Just glad you & the bike came out ok 35dollars. Look forward to your rtn Wed.

Regarding the member I referred to earlier in this thread, yes I may have stated her as a d..., but she bloomin well deserved it, over reaction, not from where I'm standing.

As far as the Strava challenges league & CycLeagues goes shes certainly not welcome, slagging off a system that I've put my time, effort and money into with no consideration apart from her own impatience is not something I'll accept from anyone, I've said the background fetch has a tendency to drop any time it feels like it time and time again, this is a well known issue, I made this clear to her the first time it went down, she was well aware but still chose to not only complain but bad mouth the system, this shows nothing but a serious lack of consideration for those who have stuck a heap of time into a system which is there to help a small group of people motivate, you may judge my reaction to chuck her out of the Strava group and CycLeagues a knee-jerk over reaction but from where I'm standing it is not, I'd make the same decision time and time again whoever behaved in that manor, if this was a professional system where we were charging then you have to pander to these kind of people but it's not, it's an unfinished small community project where those involved have spent there own spare time trying to do something that is useful to others, it's in its infancy, teething problems and big issue will occur, constructive criticism is welcome, stamping feet and behaving like a child is not.

A project like this needs support and ideas to be built up, I know we have 30+ members who like and use the system and I'm not one for letting people down if I can help it, I'd like to improve it and perhaps turn it into something better but that won't happen if we have people like *her named above* behave the way they do, you just think 'why am I bothering', call time and spend time it on something more rewarding.

So for anyone wondering why I got worked up I hope this explains why, it just so happens that I was setting off for a three day holiday cycling tour up Yorkshire at the time so the timing was not good to say the least.

Appreciate the comments Mark, I'm sorry for her team mates but she had to go, her miles will count upto the last import so as not to impact the team retrospectively, however automation wise her rides will no longer be picked up, if you wish you can add her rides in manually but thats your call.

I'm not looking to ditch just because of one bad egg, as long as people want it then it will be there and hopefully be a lot better. I'll gauge interest with how much it's used over Summer/Winter and take it from there, if interest falls short then I can sort you out with a background automation process that you can use Mark as a starter if you wanted it.

Another sad and horrifying day in for cops in America. There has to be a stop to all the hatred. Does anyone live somewhere I can move where it people aren't so angry?

I'm afraid we have a big issue to contend with, Strava have changed something, meaning it no longer allows polling in the same manor in which it did before, it looks like once you've made the connection to Strava it allows the fetch once, you then have to disconnect and connect again, at least what it looks like currently, leaving my fetch routine running only fetches the first time and then nothing unless I shut the process down and try again making it a manual start and stop process, I can do this a few times in the day at work however I'm away again Friday to Sunday and I may not get round to sorting a workaround by then, I will have a good look though to see what I can do but this doesn't bode well for us, Strava have form for screwing people over which you can read here : http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/07/cutting-removing-functionality.html

I'll be doing manual triggered calls Tuesday to Thursday at work, and I may have a workaround for the coming weekend while away however we may be faced with the real possibility that Friday to Sunday will have to be manual logging.

I have no complaints with the programming. I really enjoy seeing the challenge. It has gotten me to die a couple more times than I would have. If only the top rider didn't get so many miles. Actually, I am quite impressed you have time to ride so many miles and still volunteer your time for programming. Thank you for your work.

Worked too quick with my ride today. By the time I got to cycleagues, both devices had recorded. Thanks to Mark for telling me to go to rides to delete one of them.

Found that a new issue occurs with the Strava pull, sometimes when calling to fetch the data it keeps hold of the process so the routine effectively hangs with no timeout, it's a bit like starting a handshake with someone and the other person refusing to let go, I'm calling it the Strava death grip, a new glitch with the Strava API .... who knows .... bah, anyway I have a cunning plan to change from a timed loop to spawning off timed independent working threads, so even if one process hangs another fetch can still be initiated.

I think what I may do is abandon the whole Strava background fetch process and just do a fetch when someone logs in and add a fetch button. The Strava API is just too unreliable to constantly poll.