Should be fairly accurate most of the time but things like thunderstorms moving in can throw the reading way off.
Does strava us google maps for altitude? That also has problems with inaccurate elevation mapped.

magicbastarder · 31-07-2019 10:37PM

i've a cheapo garmin, updates the elevation every km or so, certainly not an instant calculation. definitely wouldn't be instantaneous update if it was barometric pressure, i guess.
edit: just googled it, and it seems mine (the edge 25) uses GPS for elevation.

tuxy · 31-07-2019 10:40PM

I have an old garmin 500 with barometric sensor. During good weather the altitude is reasonably accurate but it's always out on rainy days I don't know if newer devices have better sensors or not.

magicbastarder · 31-07-2019 10:53PM

one thing i noticed on mine was that it seems fine on reasonable climbs, but on very small 'climbs' (maybe 5m gain) it sometimes didn't register them - which is where i was guessing strava might be correcting it.

smacl · 01-08-2019 08:51AM

Early one from Ballyboden, Bohernabreena, Glassamucky, Featherbeds and back down via Cruagh road in absolutely perfect conditions. Between Deer, rabbits, sheep, cats and various birds it felt like an audition for a remake of Bambi. Absolutely glorious, hopefully get out again this evening after work.

dahat · 01-08-2019 11:36AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

is that the wahoo doing the correction or strava? i've often noticed that strava reports elevation gain about 10% higher than garmin, for data recorded on the garmin.
in a way, i'd trust strava more if it's doing a correction, as elevation in GPS is so inaccurate; strava may be matching the ride to actual map data rather than raw GPS data. that said, if their map data is based on elevation from those same GPS devices, who can we trust?

This would be the Strava correction, always increases the Garmin figure but opposite for the Wahoo.

magicbastarder · 01-08-2019 12:17PM

another irritating thing about strava is that there's no adjusting for elevation on a segment after it's been created. so if there's a glitch in GPS in the data used to create the segment, it stays there; i've seen several segments which look bananas on strava, but there's no comparison with data of everyone else who's cycled that segment to sanity test it.

ED E · 01-08-2019 05:03PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

another irritating thing about strava is that there's no adjusting for elevation on a segment after it's been created. so if there's a glitch in GPS in the data used to create the segment, it stays there; i've seen several segments which look bananas on strava, but there's no comparison with data of everyone else who's cycled that segment to sanity test it.

Its one of the many long standing flaws that they refuse to work on. Strava is really **** but moving away is like trying to get your mates to go back to MySpace from facebook.

magicbastarder · 01-08-2019 05:23PM

ED E wrote: »

Strava is really ****

why so?
i subscribe, happy to subscribe even if there are things i wish they'd fix.

ED E · 01-08-2019 05:27PM

Apparently they've as staff of 250 but do zero work on the product.

I cant remember all the years old flaws but just some:
- Max speed is straight wrong
- Bad data cannot be fixed
- 200kph runs are not auto flagged
- Runners have this auto pausing issue (dont run myself) thats been driving them nuts for years

There's speculation its under skeleton crewing awaiting a buyout. Everything is done for Summit but nothing for the core product.

Eoin · 02-08-2019 06:37PM

Last time I cycled was 15 years and about 3 stone ago, but today I collected my new eBike and cycled it from town to Bray. About 30km including a couple of detours.

Type 17 · 02-08-2019 06:38PM

Eoin wrote: »

Last time I cycled was 15 years and about 3 stone ago, but today I collected my new eBike and cycled it from town to Bray. About 30km including a couple of detours.

Welcome back to cycling!

RobertFoster · 02-08-2019 07:12PM

Eoin wrote: »

Last time I cycled was 15 years and about 3 stone ago, but today I collected my new eBike and cycled it from town to Bray. About 30km including a couple of detours.

Have you named the new bike yet?

"Hello Dave? You're my bike now!" :pac:

magicbastarder · 03-08-2019 03:00PM

it's damn muggy out. felt like cycling in soup at times earlier.

03-08-2019 03:52PM

Even with a light breeze there and a few spits of rain it was draining when I was out earlier. Cycling in soup is the perfect description MB.

dahat · 03-08-2019 05:29PM

4hrs solo & steady stuff that became a frustrating first 50km.

2 punctures, lost See Sense light and a panicked search for a bike shop in Cahir to replenish tubes in the saddle bag. To add to this the hot and wet weather I was pretty pissed at 50km.

However I kept on with the rest being uneventful with two nice climbs, Vee & Knockboy made the day better.

123km @ 28.7 avg & 1200m of up.

silverharp · 03-08-2019 05:34PM

dublin-enniskerry-laragh-sallygap-glencree-dublin. ~90km humidity seemed high, not much wind which was good.

shaka · 03-08-2019 10:31PM

40 km of struggling today, two weeks of beer, pizza and and lazy ass syndrome saw me struggle today. Will get out again tomorrow

secman · 04-08-2019 09:06AM

Yesterday headed over to Ferns hoping to meet a buddy cycling from Dublin to Wexford town, timed it well, just got there about 4 min ahead of him, gave him a tow from Ferns to Wexford, he was suffering from the headwind all the way down, i heeded back across the old bridge on the road to Gorey. 86 km avg 28.7 kph
Buddy did 145km and avg 28.3kph.

godtabh · 04-08-2019 11:06AM

No puncture in a year and now two in a week. Broke pump fixing today’s puncture and had to call the Broom Wagon

saccades · 04-08-2019 06:35PM

Stupidly went on a climbing spin today.

Halfway up Brown mtn i knew i had dead legs.

Managed sleeve maan and shay elliot but died 15km from home.

Too much, too soon after a big weekend gone.

78km, 1135m climbing at about 2mph.

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