Will Local Legends encourage you to record your commute?

Given up on going for anything on Strava, mostly because I think that day has come when your PRs are all in the past. It's been a wasted year for my cycling as I've been squeezed by parenting and old parents and covid, when I have gone out I've been about 2mph down on my averages. Strava is depressing then.

love strava, i like the fact that it records segments.i can pick and choose which parts of the ride i can improve my time and gives me goals to work towards.Love it shows the achievements and i alway get a boost when i see PB's on the board. Love the fact i can check and see im 400th out of 2549,again gives me a boost that im not unfit 50+. I also can see it my fitness levels are going up or down. I love the Active challenges which motovate's me to get out more to complete them.

i dont mind paying for this ,after a good ride i get extra boost from seeing how well im doing against my older and younger peers.

My starva is always on,and if i wanna stop to take in views or photos then i stop and not worry about times. The local legend is something i dont concern myself with.

I record commutes on a Cateye Velo 9, wired old school cyclocomputer. Cost less than a tenner, batteries last years, and turns itself on and off automatically. Survived a fall down the stairwell at work. Gives totals and averages. But can't be uploaded to Strava or anywhere else.

If I ever get a local legend "award" I'll be absolutely devastated, it'll confirm to me that I'm a boring old fart with no imagination 

I've tried Strava for a few months following a 3 month free trial and binned it off. Who gives a toss about being the quickest from the bus stop to the bridge or whatever crap people think they need to compete over. It's marketing bollocks and spoils the actual enjoyment of going out for a ride.

I'm sure many of you will disagree, but Strava isn't the be all and end all.

As long as my times keep reducing for the overall distance that I've ridden I'll know I'm making progress.

I record all my rides and TBH I'm not really bothered if they are on Strava or not.
As long as they are on Garmin (while I'm using Garmin), then that's all I'm bothered about.
I'm not bothered about PRs, medals, segments, KOMs, comparing with anyone else - I couldn't care less that I am 1978 out of 2010 on a segment.
I don't ride to feed numbers; I ride because I've got a wife and four kids and it gets me out of the house for 3 or 4 or 5 hours.
I realise that I might have a slightly contrary view to most of the readership ... but I'm not entirely alone. 
 

All commuting is recorded anyway so I can see what mileage the bike has done.
Really not bothered about being a local legend.

I'm the Local Legend on a running segment.

When Lockdown kicked in I started doing my running at the local business park, because it was pretty much deserted. Twice per week I'd run there and do half a dozen laps, so I've racked up 130 odd efforts on one segment over the last 90 days.

All seems a bit strange to me, I don't really feel like I've achieved anything. I've not been running more often, or further, just always in the same place. But I suppose it's just a bit of fun.

I do record all my runs and rides, so I can see how far I've gone in a year.

If its not on Strava, it didnt happen. I record every ride and I admit that Strava is a big part of my life. 

Between a third and nearly half of my yearly miles are commute miles...not so much this year though but why wouldnt you record them,they all count,one of my friends I saw gained a local legend on a route I didnt think they rode that often so I'm not sure quite how it will work until I see it in action for myself.

I record everything just on general principles, am chasing a completely arbitrary yearly total (have set my eyes on 10000km) but also like to keep track of my hours, I'm prone to silly injuries but also over-enthusiasm so need to be careful not to suddenly start doing 15 hour weeks if I've only been doing 8 hours weeks etc.

What I like about Strava in general as it gives some rides a bit of silly purpose, good if you might otherwise just have been ambling. Try for that local KOM? why not. Do another loop of a local road to try and sneak a local legend? why not. It's all miles and (hopefully) fun.

Same with training, I like trying to do lots of easy base miles at the moment because it's as good as reason as any for that drizzly, early morning circuit of a familiar 1hr loop. Better to get out than stay at home and if 'training' says I need to get out then I'm more likely to do it, and, inevitably, enjoy it.

I record everything - I'm trying (and failing badly!) for 10,000kms so I need every metre!  I went to a mates house to borrow his ebike for my daughter, that got me another 1,000m.

I just looked at the Local Legends near me, I'm hugely behind some people on roads I think I ride a lot, so not sure how much interest it will have for me long term.

Not a commuter but all my rides start from the same place and use the same roads for 3/4 miles until I get to where I can have a choice of routes.

I guess I'll become a legend by default on those initial miles.

I log everything anyway...just because.

I don't quite get this new feature. Isn't cycling more about exploring new routes etc and so on? This rewards people doing the same boring routes every day!!

...which means it'll reward me as that's exactly what I do. But still, feels like they're getting a little desperate to get people to engage with the platform.

Record everything is my choice. It's all distance and I don't do enough. It also helps to check lifetime of consumables as I tend to note a new chain etc.

Not sure about the local legends though. People who commute through the worst weather will do a segment once a day and they're worthy of respect. So there will be a few 65-65 draws (assuming 5 day weeks) on a lot of segments plus a few enthusiasts who game the system and ride around in small loops until the novelty wears off.

I do get it for rural climbs though. One of my friends is already LL on a hilly road I often avoid, so chapeau to her. And when club rides restart I'll be getting dropped on climbs even more often.

I don't have a Garmin. But if I get one I'll not be bothered about recording commutes, even when I'm giving it some beans, only longer rides.