All Things STRAVA (merged threads)

They have some great features now but I'm not paying for a premium membership till they fix the flagging issue. Hope they figure something out and don't just hope we will all forget. All these needless plugged segments are getting annoying.

 

lame....the segment reads: THIS WAS A GOOD SEGMENT BEFORE THAT DBAG FLAGGED IT

 

What's lame is, I can't read it! LOL

Ahhh....Thanks! I can see it now.

 

How Accurate is Strava

How Accurate is Strava

STRAVA shows the recent Hell ride to be 3700 ft of climbing. http://www.strava.com/activities/92833304
The Bike for Bender site shows it to be 2500 ft. http://www.bikeforbender.com/sart-hell-ride/

It was a tough ride, but 3700'? Can I trust STRAVA recorded on a Galaxy S3?

 

I've compared mine to Garmin users several times and it is pretty close. By the way I did Hell Ride as well and got 3500' of ascent. I climbed SART out to the PO instead of the fire road though.

 

For what it's worth, my Strava showed 2800 ft using my garmin. The rides where I've left my garmin at home and used my iphone instead have been pretty consistent with the same routes recorded with the garmin. They're usually less precise along the way, but pretty close in distance and climbing.

 

Has anyone used the Zephyr HxM Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor For Android with Strava? What Results have you had? What is the effect on battery life? http://www.zephyranywherestore.com/Zephyr-Bluetooth-Heart-Monitor-Android/dp/B00AI1QO8I

Thanks!

 

Has anyone had a problem with Strava not recognizing you've ridden a segment? For example, there's a segement on the SA river path (paved) that I ride regularly on a club ride. I've ridden that segment six times in the last couple of months, but Strava only recognized the segment twice. At least one of those days that it didn't recognize it would have been a pr (I was attempting - and failing - to draft a friend who got the KOM that day.) Not a big deal, but I am kind of curious why it wouldn't recognize that I rode that segment, when it picked up that segment for others that were riding it at the same time.

 

Strava is not always accurate. It didnt pick it up bc of inaccuracies of either the created segment or your gps/iphone. Strava users who want accuracy must check their segment lines and that will tell the tail of whats going on. A garmin 500+ is far more accurate and consistent than an iphone and especially an android. Anyone having issues with created segments not loading up?..normally it gathers the leaderboard fairly quickly, lately its not even making a leaderboard.

 

Speaking if leaderboards and created segments.....

if you create a segment, does Strava go back to all rides to compile the leaderboard, or does it just start from that day and go forward?


Edit: Nevermind......just saw that it compiles all rides, even retroactive.

 

Strava says the GPS devices with an barometric altimeter (i.e. Garmin 500 and up) are most accurate for elevation. If use a phone Strava runs the track through some elevation database to come up with it (which is usually not too far off in my experience).

Standalone GPS like Garmin is prob most accurate, but my old phone- Droid X2 was pretty good. Just got a new phone HTC something and it's not nearly as accurate, so not all phones are created equal as far as their GPS antenna/accuracy goes.

 

Elevation Accuracy is a combination of:

The Device, the conditions including weather, The application software processing the elevation track data (different algorithms) with or without elevation correction which has several sources.

Devices with Barometric Altimeters tend to be more accurate .... except on long rides where and weather front moves through when the Baro Pressure changes that can have a significant effect.

Elevation Correction can be good or bad, depending on the source data

Algorithms can smooth or interpolate which can have both positive and negative affect...

In general a good Garmin or equivalent with a good piece of software (Strava ... so so) will give decent and consistent results.

 

I've seen a few cases like that or even where 1 ride out of 100 is matched. The problem is that the segment was created with a junk GPS track that is far away from the actual path people take.

 

It ended up gathering the full leaderboard. In the past ones i created would fully load in an hour this particular segment took 12 hours before it had any other people on it. And my bit about accuracy was really more about segment tracks than elevation.

 

Print a Strava (or Geoladders) route?

Maybe this is addressed somewhere in the 43 pages of Strava posts, but I couldn't find it...

Is there an easy way to print a Strava (or Geoladders or Garmin Connect) route? I can take a screenshot but I'm lazy and don't like extra steps.

My reason for doing this is I want to create a three-ring binder of my regular routes so, when I'm going out for a solo ride, I can leave it open to the route I plan on riding. That way my wife knows where I'm riding and about how long I'll be gone. She doesn't ride, so telling her trails or parks won't do her much good. It's never been necessary, but I figure she ought to at least know where to tell the authorities to find me if I fall off the trail while riding on hallucinogenics (what? doesn't everybody do that?).

So, any ideas?

 

Get the ROAD ID app.

 

You mean the one that all the reviews say doesn't work? Don't get me wrong, I love RoadID (everyone in the family has one) and will give the app a try, but there are issues with battery life and, of course, areas with no cell phone coverage. It's probably a great tool for roadies (which sometimes describes me), but has its limitations for MTBers.

I actually didn't know the app existed. RoadID doesn't seem to promote it (no mention on its Web site that I saw). Perhaps because they're still working the bugs out.

 

I mostly ride in CHSP & Anaheim Hills/Santiago Oaks and don't have issues with coverage and use my iPhone running Strava, ROAD ID and music up to four hours and don't use all my battery though it does get low.

 

You could just put a post on facebook. Riding x trail to y trail, then coming back on z trail.

I do that when doing big rides and figure someone will be able to find me based on that info if I never show up again.

 

Tell her the trails! Authorities will know where to look. Interpreting a map can lead to misunderstandings.