Strava

[bernsteinl]

Hi all:
I’m doing some research on Strava for a Washington Post column and would like to hear from, and talk to, folks who use the app. Is it popular around here? What are some of the segments that a lot of people compete on? Have there been any problems like the ones in the Bay Area, where people have caused accidents (two of them fatal) pursuing the KOM title for a particular segment? Lots of other questions.

If anyone wants to comment, or leave me an email address or phone number, I’ll follow up.

Thanks,
Lenny Bernstein
MisFits columnist
The Washington Post
202 334-5615
bernsteinl@washpost.com

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[Greenbelt]

This guy’s currently atop the leaderboard on the Strava cycling base miles challenge:

YEAR-TO-DATE
Distance 621.4mi
Time 2hr 51m
Elev Gain 61,608ft
Rides 1

I think he must have accidentally had his Garmin recording when he took an airplane flight!

http://app.strava.com/challenges/cycling-base-mile-blast-2013

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Greenbelt 39579 wrote:

This guy’s currently atop the leaderboard on the Strava cycling base miles challenge:

YEAR-TO-DATE
Distance 621.4mi
Time 2hr 51m
Elev Gain 61,608ft
Rides 1

I think he must have accidentally had his Garmin recording when he took an airplane flight!

http://app.strava.com/challenges/cycling-base-mile-blast-2013

Reminds me of the guy in the NBC who was in first place with like 5 times as many miles as the next person, and who conveniently was entering all his rides manually.

[rcannon100]

@Rod Smith 39497 wrote:

Strava says you can’t claim your bicycle weighs more than 50kg which is fine with me as my working rigs have gross vehicle weights less than 45 kilos but in fact they do not allow bike weight greater than 50 POUNDS! I think this effects the power score Strava calculates for my segment results.

Concerning the power score, I was happy to see I produced the greatest wattage of anyone even though I was generally slowest or nearly slowest on every segment. It seems that if you tell Strava you weigh 190 kilos, you get great power scores. Oops, I meant 190 POUNDS. :p

Huh. Guess I would get great power scores. Not sure I really wanna tell STRAVA how much I weigh. :p

[rcannon100]

Well Pttttthhhh!!!!

Okay, first, STRAVA does not like my GARMIN. I have a GARMIN Oregon 505 which I quite like – but STRAVA only wants the GARMINS specific to cycling or running. I can import the GPX file – but it imported it as a big honking file, as oppose to individual workouts (endomondo imported it as individual workouts).

Second, maps. I think it was Justin that showed a map via STRAVA with all his workouts -everwhere that he had biked. And I was like, cool!. Like, I wanna do that. Like, how? Like!

So plunking around STRAVA – with at least one data dump from my imported GARMIN Oregon GPX file from the last x months, I could not find such a map anywhere. What am I missing. How do I see a map of my workouts?

And any thoughts about not using an edge or a forerunner with Garmin. Between dropping $100+ for a superfluous GPS and just entering stuff manually, I will probably just enter data manually.

Had a really nice hike today too. Came running home to try to import it into STRAVA. And nothing worked.

Well Pttttthhhhh!!!!!

[Rod Smith]

Can you get individual rides GPX files and enter them one at a time now that you have the bulk entered?

The cool program that shows all your rides at once is available here, http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/map.php

[Rod Smith]

@rcannon100 39588 wrote:

Huh. Guess I would get great power scores. Not sure I really wanna tell STRAVA how much I weigh. :p

I suspect it’s less than 190kg! Strava won’t laugh at your weight and she won’t tell anyone how much it is. Enter the data and get credit for the power you’re producing!

[Tim Kelley]

@rcannon100 39647 wrote:

Second, maps. I think it was Justin that showed a map via STRAVA with all his workouts -everwhere that he had biked. And I was like, cool!. Like, I wanna do that. Like, how? Like!

http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/multi-ride-mapper/

Do you have a smart phone? You could enter your rides using their APP.

[rcannon100]

@Rod Smith 39650 wrote:

I suspect it’s less than 190kg! Strava won’t laugh at your weight and she won’t tell anyone how much it is. Enter the data and get credit for the power you’re producing!

Not exactly STRAVA I am worried about (okay, STRAVA is just one among a multitude of data miners)

Who Could Be Watching You Watching Your Figure? Your Boss NPR

The Oregon produced one big GPX file. I wonder if there is a setting or something. I will tell you something – being old – the nice big screen of the Oregon means I can set the screen to basically ADA mode and even with my lousy eyesight read it while riding. Gotta play with it some more.

UPDATE: Okay, I uploaded an individual trip by using GARMIN Basecamp. I had to upload the data from the device to basecamp, select the data, and then save it as a GPX – and then upload that to STRAVA. Ptttttttthhhhh!

[Jason B]

@Greenbelt 39579 wrote:

This guy’s currently atop the leaderboard on the Strava cycling base miles challenge:

YEAR-TO-DATE
Distance 621.4mi
Time 2hr 51m
Elev Gain 61,608ft
Rides 1

I think he must have accidentally had his Garmin recording when he took an airplane flight!

http://app.strava.com/challenges/cycling-base-mile-blast-2013

Actually he was most likely using his iPhone, and if you look in the Strava forum there were probably 700+ posts from the Garmin-Heads calling foul,,, in French no less :p

[KS1G]

@Rod Smith 39648 wrote:

The cool program that shows all your rides at once is available here, http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/map.php

Thanks for the link. I thought it a nice touch that the cumulative map blocks the last 1/2 mile or so around home and other locations you’ve set as private.

I recently discovered a site called veloviewer; it imports Strava records (5-50 at a time) and provides interesting charts & summaries of your activity, KOM status, and a handy “create a picture of your Strava data for your .sig block” Let’s see if I can include it…..rummage…..rummage….rummage….Ah! You can configure the different fields and counts – these are pretty much defaults. I’m not as awesome as the KOM’s imply – both are from my commute (1 much slower “competitor”) and I don’t think most of the other top 50s are from popular segments.

[crysb]

Here’s a recent article in Outside Magazine that touches on several aspects of Strava Cycling: http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/biking/How-Strava-Is-Changing-the-Way-We-Ride.html?page=1

[Bilsko]

Not exactly OT with the OP’s original post, but since this is now the defacto Strava thread, I’ll keep it here:

http://strava-tools.raceshape.com/snap/

Strava SNAP will correct inaccurate gps data – especially for those of us who use phone-based Strava recording. See more at cyclelicious

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