I noticed I can look at how I rank among over 250 lb riders on local segments. I clicked on the profile of the guy in 1st on several segments and it shows a photo of him with his cycling team and he’s the same size as everyone else, maybe 150 lbs. There’s a girl who ranks high on a lot of segments. In her photo, she looks 130 lbs at the most.
In fact, in quick clicking, of those who had photos, only one guy in the top 10 looks like he’s over 250. He looks to be about my size and my age and if I can find a non-creepy way to contact him, he might be a good training partner.
Everyone else looks like a weight cheat! I’m outraged!
Not really outraged, I don’t take being the fastest fat guy very seriously, I’m more just curious about it, but it makes having that category pointless.
I suspect when the filthy cheaters put in their weight as 130 lbs or whatever, they had the kg box checked and it recorded the weight as 130 kg (287 lbs).
I suppose I could start contacting them and asking them to check their weight settings, but I’m not going to bother with that.
I had a fake age on Strava, didn’t think it mattered for anything.
I was on the free version, so I was unaware of those sorting capabilities.
(I’m not a big fan of putting my actual DOB out on the interwebs and begging for Identity Theft - YMMV)
But then somebody commented about how great it was to see “an older guy†like me riding as well as I was - so I fessed up that was wasn’t actually that old, and then changed it to at least the correct year now.
But mostly - there are a LOT of TOTALLY CLUELESS people on Strava.
So - I’d go with the assumption that those errors are lazy &/or stupid.
