2025 10,000 km+ Club

[jasonc]

In again. Going to go for less kms, but more intensity
I'll say 12,000kms again
Want to keep the 1000km/ month thing going

[warthog1]

10-15 here. Might be less. Happy to just keep going.

[elantra]

Yeah I would like to get to 10 K again.
But it depends on so many factors, first and foremost being personal strength and freedom from significant injury and illness.

Also depends on the weather - the first few months up here are not good for outdoor bike riding - too much rain, mud and heat !

Thankyou Jason for getting this topic up and running so early

[g-boaf]

I won't set a specific target, I'll just see what I get to. So many outside factors get in the way of particular targets.

I'm still not fully recovered from sickness so haven't been outside yet but did start of the year with Alpe du Zwift on Zwift.

I think I'm slowly getting better.

[Mr Purple]

My goal this year is to not end up in hospital, and preferably not even crash once.

77.1km/861m and 2 KOMs so far. It should have been three but the GPS was particularly fussy on the last one and I have to ride it again, slightly more to the centre of the road.

[AndrewCowley]

Not sure I’ll be joining you fellas in this thread this year.

Goal is to ride again, hopefully with some consistency.

I have walked 25km YTD. Best I can do for now.

[OnTrackZeD]

I haven't cracked 10k since covid but I think I might be motivated this year, hopefully I stay keen.

[Mr Purple]

First crash for the year (and hopefully the last) out of the way. You know when there's a hole hidden in the long grass that just happens to precisely match the dimensions of your front wheel? One of those.

Fortunately I was on the gravel bike doing an appropriate 'long grass' speed. So it was a little low speed one with just that couple of seconds of stocktake on the ground to realise nothing is even slightly injured.

8 KOMs in at least now. Found one I can't get - I suspect that someone created a new segment that invalidates the old one and no matter where I ride on the road I can't trigger the older segment.

[Anrai]

8 KOMs in at least now. Found one I can't get - I suspect that someone created a new segment that invalidates the old one and no matter where I ride on the road I can't trigger the older segment.

Is this common? I've found a bunch of segments that are 100% invisible on Strava's crappy map-search features unless you can star them (and I swear you used to be able to sort by climb category a handful of months ago too!) but once I know where a segment is I don't usually have trouble activating it; even segments that don't show up in a ride summary still seem to track for Local Legend and leaderboard times.

[Mr Purple]

Is this common? I've found a bunch of segments that are 100% invisible on Strava's crappy map-search features unless you can star them (and I swear you used to be able to sort by climb category a handful of months ago too!) but once I know where a segment is I don't usually have trouble activating it; even segments that don't show up in a ride summary still seem to track for Local Legend and leaderboard times.

No - this is the first I've found.

It's annoying because it's a dumb little 1% climb currently held at 37 seconds, and I've had live timing as low as 28 seconds for it in my three attempts.

It's a bit of a weird road that splits off in a y-shape, and I can activate the segment going left but not the right. Even riding entirely down the right hand gutter. Even more annoying is I've hit an average of 45km/hr on the right hand road, second to the 52km/hr KOM holder, so that one's out of reach.

I suspect the GPS data just isn't accurate enough. Strangely there's a segment just nearby I also can't get - a short 6.1% climb held at 30km/hr. I've done it without dropping below 32km/hr but my time registered an average 22km/hr. I suspect they're just old segments - created with dodgy GPS technology and there's no way of beating them short of going across someone's front yard.

[elantra]

8 KOMs in at least now. Found one I can't get - I suspect that someone created a new segment that invalidates the old one and no matter where I ride on the road I can't trigger the older segment.

Is this common? I've found a bunch of segments that are 100% invisible on Strava's crappy map-search features unless you can star them (and I swear you used to be able to sort by climb category a handful of months ago too!) but once I know where a segment is I don't usually have trouble activating it; even segments that don't show up in a ride summary still seem to track for Local Legend and leaderboard times.

Actually I have been confused by this predicament as well, on the Strava map search function you hone in a particular valley, Shire or whatever looking for a segment that interests you, but it just doesn’t light up…
If it’s one that you have done before you can search for it by name but that often doesn’t work because you can’t remember its name- and many Strava segments have cryptic names !

Sometimes the only way that I can find such a segment is to search my previous rides in that area until I find a ride that includes the segment…
Usually these are not well-patronised segments, usually the hard-to-find Strava segments are on road or tracks that might only see several Strava-users per year.
On a related note I see that some of the more popular and oft-quoted Strava segments have become “Verified” segments, sort of like “Official” segments that are standardised and perhaps have been checked for GPS accuracy etc
Such as the iconic and popular Brisbane climb up the “back” of Coottha - which used to go by a different name but is now the Verified segment called - drumroll- “Mt Coottha Back”
: 2.22 km, 202 metres vertical gain, and 9.2% gradient

[Anrai]

Usually these are not well-patronised segments, usually the hard-to-find Strava segments are on road or tracks that might only see several Strava-users per year.

I'm almost certain that it only shows the X-most-traveled segments for your parameters in a given area. One of my regular rides features a gravel descent accessible from three directions (two already traveling down to join the existing access road, one with a short climb,) and the map-visible segment is the shorter version that cuts the climb. There's also no possibility of that changing because anyone who rides the longer segment also rides the shorter one, and it's a fairly dense spot on the map due to a moderate concentration of MTB trails (and some paved segments all top-10'd by people logging 60km/h+ uphill, as is the norm on local Strava.)
I didn't even know there were segments for 2 and 4 full laps of the MTB loop until I snooped a look at some other peoples' rides.

[Mr Purple]

Probably not the thread for it, but they recently seem to have neatened up the KOM finding features on the maps.

The key is the 'zoom'. As above I reckon the most popular segments on the view only are shown - so if you zoom in and out a lot you can find the lesser travelled ones.

What does annoy me is the whole 'anything downhill won't show on a live segment for safety reasons' shtick. Fair enough on the ones that are straight down - but one I did yesterday was 6km/51m of climbing and because it averaged -0.6% over that distance it was apparently too dangerous to show as a live segment. Not clever.

[robbo mcs]

Hoping to crack 10k again this year. However, the main objective is to enjoy my time on the bike