big chainring 

I know little to nothing about Strava. And there is a Time Trial this weekend that uses Strava to record your ride. How does it all work? Do I have to start the Strava app or does it start and stop automatically. I downloaded the app to my phone but havent logged in. This is all new to me. It would be fun to see where I stand compared to other riders. Helllllp!

dr_max

You start Strava
Record
Select Bike
Start

then ride like there is no tomorrow

jpescatore

If you have a Garmin, Wahoo or other smart bike computer, you can just use that and it will upload to Strava. Or you can use the app as Dr Max described - easy to use.

Robius

Press that red circle.

MoAlpha

The course is registered as a "segment" on Strava. You ride and Strava records a GPS track and times for any segments you cover. As pointed out, you can also use any GPS-enabled device that will generate a .fit, .tcx, or .gpx file. As stated above, all you have to do is start recording when you get on the bike and stop and upload when you get off. Good luck!

burnthesheep

Not sure how that one is, but here locally it was recommended to do a standing start at some distance short of the segment start. This way, you start far enough from the segment start to "get credit" but you're also not doing a fast flying start either.

Have fun.

caloso

We have a local strava TT series every Thursday here. The guy who organizes it rides the route ahead of time and creates a segment. Everyone who wants to participate in it just has to ride the segment sometime on Thursday. All you have to do is start Strava when you start your ride. No need to do anything at the start of the segment. Then Thursday night you log on and compare your time on that segment.

vandalarchitect

I know you can filter a segment leaderboard for the day, but it would be cool to see something like this more supported by the site; “Temporary Segments” or something like that. Set up a segment and a time frame and it only looks at rides during that time period. Afterwards, the segment could go away, or simply serve as a historical mark of that event. Organized rides are notorious for getting duplicate segments created to cover the full length of the ride and sometimes you can find segments that are exactly the same, except for the year in the title.

burnthesheep

This was what I was waiting for with Strava. You can filter results by weight and club or date.........I'd just prefer the ability for a club to have their own segments.

I know there is a very logical reason for it, but I still don't like how with Strava you have to pre-ride a route before creating the segment. I know it's easy enough to make it after then update the activity..........but........c'mon. Roads open and close all the time. You could ride a legit route just to have construction close it a week later.

Reason I mention this is if you're going to only ride somewhere once, perhaps, and would like to see the "live segment" on that one and only ride. You can't do the live segment if it doesn't exist yet.

Example is when I did a weekend in French mountains there was a climb that if you started down at the one side of a tiny town and continued left at the mountain top, the ensuing extra little elevation would make it a Cat 1 climb. But, the segment ended a full mile or two short at the little town on the one side. I would have loved to have a live segment for that climb. Sure, I created it after the fact.........but c'mon.

MoAlpha

We do something very similar, but the course doesn't change and most people ride it in a regular, socially distanced, start order assigned the day before. Big fun.

caloso

That's a good way too. Most of our races have been on a canal path which is a well-known TT course, and they've been variations on that. But we've also had a couple of hill climbs and a gravel TT. That was fun.

thehammerdog

I am jealous no racing this summer.

clasher

Test your phone with strava before heading out, Strava doesn't work on my phone to record rides, it just crashes. I use RWGPS to record anything if I'm using my phone, it doesn't crash and I can upload that file to strava later without any troubles.

shelbyfv

How was it?