Are you getting the most out of Strava? Five tools to enhance your Stava experience
Drawing on the plenty of information from Strava’s API, Veloviewer cuts this up and shows it in so many desirable methods. The elevation information from the segments is an apparent one, with good graphics depicting the gradients, distance and all of the twists and turns of the hills in a single immediately digestible picture. It’s no marvel that so many pro teams depend on the platform.
However past that there are such a lot of glorious options, with ‘tile bagging’ (second within the gallery) being a notable one. As a substitute of obsessing about how briskly you possibly can journey a sure stretch of street, what number of completely different stretches of street are you able to get your self onto? The map is split up right into a sure variety of squares and the objective is to get your self into as many squares as potential. Like Strava’s native legends, it is a completely different set of metrics and objectives to organise your rides by – if that’s what you’re into.
However after all, in hoovering up all the information from Strava’s API, there’s lots of very KOM / QOM heavy touches. Though the perfect amongst us could gauge their rides by the sheer amount of KOMs / QOMs hoovered up – maybe counting them within the pages reasonably than every particular person title – for many of us even coming into a high ten is a notable achievement.
So it’s good to maintain observe of the place you’re rating for these, and Veloviewer enables you to try this (third within the gallery). It even generates a “Strava rating” contextualising your achievements – coming fiftieth on a climb in a world tour race is rather more spectacular than a KOM round your housing property, and Veloviewer takes that into consideration.
Additionally, for higher searching of segments, if you happen to plan in your route, it’ll inform you at what distance by means of your route the segments will probably be arising, so you possibly can observe down in your stem when to go (fourth within the gallery). The map will even allow you to filter segments by so many parameters, distance, gradient, KOM time, that can assist you tailor your search to the segments you’re after, for the coaching profit you want.
There’s a subscription to entry all of this and extra particulars might be discovered on veloviewer.com (opens in new tab)
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