Strava..... For dummies

[flat29]

like this

[flat29]

like this????

[rouxtjie]

Whahaha...I say nothing

[dre]

On a more serious'er note. I think my STRAVA is broken. I do a normal chilled ride from Camps Bay to (almost) bottom of Chappies on Noordhoek side and back, and my total ascent is 2200m. Now that can't be right. Thats a lot for a 45km ride. It does this every time (Strava phone app). Is it the mountains/cliffs that's buggering with my phone's/stravas altitude meter or is there something wrong with my phone? When I ride with my phone and a Bryton, the bryton for example will show total ascent of 700m and my Strava (on the phone app) will show about 1700m climbing.

Anyone had similar experiences?

[porqui]

Not broken - but seems things have changed - it now ADDS the up and downs.

If you go up 500m and down 500m result will be 1000m in the past it added the ups only which makes more sense to me.

[Woofie]

  On 2/18/2014 at 9:30 AM, dre said:

On a more serious'er note. I think my STRAVA is broken. I do a normal chilled ride from Camps Bay to (almost) bottom of Chappies on Noordhoek side and back, and my total ascent is 2200m. Now that can't be right. Thats a lot for a 45km ride. It does this every time (Strava phone app). Is it the mountains/cliffs that's buggering with my phone's/stravas altitude meter or is there something wrong with my phone? When I ride with my phone and a Bryton, the bryton for example will show total ascent of 700m and my Strava (on the phone app) will show about 1700m climbing.

Anyone had similar experiences?

Yes

The GPS data for chappies is a bit wonky.

At some point strava thinks that you have climbed up to the top of the mountain and back down giving you huge elevation gains.

The barometers on the top end devices are still more accurate.

[dre]

  On 2/18/2014 at 9:54 AM, Woofie said:

Yes

The GPS data for chappies is a bit wonky.

At some point strava thinks that you have climbed up to the top of the mountain and back down giving you huge elevation gains.

The barometers on the top end devices are still more accurate.

 

Thanks and thanks. Guess I'll start downloading my gps data onto strava. Or just keep bragging about my immense elevation gains.

[cape]

  On 2/18/2014 at 2:27 AM, usxorf said:

Upload your rides from strava to veloviewer.com, they have a chart called wheel which shows a map of activities.

Thanks usxorf!

 

  On 2/18/2014 at 5:27 AM, agteros said:

That is very far away from (the) cape...

[jcza]

  On 2/18/2014 at 9:54 AM, Woofie said:

Yes

The GPS data for chappies is a bit wonky.

At some point strava thinks that you have climbed up to the top of the mountain and back down giving you huge elevation gains.

The barometers on the top end devices are still more accurate.

 

Yip saw the same thing with Argus last year. Mailed friendly folk at strava and they recalculated it.

[martinsnyman]

  On 12/13/2012 at 4:06 PM, lapa said:

I got some random readings on strava for my ride over the weekend. Recorded the ride with my Bryton GPS, but when uploaded to Strava the ride time is incorrect. On Brytons website its correct. I did flag the ride, as my average speed according to Strava was 58kmph through Northern Farms.

Same thing happened to a mate of mine, we did the same route at Northern farms, he got a completely different time and distance, mine was correct and we were riding together? Edited February 18, 2014 by martinsnyman

[marko35s]

  On 2/18/2014 at 9:42 AM, porqui said:

Not broken - but seems things have changed - it now ADDS the up and downs.

If you go up 500m and down 500m result will be 1000m in the past it added the ups only which makes more sense to me.

I got that on a ride down from Silvermine to Tokai, app showed over 600m elevation gain.

[T-Bob]

  On 12/13/2012 at 2:12 PM, rattlesnake said:

Why? Because you screw up the leader boards on every climb that you have driven.

 

Rant off, thank you.

 

It's pretty obvious if that has happened so you just report the ride, it gets canned, normal service resumes. If it's too much 'effort' to flag then it isn't that big a deal.

 

Real effort is going through all of the people who have beaten you / are above you and checking if they digitally epo'd... that one place means *everything*.... not that I've done that. Nope. Not once. Ever.

Edited February 18, 2014 by hellocolour

[MTBc]

  On 12/13/2012 at 2:18 PM, rattlesnake said:

Flagging takes effort, get notification emails almost daily lately of lost KOM,s to guys going up 7% gradient climbs at 80km/hr!

 

This happens to me too... annually....

[mtbsmurf]

Whats the issue with guys registering on Strava as female yet clearly a male (verified by checking on the SAS site where he is classified male Vet).

 

Cant be a mistake, would think you would realize something is wrong when you are getting QUEEN of the mountain etc.

[Skubarra]

  On 2/19/2014 at 11:59 AM, mtbsmurf said:

Whats the issue with guys registering on Strava as female yet clearly a male (verified by checking on the SAS site where he is classified male Vet).

 

Cant be a mistake, would think you would realize something is wrong when you are getting QUEEN of the mountain etc.

 

Haha!! Seriously.... How low would people stoop... Much easier to do digital EPO

[Woofie]

  On 2/19/2014 at 11:59 AM, mtbsmurf said:

...realize something is wrong when you are getting QUEEN of the mountain etc.

 

maybe thats how he rolls...