Strava Rivalry?

[Greenbelt]

After our trail ride this morning, we went out into the farms — I had a chance to draft some truly fast guys (Curtis and Chris) for a bit. What fun!

Is that sort of cheating to ride with a team? Probably! Do I care? Not so much…

http://app.strava.com/rides/13354680#240317041

[eminva]

@Greenbelt 25257 wrote:

After our trail ride this morning, we went out into the farms — I had a chance to draft some truly fast guys (Curtis and Chris) for a bit. What fun!

Is that sort of cheating to ride with a team? Probably! Do I care? Not so much…

http://app.strava.com/rides/13354680#240317041

I suspect a lot of Strava achievements are not the work of a single individual going it alone. I’m not sure there is any expectation or etiquette, but I could be wrong. Maybe that will develop over time.

Liz

[vvill]

I don’t think anyone cares too much about how you get the times since it’s basically Cat 6 stuff anyway A lot of my best times are on group rides where there’s extra motivation and often drafting. I once saw a serious looking racer type being motorpaced by a van at Hains Pt. Seemed kind of pointless.

[creadinger]

Why does Strava say that on July 13th, Dirt joined me on my commute home? Did I have a very inconspicuous drafter behind me?

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PS – I have tomorrow off and was planning a 100 miler but with the forecast I may just do laps of the Arlington Loop to test out my new Garmin 200! Yay!

[KelOnWheels]

@creadinger 25854 wrote:

Why does Strava say that on July 13th, Dirt joined me on my commute home? Did I have a very inconspicuous drafter behind me?

Dirt is like the Force. He is with you always.

[vvill]

@creadinger 25854 wrote:

Why does Strava say that on July 13th, Dirt joined me on my commute home? Did I have a very inconspicuous drafter behind me?

If you click through his name from the “Ridden by XYZ and 1 other” link you’ll be able to see their ride and where they overlapped.

[GuyContinental]

@vvill 25904 wrote:

If you click through his name from the “Ridden by XYZ and 1 other” link you’ll be able to see their ride and where they overlapped.

This happened to me recently as well (“with 2 others”) I couldn’t figure out the overlap function and I sure as heck didn’t see two other riders at my pace either in front or behind me.

[vvill]

It’s one of my favourite features on Strava that if you happen to ride with/close to someone else who also uses Strava it shows up. Mostly useful for group rides, I suppose.

[GuyContinental]

@vvill 25912 wrote:

It’s one of my favourite features on Strava that if you happen to ride with/close to someone else who also uses Strava it shows up. Mostly useful for group rides, I suppose.

In races it’s pretty entertaining- on average I have “and 6 others” at W@W but the relative performance doesn’t often line up with actual race performance because of the variety of recording devices in use.

Ironically, because Strava encourages/forces real names (or abbreviated real names) it might be hard to ID we BA members who’s usernames don’t resemble their actual names (Guy is my middle name) without visiting the BA strava page. Consequently, I dumped my online username in my Strava profile to facilitate connecting with people (I’m lonely on my long & early opposite commute).

[GuyContinental]

And to add perspective- a Strava day on Le Tour:

http://app.strava.com/runs/13899917

819w… wow

[vvill]

@GuyContinental 25919 wrote:

And to add perspective- a Strava day on Le Tour:

http://app.strava.com/runs/13899917

819w… wow

Yeah it’s amazing that even on my best day I couldn’t hit 50% of what the pros do. I’d have to somehow weigh half as much, or double my power output. Well, maybe not that amazing.

[creadinger]

Is there something you can do when Strava really gets your elevation wrong? I rode to work today for the first time with my new Garmin 200 and for some reason it thinks Crystal Drive in Crystal City is 230 ft asl. It’s obviously not that high. I checked the routes in Garmin Connect and there the elevation is 84 feet. Still seems a bit high, but better than 230! Of course, on GarminConnect it had me riding significant distances with negative elevation. This is not Death Valley, although it has felt as hot at times.

[vvill]

For the 500, you can manually set known elevation points. I think when you start a ride, if you are close to it, it will use it as the starting elevation. Not sure if the 200 has the same feature.

[jabberwocky]

@creadinger 26035 wrote:

Is there something you can do when Strava really gets your elevation wrong? I rode to work today for the first time with my new Garmin 200 and for some reason it thinks Crystal Drive in Crystal City is 230 ft asl. It’s obviously not that high. I checked the routes in Garmin Connect and there the elevation is 84 feet. Still seems a bit high, but better than 230! Of course, on GarminConnect it had me riding significant distances with negative elevation. This is not Death Valley, although it has felt as hot at times.

The 200 is an entry-level GPS, and as such does not have the barometric altimeter the Edge 500 and 800 does. Elevation data will tend to be a bit spotty (getting absolute elevation from GPS with consumer GPS chips isn’t always terribly accurate).

[TwoWheelsDC]

@jabberwocky 26075 wrote:

The 200 is an entry-level GPS, and as such does not have the barometric altimeter the Edge 500 and 800 does. Elevation data will tend to be a bit spotty (getting absolute elevation from GPS with consumer GPS chips isn’t always terribly accurate).

I’ve read that letting the GPS sit for a few minutes before getting started can help with the accuracy. I have a 200 and I also used to get the negative elevation numbers, but I haven’t in a while…at least not in Strava. I don’t know if that’s a fix from the Strava side or from the Garmin side (they’ve pushed a few updates in the last couple of months), but I think it’s mostly the websites that have problematic elevation data, since they each spit out wildly different numbers. Endomondo way overestimates, while MapMyRide underestimates. I find Strava to be kinda in the middle, so I go off what it says more than anything else.

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