Good Morning,
the feature “use laps” to define intervals is a fine thing.
My request takes this feature one step further:
to all of us Strava segment junkies out there it might be nice to use these segments to define start and end of intervals.
Whenever I go hunting segment placings, I never tap the lap-button of my device, however my effort directly correlates with the segement (I usually try to give it all).
Since intervals.icu is already aware of segments, this might be easy to implement, no?
Cheers
Hauke
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@der_Hauke , in how far is I.icu aware of Strava segments? How can I utilize this in workout analysis?
1st question: go to the activity view of any real world ride.
Underneath the graphical display (power, heartrate etc…) the starva segment is displayed when you hover the mouse over a section that is loacated within a segment.
2nd question: that is what my feature request is about. I don’t know how strava segments can be used today for further analysis
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funny how our two profile pictures match! I first thought this is a bug!
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And was sourced from Strava, not Garmin Connect.
I see. Yes, that would indeed be an interesting feature to base intervals in i.icu on Strava segments! I second the feature request:-)
Problem I see is overlapping segments, which here we have many… Sometimes I have the equivalent of 50 km of Strava segments on a 10 km stretch…
Maybe starred segments could be a mitigation, or a facility to select segments for analysis in the i.icu settings…
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I have this on the todo list already. Overlapping segments are a problem. Intervals.icu just picks “big” segments to choose for the ride timeline chart and it doesn’t really matter if this isn’t always right.
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The overlapping segments will certainly be difficult to decipher since one may want different segment as lap depending on ride.
I am not a Strava segment junky but it would be nice to have certain an individual section extracted when ridden.
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Yes, you are all right. I wasn’t aware of overlapping segments when formulating this request.
So a kind of smart selection would be the icing of the cake - intervals.icu selecting those segments as intervals that show a high level of power from start to end 
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Good idea – but that will likely favor shorter sub-segments of longer (and likely more interesting) segments…
Honestly, I think it needs some user input… For a start a poor-man’s solution using only one’s starred segments would be an option, in the longer run some i.icu user selection would be nice:-)
PS: My 50 km training of last night has ~100 segments in Strava, some of which are >5 km and quite a few are in the 2–4 km range. Plus all these 75 or so short segments that people put into Strava…
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Hello… i am curious to see what type of report you hv in mind with this feature… → right now i don’t really see what would be the use of having segments in intervals, wouldn’t it be just a duplicate of the analysis that strava allows already ?
Thanks!
For one thing, Strava does not even report all recored data.
And in any case the analysis (provided charts and data fields) of i.icu goes a lot further than Strava, which does make it nice for the ones of us who use certain Strava segments as regular “intervals” or “tests”.
Done!
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I would be happy if it supported just the Starred segments, there are tons of junk segments on Strava. And in case of overlapping segnments just use the longer by default. I try not to have overlapping Starred Segments anyway because it confuses the bike computer as well
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Hi @david was this idea implemented?
Using the starred segments is actually a perfect solution for the overlapping issue. I only get my starred segments popping up during my ride, so i actively ride against those,but i dont press lap to start/stop. Therefore, a button to “create intervals from starred segments” in intervals.uce would be very beneficial
And a cherry on top of the cake would be when the intervals table view has a field « strava segment name » that I can add to easily find the segments I’d like to zoom in on.
Yes it did get implemented in a fashion. You can press “V” on the timeline chart to turn the segment under the marker into an interval. Mostly Intervals.icu picks out the “correct” segments for the timeline chart so this works quite well.
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Hi David, is there a tablet equivalent for this? On an iPad for example I don’t think there’s an option to call up the keyboard so pressing “V” isn’t possible. Many thanks.
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