Garmin 500 vs Strava/ Runtastic
- Thread starter kiwiinmelb
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camoshop
Banned
Just found this bit of info Ibdidnt know on google,
"One for the unscrupulous, which we don't condone and include here purely for educational purposes...
Upload your rides to Digital EPO before logging them on Strava and you can "juice" them to make it appear that you rode faster than you actually did. Bump the average speed up one per cent for a subtle advantage, or go the whole hog and steal all the KOMs in your county - but you're only cheating yourself."
I wonder how many people actually do this!
"One for the unscrupulous, which we don't condone and include here purely for educational purposes...
Upload your rides to Digital EPO before logging them on Strava and you can "juice" them to make it appear that you rode faster than you actually did. Bump the average speed up one per cent for a subtle advantage, or go the whole hog and steal all the KOMs in your county - but you're only cheating yourself."
I wonder how many people actually do this!
kiwiinmelb
Likes Dirt
Wow , I had no idea people cared that much to cheat like that .
That's what I'm talking about, if the KOM is a bit of an outlier, then disregard.
I just get annoyed that sometimes I know full well that I've blitzed my best time and it tells me I'm off by like 20%. Or, I'm just out on a cruise and I PR by a ridiculous degree. These are just the times that are noticeably out, there are bound to be many others out but you're just not aware of it.
Minlak, I reckon I'm just going to wait until there's a leap in technology. Two of my main loops have regular traffic obstacles as well as as 6 gates that have to be climbed over.
I just get annoyed that sometimes I know full well that I've blitzed my best time and it tells me I'm off by like 20%. Or, I'm just out on a cruise and I PR by a ridiculous degree. These are just the times that are noticeably out, there are bound to be many others out but you're just not aware of it.
Minlak, I reckon I'm just going to wait until there's a leap in technology. Two of my main loops have regular traffic obstacles as well as as 6 gates that have to be climbed over.
There was an article that showed what rides that have been modified look like, generally if you go into the speed data or elevation etc you will see little jumps every so often where it's been changed tom make the whole ride faster etc, you do need to zoom right in on the data graphs though.
scblack
Leucocholic
I read the same, if you dig into the speed data, the graph looks jagged, rather than smooth. I have not looked this close myself but I do agree with you.
camoshop
Banned
i guess you could always go old school and just use a stop watch and pause it when you hit your obstacles, and just record each time you do it on paper and see if you have improved or not.
camoshop
Banned
yeah if you zoom in it will look like this ^^^ i wonder if you can do that if they have their account on private though?
YEh, I'd be happy with a watch where I could just hit a button as I ride past landmarks and I could check the data when I return. Stopping to to record stuff would screw the timing of the overall loop, not to mention lessen the flow of the ride.
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
He'll need to grow a beard first. And we all know how he feels about that.What about something like this?
