Strava

I think this is right, for example the little route preview you see on the Activity Feed screen won't show any routes taken inside your set privacy zone.

Anyone know why my runs aren't impacting on my freshness and fitness? Record rides and runs with hr monitor and garmin but only riding seems to impact it at the moment. The suffer score is high enough to impact it if they were rides.

F&F only works for cycling activity.

That's a bit shit. Only really use it as a rough idea of where I am (and where I need to be if racing) but I'd like to think running is helping my fitness...

I'd like to think running is helping my fitness...

Keep doing it for 10 years and your joints will hate you.

Swim instead.

Played football for 25 and they still seem fairly compliant. But let's not confuse me with anyone who has any intention of running marathons, entering triathlons or anything silly like that.

I would if it (outdoor swimming excepted) wasn't the dullest form of exercise known to man.

Use StravistiX to include your running suffer score - it's a chrome extension that only works on computer https://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiOyszyz63RAhUFliwKHcpFBb0QFggaMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fchrome.google.com%2Fwebstore%2Fdetail%2Fstravistix-for-strava%2Fdhiaggccakkgdfcadnklkbljcgicpckn%3Fhl%3Den&usg=AFQjCNGXavAJRFu9z8d4UgkSinQqBEp_Zg&sig2=WOaYTNmzESMV1NfLOT3h9Q&bvm=bv.142059868,d.bGg

Perfect, thanks!

Let me know if it works - if not I have a further workaround

I find swimming mentally refreshing, the isolation of the water limits interruption while I think about bike projects.

Yeah that's right.

For reference for anyone who doesn't know:

If you have an issue with elevation data on Strava (because you use a dogshit garmin like me, for example), there's a button when you hover over the question mark by the elevation figure for the ride. The button corrects the data, so it fits to the map.

I have joined Strava.

I have no idea how to use it.

But I am getting a new bike, it will have a power meter, I want to put in a lot more miles, I have a Garmin... and I figure that all this shit must be able to be joined together somehow, and that Strava is the glue to do it.

Strava can be fun, though it can ruin cycling when people only obsess about segments.

I think the new bike and power meter will be a fun learning curve. Power meter basically tells me I am fucking lazy a lot of the time, I can spin a low gear at 90rpm and do neglible work or change a couple of gears and be at ftp.

That's basically been my understanding of Strava, hence not joining.

I want to focus on miles this year. So it's not going to be about segments, just about control of power, comfort, endurance.

I figure when I have the new bike, and new equipment like the power meter that this is a good time to join Strava, consider a joined-up fitness tracking thing.

Besides... my first ride since the hit and run will be Monday morning. So it's a way of tracking recovery and habits too.

Sign up for garmin connect, it still can connect to strava, but as you have a power meter and other sensors on this new bike, I believe it show a more accurate way of analysis your data. Strava is good for general browsing and see who are riding on a social and pro level.

I thought you were against Strava for privacy reasons?

I am against Strava for privacy reasons.

But then, pragmatically it's like being against Gmail for privacy reasons... if everyone else is doing it and you're going on rides with them, etc... then they already are tracking you (you're in all of their uploaded contacts).

They have some data already and yet I have no utility. So I've gone for having a lot of utility in return for giving a fraction more data.

I only have one Windows machine that is a server, and Garmin are generally anti-Linux... so I guess I'll wait until I get the power meter, Di2, etc and then see what I really need to install and configure.

I on other hand hate garmin connect. Golden cheetah is my fav for nerdy power graphs

Cool, for me general browsing to look at the ride, strava is really good at that, however, when I take the road bike out with my PM and HM, IMO it gives me more data to analysis and overlay with. Just something to keep in mind.

Enjoy all this new gadgets, it makes cycling more interesting and quite depressing at times too.

I had to check whether Golden Cheetah was actually the name of a beer.

I think after initial setup you don't ever really need to plug a Bluetooth garmin into a pc except for updates, just pair it with your phone (with the garmin connect app installed) and it'll upload rides to garmin and from there to strava.

I have an 800, I think that's not Bluetooth. Hence I only use it for routing and don't bother recording activities... the Linux support is crappy.

Bluetooth sounds like it would solve this. That and me putting software on my Windows machine.

This man speaks the truth. It's all automatic and seamless. You stop a ride, open the Garmin app and it syncs. You can also have Garmin Connect set up to automatically send rides to Strava. Very simple.