Freezing Saddles Scoreboard backend "soft launch"

[americancyclo]

@Rod Smith 74648 wrote:

If I ride a lap that starts and finishes on the channel side I’ll get zilch if you use the segment that begins and ends on the river side.

Aren’t we supposed to be encouraging people to ride just a bit further :p

So this means that I can come in on the DC side, leave on the VA side and continue home, without ever completing a full lap.

Awesome!

[americancyclo]

Does anyone else see last initials disappearing and reappearing on the individual text leader board?

[rcannon100]

@Rod Smith 74648 wrote:

Freezing Saddles shouldn’t be biased towards Virginians.

[dkel]

@americancyclo 74679 wrote:

Does anyone else see last initials disappearing and reappearing on the individual text leader board?

I’ve seen this, too. I can’t seem to reproduce the effect at the moment, but I know a page refresh always fixes it when it happens.

[peterw_diy]

@hozn 74677 wrote:

In my experience manual rides just add noise to this data — e.g. many manual rides last year had no specific start time, so they had to be excluded from questions like “rides after 10pm and before 2am” (they were all marked as being at midnight

That’s user error — Strava.com’s manual upload UI defaults to midnight. Strava.com won’t accept any activity without start and end times (the manual UI demands start date, start time, and duration).

Strava.com also requires a textual location and seems to default to the athlete’s home address, so it could/should already have an approximate geocoordinate for the start (I recall the athlete profile editing UI showing signs of using geocoding to validate the profile textual address).

[consularrider]

@creadinger 74646 wrote:

And guess where I saw a fox, not more than 1 hour ago? Near the restrooms halfway up the Potomac side. Wow, great timing for your post!

Of course last night the fox was crossing the road as it turns near the tip of Hains Point.

[hozn]

@americancyclo 74679 wrote:

Does anyone else see last initials disappearing and reappearing on the individual text leader board?

Ha, that’s funny. I assume this is because the “disambiguation” routine (that decides that “Chris R” should be “Chris Re” or “Chris Ra” happens after the athlete sync). You’re probably catching it after it has populated the athletes, but before it has fixed the display names.

Now that things have settled down a bit (and people aren’t signing up every few minutes), I’m going to change the athlete sync to run less frequently — maybe daily.

[consularrider]

Interesting to see that Team 2 Sloppy Seconds is one point ahead of Team 9 from Outer Space and Lucky 7 Samuri Sandbags is just 51 points back. I think it’s great that two weeks into the fun we have such close numbers.

[dkel]

@consularrider 74690 wrote:

Interesting to see that Team 2 Sloppy Seconds is one point ahead of Team 9 from Outer Space and Lucky 7 Samuri Sandbags is just 51 points back. I think it’s great that two weeks into the fun we have such close numbers.

I agree (except I’d rather see TEAM 7 on top all the time!).

[Vicegrip]

Also is showing that he number of active riders per team and rides is as important as miles. (Duh)

[americancyclo]

@hozn 74687 wrote:

Ha, that’s funny.
Now that things have settled down a bit (and people aren’t signing up every few minutes), I’m going to change the athlete sync to run less frequently — maybe daily.

I got all excited about my spot on the leaderboard, and then I remembered I wasn’t the only Shawn. and also that he rides farther and more frequently than I do. and that I melt in the rain.

[Rod Smith]

@americancyclo 74678 wrote:

Aren’t we supposed to be encouraging people to ride just a bit further :p

So this means that I can come in on the DC side, leave on the VA side and continue home, without ever completing a full lap.

Awesome!

..or if Matt from Real Courier calls while you’re spinning your wheels going nowhere and asks if you can haul two boxes from 900 7th to FEC on a rush, you can jump on the access road to 395 take the sidewalk over the Case Bridge to L’Enfant Plaza to Independence to 7th, knock it out, then haul butt to State for your 3pm double rush sched and get there with seconds to spare.

[Subby]

@peterw_diy 74672 wrote:

Of course this doesn’t work for those of us using manual data entry. IMO it would be nice if I could tag a manual ride with rough geo data like #zip22314 to have bafs properly pull atmospheric data. FWIW I am now pretty much only using the phone app if it’s a non-standard route and I therefore don’t know what the mileage will be. Or a #kidical hill. Otherwise especially when it’s really cold, it’s not worth the trouble of fumbling with my phone, and I just use the annoying Strava manual upload feature when I have a couple spare minutes.

Thanks for all your work.

I put on my left hand glove, then start strava, then put my phone in my back pocket, then put on my right hand glove, then ride.

Way easier than manual data entry.

[dkel]

I put on both gloves, then start my phone and Strava with my nose. Yes, I trained my iPhone 5s to recognize my nose print.

Ok, not really.

[cvcalhoun]

I don’t typically need to use my phone for entering rides, since I have a Garmin. However, when I have needed to use the phone for that purpose, I’ve put it in a cradle that attaches to my handlebars. That way I can use it for:

• Entering rides.
• GPS navigation.
• Knowing when my phone is ringing, so I can pull over and answer it.
• Seeing when text messages and e-mails come in, so I can check them at the next stop.

The one I use is the Delta Smartphone Holder, but similar holders are available for other types of phones.

@Subby 74781 wrote:

I put on my left hand glove, then start strava, then put my phone in my back pocket, then put on my right hand glove, then ride.

Way easier than manual data entry.

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