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What's people Strava profiles?

mine: http://app.strava.com/athletes/693634



http://app.strava.com/athletes/710517

My 5 & 10 min power numbers are wacked due to a mtn ride where I got rained on and it temporarily plugged plugged the pressure sensor holes, causing the Garmin to think I rode about 10 miles at 35-45mph on level ground, when I was actually descending.



Strava does weird things with its own power calculations... Very high ratings on descents seems odd...

At least my power numbers look legit! lol
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What's people Strava profiles?

mine: http://app.strava.com/athletes/693634



http://app.strava.com/athletes/710517

My 5 & 10 min power numbers are wacked due to a mtn ride where I got rained on and it temporarily plugged plugged the pressure sensor holes, causing the Garmin to think I rode about 10 miles at 35-45mph on level ground, when I was actually descending.



Strava does weird things with its own power calculations... Very high ratings on descents seems odd...

At least my power numbers look legit! lol



I've seen some odd numbers on Strava on some descents. It seems as if on some hills it is oblivious to the fact it is a descent, even thought there are guys with power meter data showing a huge difference to Strava's estimated numbers for the guys w/o power meters.

Also I am miffed that my ride with the most climbing (9800') doesn't show on there. I dumped 5-6 years of data into Strava, and somehow that ride went missing.
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What's people Strava profiles?

mine: http://app.strava.com/athletes/693634



http://app.strava.com/athletes/710517

My 5 & 10 min power numbers are wacked due to a mtn ride where I got rained on and it temporarily plugged plugged the pressure sensor holes, causing the Garmin to think I rode about 10 miles at 35-45mph on level ground, when I was actually descending.



Strava does weird things with its own power calculations... Very high ratings on descents seems odd...

At least my power numbers look legit! lol



I've seen some odd numbers on Strava on some descents. It seems as if on some hills it is oblivious to the fact it is a descent, even thought there are guys with power meter data showing a huge difference to Strava's estimated numbers for the guys w/o power meters.

Also I am miffed that my ride with the most climbing (9800') doesn't show on there. I dumped 5-6 years of data into Strava, and somehow that ride went missing.



I couldnt dump my historical data... The Garmin app had messed up my data, but I 'd been using SportTracks for a lomng time anyway, and there is no export from it to Strava... Know of any back door?
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I couldnt dump my historical data... The Garmin app had messed up my data, but I 'd been using SportTracks for a lomng time anyway, and there is no export from it to Strava... Know of any back door?



Don't know anything about SportTracks.
I've been dumping all my data into GTC for years, and was able to export it.

I had a ride recently that the dumb 705 saved, but then GTC could not read it. This was one of my big rides, and I really wanted the data. Some googling turned up a guy explaining he had fixed some cases like that where the Garmin failed to put in an XML tag.

So I wrote a perl script that would parse the file, putting in human-readable indentation, then squawk when it saw the indentation change on identical tags. I ran the file thru it, and sure enough, the dumb Garmin omitted a "" tag. Manual editing fixed it and I was able to load it into GTC and Strava.
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http://app.strava.com/athletes/710517

My 5 & 10 min power numbers are wacked due to a mtn ride where I got rained on and it temporarily plugged plugged the pressure sensor holes, causing the Garmin to think I rode about 10 miles at 35-45mph on level ground, when I was actually descending.



That's quite a few miles in a month. Do you typically get that many in every month, year round?

I get in about 250 miles per month commuting (year round), plus another 1000-1500 each year recreationally. I just don't make riding a high enough priority to get very many miles in.
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That's quite a few miles in a month. Do you typically get that many in every month, year round?

I get in about 250 miles per month commuting (year round), plus another 1000-1500 each year recreationally. I just don't make riding a high enough priority to get very many miles in.



Overall average is ~100 miles/week. I miss the occasional ride in the winter due to weather, and get more miles in during the warm half of the year when I do the long rides.
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What's people Strava profiles?

mine: http://app.strava.com/athletes/693634



http://app.strava.com/athletes/710517

My 5 & 10 min power numbers are wacked due to a mtn ride where I got rained on and it temporarily plugged plugged the pressure sensor holes, causing the Garmin to think I rode about 10 miles at 35-45mph on level ground, when I was actually descending.


Forget about power numbers, your 'biggest climb' is almost ten times higher than mine!:D

All of the roads around here are fairly lumpy but for genuine climbing it's a different world. The highest climb I could do anywhere around without some serious travelling is only a shade over 1,000ft[:/]
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Check out this guy's stats: http://app.strava.com/pros/110144
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What a hack... ;)

My problem (like yours since we both live in cycling training areas) is all those damm pros setting the bar so high on those segments! lol


The downside of living in paradise eh?:P

My claim to fame is I've taken two KOM's off an ex-Cervelo Test Team rider. OK, so on both he was evidently just gently riding around whereas I was almost coughing up blood by the end but dammit it still counts!
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Forget about power numbers, your 'biggest climb' is almost ten times higher than mine!:D

All of the roads around here are fairly lumpy but for genuine climbing it's a different world. The highest climb I could do anywhere around without some serious travelling is only a shade over 1,000ft[:/]



Actually, my biggest climb was 9800', but that ride data got lost. I found one of the most annoying rides ever was in Berrien County, MI. It was rolling terrain, so the constant transitions from climb/descent/climb/descent/etc prevented me from ever getting into a rhythm.>:(
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Forget about power numbers, your 'biggest climb' is almost ten times higher than mine!:D

All of the roads around here are fairly lumpy but for genuine climbing it's a different world. The highest climb I could do anywhere around without some serious travelling is only a shade over 1,000ft[:/]



Actually, my biggest climb was 9800', but that ride data got lost.


So you're biggest non-strava climb is still nearly ten times higher than my biggest non-strava climb! I hope Colorado is where I go after I die:P

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I found one of the most annoying rides ever was in Berrien County, MI. It was rolling terrain, so the constant transitions from climb/descent/climb/descent/etc prevented me from ever getting into a rhythm.>:(



You would not like it here:D

(You can actually put some really tough rides together, for sure a decent spring classic type thing, but I do wish we had taller stuff!)
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Fixed gear bikes were popular when I was a kid in the '50s. Fashion fad really, because the competition sprint cyclists used them. I rode with FG on my bike for a year or two back then before getting fed up with it.
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