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  • May 21, 2014 at 11:57 am #21491
    bfslxo

    Last week I got that bloody awful crown logo on my phone from Strava! you know exactly the one that goes ‘Uh OH! You have lost your KOM’ ahh not yet another – oh f@@k off!

    About 2/3 hours later after much deliberating I deleted my account & then just to be sure logged into my old (pre-Strava) mapmyride account & wiped it too – all trace of active bike history gone! El Teide rides, east coast Tenerife gone, Scottish trip gone, sportives & a reasonable handful of (remaining) KOM’s gone & most importantly to me a simple record of the number of miles several years cycling gone… why?

    Ok so I’ve not been having a great year fitness wise, not been ill or injured enough to be off the bike but since the turn of the year I just am not as fit as I was last year & can’t seem to find the reason.

    Losing the jewel in my crown of ‘KOM’s an 16:08 min tricky uphill with the next best placed time being 17:22 & having a good number of people tried it was too much for me to bear – I’m been on super form the day I got it, it had stood since July last year but this on the back of losing several in the last two months odd was too much for me to take, I probably acted irrationally, in fact I’m pretty sure I did but I considered my pending action for a few hours before I struck – I wanted to be sure & tbh do I miss little snippets of information like actually knowing how far I’ve gone, yes, what my average was or elevation, yes, am I really that bothered… NO I’m glad I have done it, ok I don’t regularly cycle with a good few of the people I followed & who followed me so I’ll not be able to ‘Kudos’ them on their antics but the whole thing was just getting to me.

    I miss watching my ever increasing overall mileage, that in itself gave me a little sense of pride in myself but I don’t plan to go back, I intend to ride my bike, before I had any tracking my body knew when I was going fast or hard or far for long periods because err I couldn’t breathe, my legs hurt A LOT the bloody great big hill in front was well yeh..in front of me! I didn’t need anything to tell me these details my inbuilt monitor told me these things & that’s where I’m going back too, old school you may call it, out of touch others may call it, I don’t race so I don’t necessarily need to be aware of finite information but that’s where I am now, it’s taking a bit of getting used too again but so far I’m liking the effect, I just I can hold out when I see Mont Ventoux in front of me later this summer..

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  • August 22, 2014 at 11:20 pm #795053
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    J90

    I think most people use it
    I think most people use it like a sane, normal person – i.e. not risking injury/death to get a virtual achievement that doesn’t mean anything.

    I use it to compare myself with me and sometimes with riders from my club, not in any way seriously, that would be silly, I can’t climb out of bed for a start.
    I’m interested in average pace and mileage on my rides, also the total mileage ridden for the year, that’s pretty much it.

    If I heard anybody shouting about Strava or segments whilst out riding, and it wasn’t in jest, I would rip into them and maybe just do a little bit of gentle safe blocking to fuck up their rhythm and if they threw any insults my way, I’d kindly remind them that they’re trying to get a pretend virtual crown on an app, that means fuck all.

    The people who clearly go segment hunting on rides are properly tragic, they plan their route around which segments they want to try to take and then they go hard as they can on the segments and then have a slow average speed till the next one and then repeat the process through the ride, just aim for a decent average pace and whatever segments you take in so be it, don’t plan your rides around them, jeez. To me these people don’t understand what cycling is about and are probably new to it.

    Can’t say I’ve heard of any of these Strava obsessed idiots around the North though…..damn Southerners 🙂

    August 22, 2014 at 10:07 pm #795051
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    Ghedebrav

    Stanley wrote:what is

    Stanley wrote:
    what is strava

    It’s what happens when folk stop using OS maps to navigate, i.e. the first step toward the fall of civilisation as we know it.

    August 22, 2014 at 6:55 pm #795049
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    middleagedmoaner

    “STRAVA!” behind us and as
    “STRAVA!” behind us and as the group passed us we got an additional “GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY! WE’RE ON A SEGMENT!”

    It’s really quite difficult to express my complete contempt for this sort of attitude (assuming that the account is reliable). I had recently considered finding out a bit more about Strava with a view to going on it, but certainly won’t bother now. None of us own the road. Cyclists have enough opponents without selfish and arrogant k..bbers like these in our own ranks. I’ll stick with my little wireless computer, and take my pulse at the top of Box Hill if I get the urge…

    August 22, 2014 at 9:49 am #795047
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    bamilton wackademical

    I use Strava to compete
    I use Strava to compete against myself. Life’s too short to make every ride a competition against other cyclists.

    August 15, 2014 at 8:01 am #795045
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    andy2204

    levermonkey wrote:we heard

    levermonkey wrote:
    we heard the dreaded bellow of “STRAVA!” behind us and as the group passed us we got an additional “GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY! WE’RE ON A SEGMENT!”

    I can’t say that I’ve ever had this happen, but I can believe that people would, given how seriously some appear to take it. I do use Strava, along side Endomondo, but find the most useful thing is that I can import the data into veloviewer, as this gives me a better view on the data. Yes, I’m a stat freak, but for me, it’s about comparing personal performances rather than KOM’s.

    August 14, 2014 at 11:00 pm #795043
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    cbrookes75

    I use Strava, I only
    I use Strava, I only discovered it a couple of months ago, for me, a stat freak I love it! It is, to the best of my knowledge real people on real bikes in real time to “compete” against, if, that is if you like. If you don’t like you can just be private, I have learned that the wind makes an awful difference to my performance. I have learned an awful lot besides from Strava. But I have only been cycling a couple of months. As for being “on a segment” or such I am a responsible cyclist and understand I share the roads, canals and cycle paths with other users and nothing narks me more than a selfish arrogant irresponsible cyclist! Especially now that I am one!! Anyway point is, I love Strava, it works for me and long may it continue! Kudos to you all!

    August 14, 2014 at 9:52 pm #795041
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    Jammy

    levermonkey wrote:…. we

    levermonkey wrote:
    …. we heard the dreaded bellow of “STRAVA!” behind us and as the group passed us we got an additional “GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY! WE’RE ON A SEGMENT!”

    Our enjoyment of a perfect cycling day was wrecked. I accept that all Strava users are not the same but you will forgive me if I allow experience to colour my judgement.

    That is a total abomination… I’m dumbfounded… It smacks of the arrogance of roadies that the public often spout about.

    Very sad!

    August 14, 2014 at 1:45 pm #795039
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    Stanley

    what is strava
    what is strava

    August 14, 2014 at 12:06 pm #795037
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    Leviathan

    Jimmy Ray Will wrote:I have a

    Jimmy Ray Will wrote:
    I have a mate who is genuinely one of the best climbers out there… he refuses to put his best rides on Strava as he doesn’t want to ruin it for everyone else… the point being, its all a bit of fun and completely pointless… enjoy it for that.

    He should just post them, from what I’ve seen the best climbs have already been bagged by Pros. Simon Yates has the best time on my local Brickworks climb (he’s only about 2 1/2 to 3 times quicker than me.) Tell him not to be so coy about his achievements unless he is scarred of making himself a target. [Leaves that one there and backs away slowly.]

    August 14, 2014 at 11:37 am #795035
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    Jimmy Ray Will

    For me half the fun of Strava
    For me half the fun of Strava is the pointlessness of it all.

    There is one segment that I keep trying to get, but because its on a shared use cycle path its realistically never going to happen… I will always slow down if there are other users on the path.

    That to me makes it all the more fun… getting the KOM is not a physical challenge, its a environmental one… will I ever get presented with a clear run and ideally tailwind on the same day as good legs and a competitive mind?

    Taking it seriously is always going to ruin the fun for everyone.

    I have a mate who is genuinely one of the best climbers out there… he refuses to put his best rides on Strava as he doesn’t want to ruin it for everyone else… the point being, its all a bit of fun and completely pointless… enjoy it for that.

    August 14, 2014 at 11:37 am #795033
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    Jimmy Ray Will

    For me half the fun of Strava
    For me half the fun of Strava is the pointlessness of it all.

    There is one segment that I keep trying to get, but because its on a shared use cycle path its realistically never going to happen… I will always slow down if there are other users on the path.

    That to me makes it all the more fun… getting the KOM is not a physical challenge, its a environmental one… will I ever get presented with a clear run and ideally tailwind on the same day as good legs and a competitive mind?

    Taking it seriously is always going to ruin the fun for everyone.

    I have a mate who is genuinely one of the best climbers out there… he refuses to put his best rides on Strava as he doesn’t want to ruin it for everyone else… the point being, its all a bit of fun and completely pointless… enjoy it for that.

    August 14, 2014 at 11:34 am #795031
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    KirinChris

    Every Strava account should
    Every Strava account should have a sign up term you have to agree to:

    “Sic transit gloria mundi”

    August 14, 2014 at 11:13 am #795029
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    truffy

    I need a GPS?
    I need a GPS? 🙁

    August 14, 2014 at 11:04 am #795027
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    DaveE128

    IMHO deleting your entire
    IMHO deleting your entire ride history (including non-Strava sites) over a lost KoM sounds rather like one massive tantrum to me. I guess if it made you feel better for a bit… 8} I can understand not wanting to be ranked in rider boards, but I’d miss my riding history stats.

    About the idiots shouting at other riders… with character like that, perhaps if it weren’t for Strava they’d be racing around in their Audis instead and trying to push us off the road? It must be tempting to wobble into the way of such cyclists a little 😉 Thankfully I have never come across such rudeness from other cyclists.

    I enjoy Strava and it’s great fun for friendly banter, but you really have to remember not to take it too seriously. After all, unless you are seriously fit, if you have a KoM it’s because you happened to try harder on a random hill than anyone else using Strava happens to have and/or you had a nice tailwind and/or you got lucky with the GPS errors. I include all my few KoMs in this category. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy getting them though. But I know it’s just a bit of fun.

    As for why not go enter a race or a TT? Maybe many of us just don’t take being competative all that seriously?

    August 14, 2014 at 9:49 am #795025
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    dave atkinson

    on the exmouth exodus we ran
    on the exmouth exodus we ran into exmouth in the midst of the arse end of hurricane bertha. true to form, at 7am on a sunday there was a bloke in full TT getup trying to bag the segments across Woodbury common 🙂

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