How Strava Is Changing the Way We Ride

[Greg Heil ✓ supporter]

While Jeff has already blogged on this topic, this article from Outside Magazine is probably the most comprehensive article I’ve read about Strava to date: http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/bi … -Ride.html

Thoughts?

[SB27rider]

"mtbgreg1" wrote

While Jeff has already blogged on this topic, this article from Outside Magazine is probably the most comprehensive article I’ve read about Strava to date:

Thoughts?

I don’t see a link for the article?

[Dustin Gaddis]

Here it is: http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/bi … ?182888611

I find it incredibly sad that some people don’t see the point of riding if they aren’t chasing KOM titles.

[Greg Heil ✓ supporter]

Wow, my bad. Thanks for the help dustin.

I find it incredibly sad that some people don’t see the point of riding if they aren’t chasing KOM titles.

If I didn’t ride singletrack, I imagine I’d start to feel that way for a while. But since I DO ride singletrack….

[klowe8828]

I use strava and love it…but my times suck because I stop to enjoy without fidgiting for the pause button…isnt that why most of us start riding in the woods, looking for some connection to the outdoors? I suspect the old roughnecks who blazed the trails with a compass, machete, and string would kick our a@@es for being such toolbags at times…<—and I include myself in that statement.

[Fitch]

"klowe8828" wrote

I suspect the old roughnecks who blazed the trails with a compass, machete, and string would kick out a@@es for being such toolbags at times…

I LOVE this statement. Here here!!!

[JSatch]

hate strava, hope it dies.

although there are beneficial aspects for those looking to better their times on wide open xc trails, many of us don’t ride those.

there was a time, not long ago, i will tell my son, where both riders going in opposite directions would pull over and almost argue to have the other person continue. it was actually a way riders would meet and chat, yes chat. no one would stop another person’s flow. if you saw someone coming down a section, pull over and watch him go by smiling, because you know you’ll be next. and this breezy little section here, used to be a rock garden that many would fail on. it took some skill, now it’s sanitized with nearly a rock or root in sight. and oh, i remember when we rode the challenging sections on the other side of the ridge, but the land managers found out lots of people were posting rides there and closed it down.

i used to have a lighter bike with an odometer and an altimeter/stopwatch/heart rate monitor. yeah, it was my exercise and fresh air. i tried to improve my times too, so i get it. but once i lost the odometer and other junk i found out that riding is a lot more fun than i realized. challenging now is improving skill, not endurance. and there is a lot to be said about stopping to smell the flowers.

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