Freezing Saddles Scoreboard backend "soft launch"

[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.

[dcv]

I love this chart, reminds me of a star comparsion chart. Hans – can you animate this starting from Jan 1? That would be so cool.

[Rod Smith]

red dwarf

[hozn]

@dcv 74910 wrote:

I love this chart, reminds me of a star comparsion chart. Hans – can you animate this starting from Jan 1? That would be so cool.

Thanks! I love that chart too. In general, I think data visualization is fascinating and appreciated the opportunity to deviate beyond a bar chart for this one I don’t know if Google Charts makes it possible to animate, but I agree that would be awesome. I will look into it.

[Vicegrip]

@dkel 74785 wrote:

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.

I answer my I phone by swiping it with my nose. Too lazy to stop riding and pull a glove off.

[dbb]

@dcv 74910 wrote:

I love this chart, reminds me of a star comparsion chart. Hans – can you animate this starting from Jan 1? That would be so cool.

It appears Dirt should reach the summit of Mt. Everest soon.

[MattAune]

Hans, do you pull daily precipitation totals? A chart for number of riders vs. daily precipitation would be one I would like to see.

[dcv]

Dasgeh, whats going on here?

[Vicegrip]

Been getting high on the bike again?

[MattAune]

http://www.strava.com/activities/105932356

-2,084.3% grade sounds seriously scary. But the 40k feet of elevation gain in .2 miles sounds like an intense climb.

[dbb]

Now that’s a KOM!

[cyclingfool]

This must be what happens when you take a GPS on one of these:

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Which makes me think this activity should have been tagged #NOBAFS.

It’s funny that Strava lets that kind of ridiculous elevation data through w/o question b/c it’s from a unit w/ a barometric altimeter, yet its algorithms decrease my elevation gain over one of my standard AM commute routes of around 7.5 miles to zero. (track from an eTrex 20 track w/o altimeter) I mean, that route is flat, but there are overpasses, bridges, and a couple small hills, like 15th St from the Tidal Basin towards Independence along that route, so gain is certainly not zero. Oddly enough, the exact same route recorded on my phone yields 75-100 ft elevation gain after it’s processed by Strava.

[americancyclo]

@hozn 74930 wrote:

Thanks! I love that chart too. In general, I think data visualization is fascinating and appreciated the opportunity to deviate beyond a bar chart for this one I don’t know if Google Charts makes it possible to animate, but I agree that would be awesome. I will look into it.

Google has motion charts!

[Mikey]

hozn, thanks for all of your hard work.

Not to nit-pick, but I noticed that my score is off 17 days +226 and I have 386 points. Shouldn’t that be 396? Did I screw up an entry somewhere?

[rcannon100]

I think we are going to have to start charging $1 for every request to Honz. We could make him a very rich man.

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