Strava times tumble after Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic race

Proof that a 40 year old can go faster than a young pro...
I'll expect that to reverse when he's home again.

I did the ride and got a stack of PRs, thanks to the combo of closed roads and big groups to work with. There's gonna be a PR drought now though - no chance of hitting those times again!

As noted above though, Strava has very poor accuracy for speed at any given point, or on short stretches and straight segments (i.e. anything where there's a wide margin in the possible GPS recording points). It's much better over a longer section where it can get a more accurate average. Still fun though - and I'd love to know if that 112kmh is real!

I did LEJOG last year and on my ride through Cornwall I found myself getting second on a lot of the hills. When I looked at the segment details later, I found that the KOM holder on all of them was Chris Opie, pro rider for Team UK Youth.

Never done a ride that says "You and 14,000 others rode on..." though!

I was having to put the brakes on at around 42/43 mph down Leith, and that was pretty much only from getting down in a tuck. If I'd hammered it, I'm sure I could have gone faster... but the roads were too busy for that.

I noticed the speedo on the motorbike was showing the pros at around 53/54mph.

Well, I hit 72km/h coming down Leith Hill on Sunday's ride and my Garmin is using the wheel sensor for speed so probably reasonably accurate. Luckily it wasn't too busy with other riders and I was able to follow the line of some speedy guys in front, but going through the tunnel of trees with sunglasses on was pretty dark and butt clenching quick for me so I'd hate to have been going much quicker.

+1 those top speeds are GPS nonsense. Going under an avenue of trees will cause that kind of jump. On a short wooded stretch of N1 I sometimes take, Strava regularly tells me I topped over 100kph, especially at this time of year. Not that I don't wish it was true, but I'm pretty sure I'd remember going that fast.

I hope more pro riders take up using Strava. It would give us mere mortals something to wow at plus it would help combat the doping allegations too. Would be great to see the real masters of the trade at work, then try to equal or even beat them. Would love to see Froomes or Sagans face when they get the email saying they have been beaten by a mortal!!!

Pretty sure the ToB stage last year in East Anglia was solely based on my strava segments there; went through almost all of them.

Taken me another year to get all (well... most) of the KoM's back.

Who cares

They were probably doing that 112 kph down coast hill on the run into westcott. I've hit nearly 80kph down there with open roads

I had the same high speed as max speed on the summary but couldn't find it on any other data on the segment sections. HAving gone down mountains (rather than hills) I don't believe those speeds are possible.

errrr..... I think some of those top speeds are erroneous. Speeds taken from GPS are notoriously inaccurate. Nobody could reach 107 km/h off Leith Hill - you can virtually pedal down the whole thing in the 11 sprocket!

This is the best segment to find any pro's you might want to follow http://app.strava.com/segments/4994540

It was set up purely for the Ride and Race. Its easy to find some big names, because they are all up the top

Brliannt. Can you just imagine peoples faces when they received an e-mail telling them they had just lost their segment to Peter Sagan.

I uploaded mine to: http://app.strava.com/activities/72179654

It shows maximum speed to be 107.3km/h which I thought sounded impossible! I was *flying* at some points but can't imagine that's actually real.

Quote taken from the Sustrans website this afternoon:

Sustrans wrote:

THE UTTER B*ST**DS! DROP HANDLED STRAVA USING SCUM! PEOPLE COULD HAVE BEEN WALKING THEIR DOGS ON 75 FOOT LONG LEADS IN THE VICINITY!

(Not really, but they were probably thinking it)