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From: Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de>
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Subject: Re: End of Week/month mileage
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 10:32:55 +0200
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Am 01.06.2025 um 18:36 schrieb Mark J cleary:
> On 6/1/2025 9:34 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 May 2025 18:15:15 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 31 May 2025 18:46:53 -0500, Mark J cleary
>>> <mcleary08@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/31/2025 4:16 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 31 May 2025 20:13:57 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In January I put in 460 miles. And this included some difficult 
>>>>>> climbing. I am going to have to build up to that again but I did 
>>>>>> put in 402 mostly flat mileage this month. Lets see what I do nect 
>>>>>> December if it's reasonably dry. I seem to never be in the mood to 
>>>>>> climb since my stroke. But I will get over that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Post your rides on Strava.  Otherwise, I don't believe you.
>>>>>
>>>>> 05/11/2025
>>>>> <https://www.novabbs.com/tech/article-flat.php? 
>>>>> id=125679&group=rec.bicycles.tech#125679>
>>>>> Message-ID: <dy9UP.25407$5Nof.12899@fx35.iad>
>>>>> "I closeed my Strava account as I've said before - because when I did
>>>>> a ride the 20 year olds would ride the same course and then brag about
>>>>> how much faster they were."
>>>>>
>>>> What is your strava link I will follow you.
>>>
>>> If you're looking for Tom's Strava link, this is what's left of them:
>>> <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
>>> <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
>>> Neither account has any data or details in it.
>>>
>>> My account is at:
>>> <https://www.strava.com/athletes/103870441>
>>> However, you will be disappointed.  I haven't been riding a bicycle
>>> since about 2018(?) due to back pain problems.  I also didn't ride
>>> competitively.  Mostly, it was short rides around the Santa Cruz area.
>>>
>>> Everything I've recorded on Strava was either a walk or a hike in a
>>> local park.  No bicycle involved.  My cardiologist demanded that I do
>>> exercise walks at least 4 times per week.  I couldn't do that, so I
>>> only did one walk.  I walk or hike with or 2 or 3 friends,
>>> unfortunately at the rate of the slowest.  I may need to make some
>>> changes as I'm definitely not getting enough exercise by walking.
>>> (Note:  I'm 77.5 years old and am doing well enough for my age).
>>>
>>> Tom began posting his rides on Strava in about mid 2022(?) at the
>>> request of Lou Holtman, a competent engineer.  I subscribed to the
>>> free version of Strava to see how it works, learn how to use Strava,
>>> and keep an eye out for Tom.  Despite claiming to have 15(?) bicycles,
>>> Tom never bothered to post which bicycle he was riding on Strava.  If
>>> Tom had switched bicycles, some of the amazing and questionable
>>> numbers seem to have been the result of speed sensor calibration
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> Tom's Strava postings continued for a few months.  (I can research the
>>> exact dates if someone wants to know).  At some point, Lou Holtman
>>> announced that he was leaving rec.bicycles.tech.  At approximately the
>>> same time, Tom deleted his data and wiped all the data from his Strava
>>> account.  I don't recall which event came first.
>>
>> I have a free Strava account that my Garmin account passes my data to,
>> but I seldom look at it. I get more data with Garmin Connect and I can
>> download it and save it in my own database.

> I use Garmin and Strava but Strava is a much more used platform for all 
> types of things. 

I also use Garmin and Strava (plus Komoot for social sharing).  I track 
most rides/ hikes both on the wrist watch and on the mobile phone. 
Garmin always gets the raw data from the wrist watch while Strava takes 
the GPS data (w/o heart rate) from the mobile phone when the wrist watch 
did not record correctly (mostly due to user erros - e.g. forgot to 
re-start tracking after lunch break, sometimes due to technical errors).