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The A/R Off Topic Thread

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    #5102
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    Singer wrote: »
    Strava has "segments", which are basically routes that somebody has named. Strava then keeps track of who runs fastest on those routes. CR means "course record".

    A lot of segments are dominated by cyclists somehow mis-adding their 4 minute/mile 20 mile cycles as runs, you can clear them out but it's a bit of a nuisance.

    You can track how you do on segments over time etc. It's all a little bit of pointless fun.

    Haha, so what you're saying is I could go for a trot along a very specific route through my housing estate, and claim a "course record"?


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    #5103
    davedanon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭davedanon


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    Haha, so what you're saying is I could go for a trot along a very specific route through my housing estate, and claim a "course record"?

    Yeah, and Strava will give you a little virtual trophy!


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    #5104
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    Haha, so what you're saying is I could go for a trot along a very specific route through my housing estate, and claim a "course record"?

    Only if you don't have a 'privacy zone' around your house, otherwise you'll have random strava users turning up to take you down ;)


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    #5105
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    Only if you don't have a 'privacy zone' around your house, otherwise you'll have random strava users turning up to take you down ;)

    If I set a route so complicated with twists and turns, the person rocking up will need a map to negotiate the course.


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    #5106
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    davedanon wrote: »
    Yeah, and Strava will give you a little virtual trophy!

    A trophy? How wonderful. Virtual backslaps. :)


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    #5107
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    A trophy? How wonderful. Virtual backslaps. :)

    No, they come when you get or give Kudos, Stravas version of the Thanks button.


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    #5108
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    Seems like people take these virtual trophies a bit too seriously.

    http://m.phys.org/news/2016-05-app-strava-uproar-elite-user.html


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    #5109
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    Seems like people take these virtual trophies a bit too seriously.

    http://m.phys.org/news/2016-05-app-strava-uproar-elite-user.html

    Strava were sued in the US (where else) by the family of a guy chasing a segment in San Francisco who died after braking to avoid a car resulting in him loosing control. Their case was based on their claims that Strava were negligent and encouraged him to speed.


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    #5110
    davedanon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭davedanon


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Strava were sued in the US (where else) by the family of a guy chasing a segment in San Francisco who died after braking to avoid a car resulting in him loosing control. Their case was based on their claims that Strava were negligent and encouraged him to speed.


    Strava won the case, though. Or rather, the family lost.


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    #5111
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Strava were sued in the US (where else) by the family of a guy chasing a segment in San Francisco who died after braking to avoid a car resulting in him loosing control. Their case was based on their claims that Strava were negligent and encouraged him to speed.

    Good grief, and did they win the case? I sincerely hope not.

    Reminds me of the time when a mother who was bringing her kids to an Nsync concert, got stuck in traffic, missed the gig, and sued Nsync as a result.

    The USA is a funny funny place!


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    #5112
    Gavlor
    Registered Users Posts: 6,181 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    Haha, so what you're saying is I could go for a trot along a very specific route through my housing estate, and claim a "course record"?

    It's actually quite good for cycling, nice way to challenge yourself on specific hills.

    Outside of that, it's a joke! Runners with stupid trophy segments on which they are the only person running!!


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    #5113
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Dave just got in there, the family lost. The judge said that cyclists are aware of the risks when they go riding, and I think it's in the conditions of Strava somewhere that absolves them of being the cause of any incidents when using it.


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    #5114
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Gavlor wrote: »
    It's actually quite good for cycling, nice way to challenge yourself on specific hills.

    Outside of that, it's a joke! Runners with stupid trophy segments on which they are the only person running!!

    Like I said, Strava can automatically create segments which is why you see that. Not sure if they still do these days.

    Coincidentally I only read a story this morning from California about how Strava was used to ban MTB'ers from trails in a nature reserves. Hikers and horse riders had been complaining about them, specifically their speed, so the council used Strava data to check and voted to ban them from the area. And apparently in certain counties around SF speed guns are used against them.

    http://road.cc/content/news/188615-strava-data-used-ban-cyclists-trail
    https://dirtmountainbike.com/news/incredibly-unacceptable-strava-data-used-ban-cyclists-california-trails.html


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    #5115
    davedanon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭davedanon


    "Strava was used to ban MTB'ers from trails in a nature reserves"

    I was going to ask how Motor Torpedo Boats could get into a forest...


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    #5116
    jamule
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    Theres nothing worse than someone taking your trophy while appearing to run the segment faster than the Bolt


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    #5117
    jamule
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    There is nothing worse than someone taking your trophy while appearing to run the segment faster than the Bolt


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    #5118
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    jamule wrote: »
    There is nothing worse than someone taking your trophy while appearing to run the segment faster than the Bolt

    If you are covering a 12k route slower than Usain Bolt, then your "course record" isn't worth talking about in the first place!


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    #5119
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Anyway, I like Strava and the social aspect to it, it's good to see the training people are doing and where, it's not suited to track I guess.


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    #5120
    Clearlier
    Registered Users Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭Clearlier


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    If you are covering a 12k route slower than Usain Bolt, then your "course record" isn't worth talking about in the first place!

    Segments are often pretty short sections of a run and a dodgy GPS reading can really skew the numbers. I have a 1:12 half mile and a 3:07 mile to my name on Strava including a section in the sea!


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    #5121
    hot buttered scones
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Anyway, I like Strava and the social aspect to it, it's good to see the training people are doing and where, it's not suited to track I guess.

    It's interesting if you follow an elite or two and see the kind of sessions they do. I keep track of a few friends who live elsewhere and chat about running etc. As far as segments are concerned, I've never gone out for a course record or anything. I just think its handy to compare my performance over certain segments, be it a hill or a 1 mile stretch I regularly run because it shows whether or not I'm improving - i.e. I ran this segment 3 months ago and now my pace increased for the same or less effort.

    The flyby feature is great especially during races - I've learned a thing or to about proper pacing by seeing how the lad who flew passed me with a mile to go paced himself.


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    #5122
    jamule
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    If you are covering a 12k route slower than Usain Bolt, then your "course record" isn't worth talking about in the first place!

    No idea who he is. The Bolt is a mystery strava segment destroyer, once done 12k in 12mins. He has a brother called nuts


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    #5123
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,524 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    A trophy? How wonderful. Virtual backslaps. :)
    Most of the tracks have them, for 400m, 800m, 1600m, 3k, 5k, etc. Try and win them trophies!


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    #5124
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    Girl driving using Snapchat speed filter plows into car leaving the other occupant brain damaged.

    And she kept on taking pics after!! Even in the ambulance.

    http://www.geek.com/mobile/snapchat-sued-for-encouraging-teenager-to-drive-at-107mph-before-hitting-another-car-1654327/


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    #5125
    opus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭opus


    Shlippery wrote: »
    Cheers for responses - I wasn't sure as I like to keep an eye on A/R for upcoming events and was just curious that DIL didn't feature anywhere considering the number of venues it's being hosted in!

    I did it a few years back in Galway as my first 5k ever and venture into running! It went along the prom and was a brilliant' feeling running near the end as the sun started to come up. Really gave me the itch for running!

    Big crowd in UCC this morning, was ~3k last year & suspect it might be more than that this time round. Thankfully the rain stayed away. I passed one guy in a club singlet in the last mile, guess he was taking it seriously enough :)

    There I've mentioned DIL again for you!


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    #5126
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    So Strava tells me I have logged 666 runs. IT waits until Friday 13th to tell me this :eek:


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    #5127
    Singer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭Singer


    adrian522 wrote: »
    So Strava tells me I have logged 666 runs. IT waits until Friday 13th to tell me this :eek:

    Argh! You have loads of unread messages!!!


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    #5128
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Singer wrote: »
    Argh! You have loads of unread messages!!!

    They're not messages they're notifications. Completely different.


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    #5129
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    adrian522 wrote: »
    They're not messages they're notifications. Completely different.

    You still haven't cleared them! That's the OCD in Singer. I'm the same...that's all I see when I click your link! :)


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    #5130
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Well I'm a bit of an OCD nerd myself but this dropdown gets populated everytime a run gets added, or a cycle gets uploaded so it does happen several times per day and the notification thing just gets ignored!


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    #5131
    Firedance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭Firedance


    adrian522 wrote: »
    Well I'm a bit of an OCD nerd myself but this dropdown gets populated everytime a run gets added, or a cycle gets uploaded so it does happen several times per day and the notification thing just gets ignored!

    But you only have to click the bell to clear the notifications!! g'wan do us all a favour and post back when its 'fixed' :pac:


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