Strava

You're still here though.

I meant strava. All I wanted was a list of my rides. I have no option but to go by month via the chart?

Try "my activities" under "training"

Or Dashboard / Activity Feed / Dropdown - My Activities

Has strava just removed Laps from non-premium?

Sorry if posted elsewhere. Probably the only reason I'd ever be persuaded to even look at Strava:

Cyclist uses Strava to map marriage proposal: http://road.cc/content/news/108319-cyclist-uses-strava-map-marriage-proposal

I have a lame strava CR of 5:39 over 1,4km. I didnt make the segment. But its on most of my runs, so I took it.

Someone just knocked 1:41 off it! on a 27km run averaging 2:32min/km. So obviously a ride. Except hes called it 'lunch run'.

Cheeky cnut.

Feck he holds 36kph for a few minutes too!

The Strava app automatically named it Lunch Run.

Ah......

Hes done this before. Its obviously just a mis - logged ride. But the name pissed me off. Feel slightly bad now....

If he used something like a Garmin Forerunner 110 then it defaults to being a Run (even if you change it to Ride whilst uploading and before hitting Save). It's a Strava bug due to their crap design. I've given up hoping it will ever be fixed.

My Estimated Best Efforts for running are all hosed because of this, even if I make sure I change the activity type to "Ride" before hitting save.

I have to convert any .fit files I did cycling on my Forerunner 110 to .tcx files and manually change "Running" to "Biking" in the file before uploading.

This is why I love my 920xt. It was silly Money. But feckwits like me just need to remember to wear it, Select the right Activity, press start, stop, save, and forget aout all this uploading stuff. The watch does all that whenever I'm in range of my WiFi.

Strava's bugs just makes it 100 times worse than it needs to be.

I have to attach my Forerunner to the clip to charge it anyway, so wireless uploads aren't a huge time saver; and with a spare hour I could write something to automatically detect the watch has been attached, spot new activities in the associated directory, post process them and then upload the file to Strava.

I'll almost certainly eventually get something like the 920xt as my adventures into slvlss become more serious.

It doesnt need charging that much.

I think its Perfect as a run watch, and as a swim watch. The only question mark is whether the screen offers enough real estate for Your bike use. Its plenty for me.

I always used to say that my 910xt was my best training Investment. Basically because it idiot proofed training data logging for me. So i had Strava data etc. at hand, to help keep me motivated, and Train more. This is just a Whole New Level in that respect. I want simple when I'm training and super complex when I'm browsing later.

The only question mark is whether the screen offers enough real estate for Your bike use.

For a race, yes. I'd probably only want to see total distance, elapsed time and 3s avg power.

But for all my use cases, no. There can never be one device to suit all my requirements given two are mutually exclusive:-

• small enough to wear on wrist for swimming/running (and I even wear it for 5-a-side)
  
• large enough for navigating on Audaxes
  
  

At the moment an Edge 705 + Forerunner 110 does me fine[1] and, as I said, I'm sure the latter could be upgraded to a 920xt but that's £££ better off used elsewhere at the moment.

1. I don't use the Forerunner 110 for swimming. My local pool has Swimtag so I get my swimming data from that. If that goes (or I start swimming somewhere where that isn't available) then it's another reason to go for something like the 920xt.
   
   

Anyway, Garmin thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I have to convert any .fit files I did cycling on my Forerunner 110 to .tcx files and manually change "Running" to "Biking" in the file before uploading.

You can change the activity type on Strava, surely?

Yes, but by then it's fucked my Running Estimated Best Efforts. Even if I change the activity type to "Ride" before hitting save.

Premium member, support issue raised. "Sounds similar to an existing bug we're trying to fix" and case closed. Not fixed yet (over a month since I first raised it).

Support also suggested a number of stupid workarounds.

Have you tried changing the activity type to "Ride" within 5 minutes of uploading it? Of course, didn't help.

Have you tried marking it as private, changing the activity type to "Ride", saving it, then unmarking it as private? Yes, still didn't help.

Their problem is that uploading a file kicks off a whole load of automation in the back end before you even get a chance to change the activity type, but by considering it a run it flags it internally as being too fast and blocks the estimated best effort calculations. And then subsequently changing the activity type (no matter how quickly or slowly) doesn't undo what it's flagged as bad.

Even now, since uploading a recent 10k run I've still only got Estimated Best Efforts for 1k and 1 mile.

I can manually raise a ticket to fix it but that gets boring, I just wrote my own scripts to parse the .tcx files and calculate it myself.

Useless shite.

Flag his activity as "in a vehicle", fuck him.

It was a ride. Pretty slow one at that. Not sure why I care. Its a silly segment that anyone on a proper run will only cruise.

I seem to be in a fight with a group of local hill runners. Much more fun. Even if I can't beat any of them. Proper segments.

Flag his activity as "in a vehicle", fuck him.

So. I've not used my Garmin 800/Road bike since last autumn (Canadian winters). Did my first ride worth recording at the weekend.

It seems since I last used it, Strava have added syncing to Garmin Connect, and stopped browser support for Communicator, to directly sync from the device in the browser.

I just spent 30 minutes installing the new Garmin Express, upgrading the firmware, setting up the account, syncing to GC, and finally got the Strava/GC sync setup. But then got impatient, and just uploaded the .FIT file directly.

I understand in theory, I can just plug in my Garmin, it will get automatically synced to GC, then from there to Strava. But given that I probably only will have a few activities a week, is it really worth it all, rather than manually uploading?

Are there any issues with the sync (will it select the right activity type, etc). And I don't really want all my data on yet another site.

Opinions?

My 2 cents: I never use GC, no added value and generally bad UI. Manual upload from my 800 & just Strava (and veloviewer) to analyse and keep track works fine for me. I don't even back up my rides on another storage device anymore. I do keep a folder with bookmarks of favourite rides in Strava in my browser.

"Do you race"
"Yeah, on Strava"
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Thanks. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Who are these weirdos who give me kudos for a 1.5 mile trip to the shops?