Strava Rivalry?

[creadinger]

0 Watts too: he was just coasting with the weight of the fat bike.

Coasting at roughly half the speed of his terminal velocity. Damn!

Some other dude rode northbound over the Douglass bridge going 45 mph. Hmmm…. The thing is though, that’s not even easy to do in a car. That bridge is scary. All falling apart and stuff, and there’s almost always traffic on it, not to mention the stop light just on the other side of it.

[vvill]

@creadinger 23031 wrote:

Coasting at roughly half the speed of his terminal velocity. Damn!

Just another Dirt superpower.

[DismalScientist]

So, if I want to change my gender with Strava, do I have to
a) be born female,
b) have the necessary operation,
c) feel I am a female trapped in a man’s body, or
d) just have an intense desire to collect a lot of QOMs?

[creadinger]

Woo hoo! I got a KOM today! A couple of PRs and improved my rank in a couple of other segments too.

[KelOnWheels]

Rock! I noticed I’m not all the way at the bottom of the leader board on some segments anymore, that’s exciting

Watch out, roadies! I’m comin’ for ya!

No, keep watching. I’m not there yet. Maybe have a nap or something.

[Greenbelt]

This is slightly tangential to the rivalry discussion, but here’s a self-rivalry observation.

Yesterday morning: calm winds, nice temps, dry roads, no traffic or trail congestion beyond the usual slowdowns for a few joggers and walkers, a couple other bikes: http://app.strava.com/rides/13005103

This morning: same conditions, same bike (the fast one) , same load (light backpack), identical route, except I went normal speed: http://app.strava.com/rides/13093010

So…

The difference between riding hard (hitting 20mph a fair amount of the time on open stretches) and riding normal cruising speed:

==> almost exactly 5 minutes.

So that says a couple things.

First, there’s really no point busting the pace just to save 5 minutes. Second, it’s wonderful to have open trails where you can safely push it up a little just for fun on the occasional awesome morning!

[Tim Kelley]

Only a 1.3 mph difference in average speed. Do you have a lot of stop lights that you have to stop for?

[Greenbelt]

My Strava setup seems to have a nice feature: it drops the time when I’m stopped at lights. So the elapsed commute time is a minute or two longer than the riding time. So it doesn’t really seem to matter to the ride time if I have to wait longer at lights in once commute vs. the next.

Actually it looks like in both commutes I waited a little under 2 minutes at lights, so that was pretty identical too!

[jabberwocky]

I know that on my commute (7 miles, 500ft of climbing so fairly hilly) the difference between a leisurely spin to work and absolutely sprinting at top effort is only 3 minutes or so. Thats moving time only; lights add a lot of randomness to total time.

[mstone]

it’s not necessarily the time spent actually stopped at the lights as much as the time spent slowing/starting/etc at the intersections, in my experience. no matter how hard you push the fast parts, the slow parts are an ever-larger fraction of the total (unless you ride like an ass, of course, and never slow down)

[ShawnoftheDread]

I just signed up for Strava after using mapmyride for the past few months. What’s the etiquette on following people, especially those you only know online?

[KelOnWheels]

@ShawnoftheDread 24898 wrote:

I just signed up for Strava after using mapmyride for the past few months. What’s the etiquette on following people, especially those you only know online?

I just followed everyone in the Bike Arlington club on Strava, I figured that was safe

[consularrider]

I’ve only got a few people following me and of those, I’m not real sure who a couple of them are, probably becasue the Stava name is different from bikearlington web name.

[GuyContinental]

@ShawnoftheDread 24898 wrote:

I just signed up for Strava after using mapmyride for the past few months. What’s the etiquette on following people, especially those you only know online?

There is a privacy setting for approving followers- unless someone has that on I feel that they are up to being followed. Regardless, it might be a good idea to add the .5 mile zone of privacy around your frequently used addresses.. you are after all declaring to the world when you are predictably out of the house…

[Mark Blacknell]

@Greenbelt 24880 wrote:

First, there’s really no point busting the pace just to save 5 minutes.

This point also translates to driving cars! Aside from freeways, I’d quite happily slap on (and enforce) a speed limit of 25 in a dense urban area like ours. Drops pedestrian fatalities significantly, and increases travel time minimally.

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