Anyone on Strava?

[bellissima]

Is anybody from TE using Strava?

[MojoGrrl]

Me! I love it. I obsess about tracking my rides.

[westtexas]

I'd never heard of it until your post but I am going to try it out this morning on my ride!

My guy uses Endomondo all the time. But it talks out of his phone as we ride, which is weird.

[TrekTheKaty]

My DH has been doing strava. It's good for me because he only sprints segments of our rides now, so I can sit back and relax the rest of the time!

The down side? He Wanted me to pick him up at Six Flags the other day, because there was a segment out there he needed to ride!

[maillotpois]

I love it - so much of my riding involves hills that the segments and hill climbs are very motivating. (Somehow all my QOMs are on descents, though. )

[bellissima]

Is a great way to track and see how we stack with other female riders.

[maillotpois]

Thought I would bump this and see if anyone else is on Strava since this thread went around this summer. I really enjoy it for tracking progress in training.

[jobob]

I found it demoralizing so I stopped using it.

I don't need a program to reinforce the fact that I'm the Slowest. Person. Ever. up a particular climb ... I can pretty much figure that out on my own.

[bluebug32]

Strava's awesome. The only problem is that I'm the only female riding most of the climbs around here, so I'm always at the bottom. Oh well...still Queen of the mountains!

[maillotpois]

I found it demoralizing so I stopped using it.

I don't need a program to reinforce the fact that I'm the Slowest. Person. Ever. up a particular climb ... I can pretty much figure that out on my own.

What I like is the ability to compare myself to.... myself. It's nice to see improvement or recognize that a ride was relaxed pace or I'm tired or whatever, so I didn't improve.

[bellissima]

Thought I would bump this and see if anyone else is on Strava since this thread went around this summer. I really enjoy it for tracking progress in training.

I agree, Strava is good progress tracking tool. I know that for our group it has being a great motivator and quite a few of our friends have really improved or ride more often after joining Strava

[maillotpois]

I recently downloaded the Strava run app for my iPhone. It's kind of cool to track my dog walk/runs on the trails here. Now I know my usual loop with the younger dog is 5.6 miles and takes an hour and 15 minutes! The older dog's "drag" by contrast is just over a mile and takes about 20 minutes. The older dog has a lot of pee breaks.

[bellissima]

I recently downloaded the Strava run app for my iPhone. It's kind of cool to track my dog walk/runs on the trails here. Now I know my usual loop with the younger dog is 5.6 miles and takes an hour and 15 minutes! The older dog's "drag" by contrast is just over a mile and takes about 20 minutes. The older dog has a lot of pee breaks.

Is cool that you can see the difference between your two dogs I know that Strava allows you to track other sports and not just cycling or running. I enjoy following other riders but specially the girls, and almost everyday I see more females in the leader boards!

Deya

[maillotpois]

Is cool that you can see the difference between your two dogs

Well, one is 5 and the other is 11. They have to have separate walks because the older one just can't go as far or as fast as the other.

I hear you on the growth of Strava. It's becoming a lot harder to get QOMs!

[bellissima]

Well, one is 5 and the other is 11. They have to have separate walks because the older one just can't go as far or as fast as the other.

I hear you on the growth of Strava. It's becoming a lot harder to get QOMs!

Yes this Strava is thing is just getting harder and more competitive everyday I seems that any time I get a QOM, I loose one more! I am just happy to see that more women are joining and having fun with it.