WhyFi

I hear what you're saying. I tend to look skeptically upon really good results with very little information. No cadence or HR and recorded with an iPhone? I completely disregard. Setting the bar at Power is maybe a little high, but yeah, it'd be nice to have that filter.

furiousferret

Its not even being skeptical per se. If I want to race a TT for example, I may look at the leaderboard and filter by weight and I can get a general idea of what effort I need to do to get a certain time.

DiabloScott

You could do this yourself (and lots of other stuff) if they had a download button for a spreadsheet... That's my request.

kbarch

Surely there's an app for that.
I use VeloViewer to get more detailed and varied looks at segments and activities, and that uses data that Strava collects. I don't record power or heart rate - not really interested in it - but if so many users are interested in that, you'd think some app developer would come up with something to look at and analyze that kind of Strava data, too.

drewguy

Not entirely wild about giving people the ability to download data about a bunch of other riders . . . I realize it's viewable if you make it public, but you can also make past rides non-public.

TimothyH

Downloading activity for other riders is already a reality if you use the Strava API.

A local developer here in the Atlanta Suburbs uses the Strava API to slice and dice local ride data - time of day, average speed, length of ride vs age, MUP usage trends, where people enter and exit the MUP, etc.

I'm not sure if the data includes riders screen names or not.

DiabloScott

Yeah, I'm not talking about anything that's not already there - you can copy all the data and paste it into a spreadsheet now, but it's super clunky. I just want to be able to define my own sorts. @furiousferret wants to delete entries without power numbers for example - easy with a spreadsheet, but Strava doesn't have a sort for that.

kbarch

So - yesterday, when looking at a club leaderboard, I was amused to see that although I had the longest single ride and the most rides of anyone, I didn't even have as many total miles as average. Most alarming, however, was my average speed - by FAR the slowest. Now, there's an easy way to improve that in the future - too easy, in fact: I can just start making all my little Citibike rides (average speeds in the 9-10.5 mph range) private, excluding them from leaderboard rankings. But you know what? I don't think I'll do that. I'll keep them as a built-in excuse for not having better speed rankings. Besides, I'd have to cut out too many other rides to even be competitive on that front, and then I wouldn't be competitive on the distance and elevation fronts any more. Smart, huh? Miles and elevation are all that really matter on weekly club leader boards, anyhow, if you ask me. Speed only matters on specific events and segments. And like I said, it would be too easy to exclude Citibike and other inherently slow rides to keep those weekly average speed numbers higher.

TimothyH

How do you make captions on photos?

I'm using the full Strava website and also on an iPhone.

For the life of me, I can't figure out where/how to make captions.


-Tim-

jasonsirota

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kbarch

I wouldn't think so. You can track rides in airplane mode.

robertorolfo

Really? Are you sure? I thought airplane mode eliminated all of that stuff?

As for Strava leader-boards, just check out some of the times over the 59th street bridge. People supposedly doing 60mph... it's all a big joke.

DrIsotope

I was talking about Strava with one of the guys at my LBS, he a very KOM-centric sort of roadie guy. One of the only things we share in common is regularly losing leaderboard positions to 17-year-old kids that ride for the California Juniors teams. Whaddaya gonna do, right? Anyhow, his summation of Strava goes something like this: "Strava hasn't even been around 10 years, and you'll see most of the local KOMs are all weather based. Some guy gets the lucky tailwind, or better, has a paceline to pull him into that tailwind. If you expanded it out over time-- say 100 years into the future-- every Strava KOM will be unattainable. Because it will be held by a guy that had a leadout man and a 30mph tailwind."

Doesn't help that we have an annual bike race here, so any segment in the road course, or on any of the road between the event stages and the houses the teams stay at, the top 200-300 positions on the leaderboards are just clogged with pro times. So I lean into it. I routinely play leadout man for my wife-- I take her into segments and break the air for her. She's got something like 70 QOMs.

noglider 

It's true about weather. I look at my varying times along my commute which is a flat route along the very windy Hudson River. My times vary with wind more than anything. I had a glorious tailwind this morning, which is a rare treat.

Elvir

Website function does not seem to be there.

on the phone, click on the photo, under the photo you will see in light gray "Say something about this image". click on it and edit it there.
You have to click on individual photo.

kbarch

I can't guarantee it will work on your phone, but I do it all the time, and when I had an iphone before, too, but that was a couple of models back.

TimothyH

Thanks, but the only options I have are remove and cancel or delete and cancel, depending on the context. Should I also be seeing "Say something about this image" in the same spot?






-Tim-

DrIsotope

Don't go into edit. Just click on the activity pic in the Feed view. It will bring up the attached photos, the time stamps, and the text Say something about this image

logical

How did you get a dark strava theme in the apple app?

DrIsotope

It looks like the Strava app from several versions ago-- there is for instance no pictured option to change activity type, and mine hasn't had a Save option in the top bar for a while now, but instead "Update Activity" at the bottom. So perhaps that's why he doesn't have the option to add image descriptions. For everyone else, the dark theme disappeared back in 2016.

TimothyH

I tap on the photo from my feed as shown below. Is this what you are talking about?

This only brings up one photo, no time stamps or 'Say something" text. I can then swipe through other photos from that ride. None of them have time stamps or any text. If I tap those full size photos I get Remove and Cancel only.






I never changed it to anything. That's the way it was when I installed it.


-Tim-

TimothyH

This was it.

Updated the app. Doh!

Thanks everyone!!!


-Tim-

logical

They took out the dark theme like a year ago. Have you never updated?

robertorolfo

That's why the only way to really race is in an actual race. Virtual racing is nonsense and rife with cheating. Although, now that I think about it, real racing is as well.