OCUK Endomondo Team Thread

touch · 5 Sep 2012 at 19:32

It's good. I like it, but it's different to endomondo.

You either download the strava app on your phone or upload your garmin logs to the website. It then compares your times to other people who have ridden the same 'segments'. The segments are created by users and most of them are road climbs but there are also MTB segments as well. Most routes at trail centres are all segments so you can compare your times.

ShiWarrior · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:17

downloaded Strava, and having a play with it, looks good, love the layout, didnt find any MTB routes though, only got a choice of Cycling or Running, i like the top 10 lists on each one, so i could goto the start of one of the rides and have a go at it myself! so tempted to buy a good road bike now!

ShiWarrior · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:10

ive decided to sign up on strava and Endemondo and going online, they are both very different, Endemondo seems to have a lot of things you can partake in, lots of MTB ones , like most miles in a month

great stuff!

touch · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:33

ShiWarrior said:
downloaded Strava, and having a play with it, looks good, love the layout, didnt find any MTB routes though, only got a choice of Cycling or Running

Yeah, there's no distinction on strava between MTB and road bike on strava. There are lots of off-road segments though.
If you go to the website and click the 'explore' link at the top, you can see all of the segments on a map. I'v just had a look at the Forrest of Dean trail centre (dont know how close you are to there?) and there seems to be quite a lot of segments to have a go at.
It's not just trail centres though, have a look near you on the map and see if you can see any off-road segments.

ShiWarrior · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:45

touch said:
Yeah, there's no distinction on strava between MTB and road bike on strava. There are lots of off-road segments though.
If you go to the website and click the 'explore' link at the top, you can see all of the segments on a map. I'v just had a look at the Forrest of Dean trail centre (dont know how close you are to there?) and there seems to be quite a lot of segments to have a go at.
It's not just trail centres though, have a look near you on the map and see if you can see any off-road segments.

cheers mate, i found one local to me, up hill off road! might have to do that next week im off work!

daveski · 6 Sep 2012 at 09:41

I use Endomondo and Strava. Love the segments part of Strava, just a shame all my routes are used by the local cycling clubs so its a struggle to get anywhere near the top 10.

daveski · 6 Sep 2012 at 15:17

Saundie said:
Added a 50 mile cycling challenge (seeing as we're doing the bike stuff in miles rather than km, for whatever reason); http://www.endomondo.com/challenges/6762954

Straight to the top!!

Can change the challenges to KM if you want? I don't mind

Saundie · 6 Sep 2012 at 16:05

daveski said:
Can change the challenges to KM if you want? I don't mind

Fastest 100km challenge; http://www.endomondo.com/challenges/6775391

daveski · 7 Sep 2012 at 09:08

Ok, I've done two over 100km rides on Endomondo, why arent they showing up in the challenge?

Edit - Looks like last weekends Manchester 100k was half a mile short and because the challenge starts on 6th September it hasnt counted the week before's run.

@Saundie - any chance of making the challenge go from 1st Jan - 31st Dec like the others?

Saundie · 7 Sep 2012 at 09:36

daveski said:
@Saundie - any chance of making the challenge go from 1st Jan - 31st Dec like the others?

I've updated it now, sorry about that!

daveski · 7 Sep 2012 at 10:23

Cheers

I'm second, quite happy with that.

Saundie · 7 Sep 2012 at 11:08

Well that's annoying; I hadn't realised that the 100k I did in 3 hours 55 minutes a couple of weeks ago was actually "only" 99.90km. So now I have to go out and do it again this weekend. I feel cheated!!

daveski · 7 Sep 2012 at 11:54

Mine was 98.87

did it in 3h 38mins though

I'm doing 91 miles tomorrow, don't think that will be very fast though.

Chasser · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:20

daveski said:
Can change the challenges to KM if you want? I don't mind

Whats the concensus on this daveski? I'm old fashioned and log everything in miles (afterall the road signs are in miles

), so would prefer that for the challenges. Happy to go with the flow if he majority prefer Kms. :cool:

davestar_delux · 8 Sep 2012 at 15:29

God I'm knackered now entered the 10k challenge as well in my usual position... but I'm going to get way better very soon.

daveski · 10 Sep 2012 at 08:45

Chasser said:
Whats the concensus on this daveski? I'm old fashioned and log everything in miles (afterall the road signs are in miles ), so would prefer that for the challenges. Happy to go with the flow if he majority prefer Kms.

I'm happy with them in miles too. I changed them as one was 10 miles and one was 20km, which seemed a bit stupid!

FeFiDoh · 11 Sep 2012 at 15:11

wow at the 1 mile times, 4mins 32? woooosh that is fast

Gustov · 16 Sep 2012 at 16:26

200km+ of training and BOOM. Finished my first Half Marathon today. Took place in Maidenhead - tore my calf muscle the day before - took 1000mg of ibuprofen and yea...

Finished in 1:39:51

Please find lap times below:

Kristoph · 18 Sep 2012 at 00:08

Nice split times.

I'm aiming for 5min/km at the moment.

Ran my first 10km today, ran it in 53mins. I think I could do a 50min easily, there were a couple of moments where I had to slow/stop for traffic. Tore a hole in my shorts pocket too and my phone fell out!

New shoes and socks before my next 10km.

fire_munki · 20 Sep 2012 at 21:27

Just had another look, I'm gonna need to run a long way to go up a spot!