Strava

I was thinking the same. Or just moron.

Guns don't kill people.

All terrorists and paedophiles drink water.

Ban water - It kills people and bums kids.

I want to go here:

Alto de Letras

@TW
Remember Trollstigen.
My last repeat.
The 'far too long to make it' Coach stuck at a switchback.
Me directing it to drive with its outer wheels dangling over the drainage ditch on the inside of the switchback.
Mainly so I could squish past to continue my PB attempt.

Strava = serious business.

Although urban strava segments are a bit lame. Running folk Down is always going to add time.

I wanna smash your 108km/h on Croix de Fer - I've only ever got a 99km/h on this segment.

113km/h sounds like a nice number.

Ha.

Its a long, striaght, steep, descent. But I was only going around 75-80kph.

I had no rubber on my tyres, and was running trashed Budget brake pads with my OEM crabon Wheels. Had the braking distance and Control of an elephant on roller blades.

I dont run a speed sensor any more so strava gets excited.

yes 😱

Its a long, striaght, steep, descent.

The Gries im Sellrain segment is 1km straight - 13ish % overall, but dips to 19 / 20% at one point, helping you to accelerate up to mad speedz and smash out 100km/h for 36 seconds pretty easily

My commute included some red-graded trail this morning and was mostly traffic-free. Much grin.

Suppose the local hospital facilities are first class?

@gabes I don't think the article was blaming Strava, it was just highlighting the mind-set of some people who get caught up with beating PB's as a result of using Strava

@amey yeah I know but that's how it is

I can be your friend ..

thanks x

Strava didn't invent excess, fast riding or riding against the clock. It didn't invent miss judging risk or crashing either.

Whether it's wise to have cycling segments in places like Central Park is another issue. It's just a viewable, timed GPS trace but while it might not be encouraging law-breaking it is recording it and sticking it in a leaderboard.

So I realised today you can download a cue sheet to a phone or print. It works pretty well and is nicely formated as a tidy backup for long rides.

There is a link at the bottom of the screen for selecting which Garmin file type you're after.

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See the link ^ there in blue...

Is there a really good feature of Strava Premium that I'm missing?

Signed up for the Free month trial of Premium. Will be cancelling before I end up paying.

Simply can't find any reason to keep it.

How about paying for something you find useful?

I don't find the Premium membership particularly useful myself, but as someone who has made a career out of developing software I think paying less than £1 a week to help fund a tool I find very useful is worthwhile.

I actually agree With this.
I use training peaks for all my geeky MAMIL needs.
But strava has made me faster than any post exercise geekery. By simply giving that little nudge I need to do proper intervals. Especially for running.

I completely disagree with this. Strava is a billion dollar business. They should earn your money.

They're not a tin-pot startup anymore.

Why did they get an additional $18.5 million in funding just over a month ago then?

http://recode.net/2014/10/29/cycling-centric-fitness-app-strava-raises-18-5-million-in-venture-capital-funding/

Because they need to buy a box big enough to put their billions in.

Its a pretty cheap Subscription.

Do they sell any of that naff looking kit?

How about paying for something you find useful?

That's the point, I don't find much use in what Premium gives me on top of free, so I won't pay for it. If they dumped the free account I'd ditch it all together. It's the joy of a Freemium model.

I'm with Señor_Bear on Strava anyway. Their revenues are in the $100m+ range which, with those funding rounds, puts a $1bn+ valuation on them with just ~100 employees. I wouldn't be funding a proper meal for them, I'd be helping fund the marble floors in their second/third homes up by Lake Tahoe.