Is there a list somewhere?
I know there is a professional list but they seem to all be USA based cyclists or mtn bikers.
But I’m obviously interested in Triathletes.
???
I’ve seen Jesse Thomas post a lot of workouts on there:
http://app.strava.com/athletes/338915
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Lance Armstrong, former pro triathlete until he got banned, is on Strava 
There’s a lot of sh*ttalking on all his activities though lol.
Is there a list somewhere?
I know there is a professional list but they seem to all be USA based cyclists or mtn bikers.
But I’m obviously interested in Triathletes.
???
Ronnie Schildtnecht (owner of ironman zurich) is on there
Lance Armstrong, former pro triathlete until he got banned, is on Strava
There’s a lot of sh*ttalking on all his activities though lol.
http://app.strava.com/athletes/125154]
I was following him on Strava just to see his workouts, but he is no longer on my follow list. I did a search on him and he is listed with ZERO activities and when I clicked on his name, Strava gave me an error that said the file didn’t exist. Did he drop his Strava account now?
I’m not sure why any professional athlete is on Strava.
Keep your training secret, don’t give any information to your competitors.
I use Strava but only for specific activities and workouts. You’d never be able to piece together my training from my public strava.
I’m not sure why any professional athlete is on Strava.
Keep your training secret, don’t give any information to your competitors.
I use Strava but only for specific activities and workouts. You’d never be able to piece together my training from my public strava.
They are probably posting only the recovery efforts, or easy long aerobic efforts. No way any of them would post the race pace info.
LA’s average bike speeds on strava were 16-17 mph. Basically a ride through town, stopping at the lights and intersections.
I’m only coming into my 2nd year as a pro but I post my training on strava if you are interested. I’m currently training out in the south of Spain. My name is joe skipper and I think my location is registered as manchester England.
I post pretty much all of my bike and run training up on there. My best results last year were 5th IMUK 70.3, 8th Galway 70.3, 15th European championships 70.3 and 5th Challenge Barcelona ironman 8h 23.
Keep your training secret, don’t give any information to your competitors.
Well, you could pysche out your competitors. If you have competitors going through the effort to try to piece together your training, they’re thinking about you a lot. Advantage you!
I don’t understand why it matters who sees their training.
I agree, its the difference between knowing someone is fast or not knowing, does it really matter on race day, both of us are going as hard as we can. Same thing with power numbers, its not an advantage to keep it a secret, how do I gain an advantage on you if I know your FTP?
I think ideally, you need to be concerned about another coach or coaches using your training principles on his athletes. If you feel that your coach is the best and really gets it, I can understand not wanting others to gain some benefit in their training from reviewing yours. Some athletes won’t care about that and some will. Any advantage you can keep close to your chest, do so.
Well there’s a lot more to training than, ‘I did this workout one day’ which is mostly what Strava is for most people, a patchwork of random workouts . We already know what works in terms of training, the key is applying it specifically to a person and tailoring it to how they progress physically throughout the season, it takes a lot of interaction with a coach or experience if you’re training yourself. I truly doubt there is anything to be gleaned from even looking at a persons whole training diary, the variables to control are endless, all you can really say is ‘whatever he’s been doing has worked for him in his specific case’. The secrecy mentality bugs me, a lot of times the athletes themselves don’t know why they had a bad performance or season, basically we’re all just making educated guesses with regard to training, not really knowing if it’s working til race day or after the season.
While I agree that fitting workouts to the individual is key, there is a lot to be gained from viewing all the workouts of a given athlete. I will openly admit that I don’t know the specifics of who, what or how much is normal for someone to post on Strava.
If you know what you are doing and understand training stresses, you can gain a lot from viewing the full training logs of professional or high level triathletes. While many know various ways of getting fit in one or two sports, there is a lot to be learned across the board in triathlon in how to successfully integrate the 3 different disciplines at a high level. While this varies for different types of athletes with different backgrounds, there is much unknown by a vast majority. Keeping those things close, those coaches/athletes can keep themselves at the top for longer.
I can certainly understand your frustration in wanting to see and know more - as would I but that is the way it is.
Unfortunately, Strava doesn’t allow pro triathletes to use the “pro” designation on their site. I think that for a triathlete to get a lot of public Strava followers would be the equivalent of getting a lot of Twitter followers. It could be very good for their career in terms of social media, sponsors, etc. I don’t see that big of a downside to sharing your training publicly though.
I use Strava regularly, BUT it typically malfunctions so badly that you wouldn’t be able to figure out where I ride anyway. Some rides show me riding in the ocean. Others show me averaging 300mph (or 8mph). I wish they would fix those glitches…
While I agree that fitting workouts to the individual is key, there is a lot to be gained from viewing all the workouts of a given athlete. I will openly admit that I don’t know the specifics of who, what or how much is normal for someone to post on Strava.
I only post workouts where I ride like a boss.
I know of a few who post everything. I really only post workouts that seem “worth it” (i.e. in the sense that I may think I got a KOM) or when I ride somewhere cool (i.e. Mt Lemmon in Tucson or somewhere in the NC mountains) as that is the least time consuming to most satisfaction ratio strategy I think.
I am no pro- but I have been using Strava to track all of my workouts - helps me sum up weekly volume and stay organized. So this includes manually uploaded trainer and treadmill sessions, and showing the easy and bad workouts as well. Strava is social and I am a big fan, but I am also trying to make it work for me.
You also need to keep an eye on Strava’s accuracy.
I recently set a world class time for 400m (45sec) while on a walk/run interval workout in the park. Also set a new world record of 1.54 for 1km during the same workout, clearly beating the time of Noah Ngeny from Kenya. His time is 2:11:96.
Its not often you have a morning like that.
Simon Whitfield is on there. He hasn’t posted in a while, but has the odd ride/tt/run on there.
“I recently set a world class time for 400m (45sec) while on a walk/run interval workout in the park.”
lightweight! I ran 400m in 16 seconds last week. A few weeks ago I set a world-best 3:19 mile, too.
funny, I haven’t gotten a call making sure I’m going to Rio in '16 from it. They must like to make you wait, you know, so they don’t seem too eager.
(Strava will take your erroneous data bits out if you send a request to their zendesk, though)