Tripleshot Cycling

So, the heat map is scrollable and zoomable and all kinds of geeky happiness these days:

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14/-123 ... /blue/bike

If you want to know where people go, or get ideas for rides? This is the thing. I spent too much time looking at Thetis Lake Park and blinking back and forth between bike and run traces: we use the park very differently. Inexplicably, runners haven't found the Lighthouse trail yet.

But then I started zooming around the city and noticing splatters here and there. One at Western Speedway. More near downtown traffic lights. Hmmm. "What's that? Places cyclists have been stopped?" I wondered. Then I saw splatters at Pareto. And OBB. And Russ Hays. Yep. It's where we wait.

And then I spotted the splatters at Disco James Bay, Moka House Shoal Point, and the Cook St. Village. I am sorry to say that it appears that Sbux is out-performing Moka.

The cumulative layers of all our traces is hilarious and wonderful. I can't stop panning around. Look! We always leave Fairfield Plaza out the eastern driveway on Sunday mornings! Look! All those people at the Hub and Spoke left a trace! Look! There's a faint hint of the way those CX nutbars skirted the Sooke watershed!

I love this thing.

Thanks for the laugh. I liked the red hot spot at cafe fantastico and the red trail going up Mt. Tomlie. Good to see that some riders go up Tolmie regularly.

That's really cool.

I can see the attempt up the logging road that degenerated into a dead end before we turned around and climbed around the watershed gate from the first time we did the sooke to shawnigan cx ride

Starva heat maps are the best things ever for finding the good routes in new places.