What is strava ?

www.google.com and put strava in...... You will be taken here http://www.strava.com/

Where if you look around enough, you will find this

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=strava

Strava is a way of life.

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Its a freckin addictive way of riding with and against your peers.

So much so that when it fails to record just a few miles of your route and therefore not record a single mile of your route, you feel like smacking someone in the face due to the miles you suffered and efforts you made over segments, not being recorded.

It's a way of making your commute into a series of races, regardless of how sensible an idea that is...

I only started on it yesterday and i am itching to upload my next one.

Facebook on wheels. Kinda.

A word with no apparent anagram.

What Strava achieves, that no other site or app does, is to gamify the experience of training and riding with your mates. By creating leaderboards of defined segments, it's a fantastic motivational tool. You'll find yourself pushing harder to beat your previous best times up certain hills, and to actually claim the KOM on well travelled segments is quite rewarding.

Here's a blog post I wrote about the whole gamification aspect of Strava -
http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/2012/04/strava-the-gamification-of-cycling/

(there are quite a few more strava related articles on the site too, which might be of interest to Stravanauts!

It lets you be a kid again. I remember racing my friends through arbitrary checkpoints, i.e. "first one past that speed limit sign wins". Now I'd still like to do that from time to time, except I have no friends. Enter Strava.

Now I understand.

Thanks for the pointers

Should of Googled it, then I would have seen

I just thought it was forum speak

Many thnaks

Thnaks to you to