Strava - useful functions

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Thanks Bruce for the tip on creating Segments in Strava.
I just tried it and it works so well!

As per Strava help page, the segments need to be created not on mobile apps. Also I can do it as a non-subscriber.
I used my pc and was able to create a segment (specific climb from bottom to top) and it created it. “Bay Run to Five Dock park climb”

And what is great is that I can retrospectively see all the previous times/data as I passed thru that newly created segment!

Also, while I was setting the start and end points of the segment, I could see the exact grade at fine increments along the segment!

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No worries. I’m only a subscriber as it was a gift. Of all the subscriber benefits there is only one that I use which is segment analysis. You can see the segment grade, speed, heart rate and cadence. Here is one of your segments, the aptly named one

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And you can compare your effort to KOM, which means a bike, or your own previous.

Other than that, I find no advantage to paying.

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I didn’t know it would include past completed “real-world segments” in the newly-created Strava segment. That’s great!