ACF Strava Club

[grantw]

Festive 500 is back again

[deaocy]

+1

[singlespeedscott]

I'm not even going to bother signing up. There is no way in hell I would get a leave pass to actually crank out 500km over the holiday period.

[jasonc]

I'm not even going to bother signing up. There is no way in hell I would get a leave pass to actually crank out 500km over the holiday period.

+1

[macca33]

I'm gonna give it a crack this year.

sent from a MacGalaxy far, far away. ..

[Lukeyboy]

Oh I'll be giving it a crack. A bloody good crack! Need to chase down Jasons total

[g-boaf]

I have one KOM that is on the road near a train line near a MTB track. Every few days someone takes the train out to the MTB track and uses Strava to log their ride and hops back on the train without turning it off. I get the usual KOM message and I always know what it is. I always leave it a few days as most people fix it themselves, but after a few days if it is not gone I flag it. I am all for the competition of someone taking a KOM from me and then trying to get it back, but I have no issue with flagging someone who is obviously not riding a bike.

Lately I seem to be losing lots of segments on the M7 cycle path to people riding on the M7 motorway which is obviously much quicker. I wish there was a way to flag a particular segment of a ride as incorrectly matched. Currently you can only flag the whole ride which is unfair to the rider, so I have to give up on those segments.... or get a TT bike and hit the motorway!

Yeah, I have a few segments like that where I'd like to flag just the segment with a dodgy time, rather than the whole ride. C'mon strava.

Wouldn't mind the ability to upload photos from the ride, post ride without Instagram.

[Xplora]

The "I forgot to turn it off" thing is getting a bit annoying. Feels like Strava should have a "are you sure this is really you?!" button, that allows users to crop their ride if they forget to turn it off. I've actually had 2 epic KOMs in the past week (I'm not going to be humble about them, climbing segments of doom, with massive competition on the ladder) that were registered as 2nd place because a boofhead didn't turn their phone off and didn't fix the ride time. Sorry, I'm not accepting that my anaerobic threshold/max HR effort was outpaced by 20kmh up a 2 minute climb when the rest of your ride was a gentle pootle around some singletrack.

[g-boaf]

One guy recently averaged 321km/h on a segment!

[CXCommuter]

One guy recently averaged 321km/h on a segment!

Another over here in Perth managed a 200m segment in 1 second- that is hauling ass.

[Xplora]

Wow. Just checked the flagged segments on VV... epic sadness I don't know why some of these people are on Strava... so many flagged segments... if you don't like competing, go away. These people would be lining up for a race and then proceeding ride around on their cruiser, whining how fast the opposition is going around the corners

[ldrcycles]

Got a KOM on a slight downhill segment this morning, current KOM is about 52kmh average and I was sitting around 59 absolutely smashing it. But silly me I accidentally hit "clear memory" on the Bryton before starting it for the afternoon commute . Devastated, I mean sure I can have another crack in a day or two but dammit that was hard yakka!

[g-boaf]

Got a KOM on a slight downhill segment this morning, current KOM is about 52kmh average and I was sitting around 59 absolutely smashing it. But silly me I accidentally hit "clear memory" on the Bryton before starting it for the afternoon commute . Devastated, I mean sure I can have another crack in a day or two but dammit that was hard yakka!

I would be too. KOMs in my area are hard to come by. I grabbed one myself today at 52km/h average speed - flat and level. So it took my best imitation of a sprint.

Plenty of racers and a world-champion in this area. When you get even remotely close to his time, you can be quite content with that.

[ldrcycles]

Problem is the real racers do that speed both before and after the segment, not just during it, but I try not to think about that too much .

[g-boaf]

Problem is the real racers do that speed both before and after the segment, not just during it, but I try not to think about that too much .

Oh I know that - believe me. The man is a monster. Track cyclists... The segments are just insane to look at.

[vosadrian]

Wow. Just checked the flagged segments on VV... epic sadness I don't know why some of these people are on Strava... so many flagged segments... if you don't like competing, go away. These people would be lining up for a race and then proceeding ride around on their cruiser, whining how fast the opposition is going around the corners

Yah... that annoys me. I see a need to get rid of dangerous segments... like downhill through lights and blind corners etc. but some segments I see flagged are fantastic roads that are flat with wide verge marked for cyclists. I don't get it. Why join Strava which is competitive by nature and then flag good segments? Only thing I can think of is sour grapes.

[Xplora]

There is just so much to whinge about, and I'm motivated to do so... but my legs are too tired. Also quite happy to see some trophies and even a couple crowns after a couple of new areas for me recently... I'm just about at the point where I'm trying to work out why we're using Strava if we are racing.

[vosadrian]

I have given up on KOM hunting (though I did go and get one that was rightfully mine back this morning!! ). But I still find Strava useful as a tool to track my riding (kms per week, average speeds etc.). I am not going for KOMs as much as PRs these days. KOMs requires me to ride to different areas for new segments, but I am trying to improve my times on known segments that I frequent including a bunch of private segments I have set up just for that purpose. But I am not really into training for the sake of training. I just enjoy riding and enjoy beating PRs, so I keep doing that, and it seems to help with my racing.

[g-boaf]

There is just so much to whinge about, and I'm motivated to do so... but my legs are too tired. Also quite happy to see some trophies and even a couple crowns after a couple of new areas for me recently... I'm just about at the point where I'm trying to work out why we're using Strava if we are racing.

Oh come on now, you used to be one of the biggest proponents of Strava and certainly one of the most dedicated KOM hunters out there. You were into it like mad! You'd give it everything and then some. And unless it was all a big act, you seemed to have fun doing so.

I really don't think you've got anything to complain about.

[vosadrian]

I partially retract my comment above about giving up on KOM hunting. It was windy at lunch and I could not help myself!!

[GeoffInBrisbane]

Oh I'll be giving it a crack. A bloody good crack! Need to chase down Jasons total

Did it last year, not going to bother signing up this year- there is no way I'm doing 300 miles in the freezing rain. See you in 2014, Festive 500...

[Xplora]

There is just so much to whinge about, and I'm motivated to do so... but my legs are too tired. Also quite happy to see some trophies and even a couple crowns after a couple of new areas for me recently... I'm just about at the point where I'm trying to work out why we're using Strava if we are racing.

Oh come on now, you used to be one of the biggest proponents of Strava and certainly one of the most dedicated KOM hunters out there. You were into it like mad! You'd give it everything and then some. And unless it was all a big act, you seemed to have fun doing so.

I really don't think you've got anything to complain about.

Oh it's true... I'm a strava whore, I can't help it. There is something a bit different to the riding I'm doing lately (when it happens), I'm much more focused on the wattage than the nebulous time which may or may not be complete balderdash depending if my Bryton likes me or not

[DTdotcom]

Will prob need closer to 1000km in the last wk of Dec to reach distance goal, so will easily have the Festive covered.
One of my most treasured KOM's is a segment no one else has done lol

[GeoffInBrisbane]

Is it 500 repeats of Mt Gravatt?

[DTdotcom]

Is it 500 repeats of Mt Gravatt?

A few less but yes