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Climbpro

JeffMKilarski
over 5 years ago

Used my Edge 530 for first time today, loaded in a course, have Climbpro option selected and the feature never came on during the ride. It does not even show up as an option to view when the course is loaded. Not sure what I am missing.  Thanks for the help. 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Did the climbs meet the criteria of length and % that I have read about

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    It sounds like the course may not have met the ClimbPro criteria.

    This might help.

    How does ClimbPro identify the climbs it will report?

    ClimbPro will identify and report climbs at two different levels. ClimbPro users a scoring system to select climbs.

    Climb Score = length of the climb(meters) x grade(percent)

    ClimbPro then uses the climb score to select and classify climbs.

    At the macro level ClimbPro will identify categorized climbs on the Elevation page when navigating or on the Elevation page when previewing a course.

    In professional road cycling the process for categorizing climbs is subjective and is controlled by the race organizers who will take into consideration what the riders have already climbed when categorizing each climb.  ClimbPro use an objective measure and treats each hill in isolation using the following climb score values:

    • Cat 4 > 8000
    • Cat 3 > 16000
    • Cat 2 > 32000
    • Cat 1 > 48000
    • HC (Hors Category) > 64000

    Categorized climbs are identified on the elevation page using the following colors.

     

    Elevation Page

     

    Category

    Color

    None (< Cat. 4)

    Green (Default color)

    Cat. 4

    Green

    Cat. 3

    Yellow/Gold

    Cat. 2

    Orange

    Cat. 1

    Red

    HC

    Dark Red

     

    In addition to identifying the categorized climbs on the elevation page ClimbPro also identifies climbs at the micro level. These climbs are reported in a list and can be individually previewed when reviewing the course and will be reported on the ClimbPro page when you are on the climb.

    The rules for considering a climb are listed below. All rules must be satisfied.

    1. At least 500 meters in length
    2. Average grade of 3% or more
    3. At least 3500 points in climb score

     

            Here are some examples to illustrate the rules:

    1. 700 meters in length with average grade 3%. It’s NOT a climb (Rule 3)
    2. 5 kilometers in length with average grade 3%. Is a climb.
    3. 500 meters in length with average grade 7%. Is a climb.
    4. 500 meters in length with average grade 6%. It’s NOT a climb (Rule 3)
    5. 450 meters in length with average grade 15%. It’s NOT a climb (Rule 1)
    6. Total climb 20 kilometers in length, first 5 km with average grade 6% and the rest (15km) with an average grade of 1.5% It’s NOT a climb (Rule 2). Note ClimbPro will identify a shorter climb, bit not the 20km climb.

     

    This algorithm does not guarantee the summit of climb will be included in a climb if it flattens out near the top, consider example[f].

     

    When on the ClimbPro page the profile is broken down into sections for the grade and uses the following coloring. Currently the minimum section length for grade coloring is 500 meters.

    ClimbPro Page

    Elevation Page

     

     

    Grade Zone

    Category

    Color

    <0%

    None (< Cat. 4)

    Green (Default color)

    0~3%

    Cat. 4

    Green

    3~6%

    Cat. 3

    Yellow/Gold

    6~9%

    Cat. 2

    Orange

    9~12%

    Cat. 1

    Red

    >12%

    HC

    Dark Red

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I thought about that because I live near Dallas and not much around here is a climb but have to believe so 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to JeffMKilarski

    Guess nothing I did today was considered a climb. Made up another route in California and it worked. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I am struggling with climbpro. Not because it doesn't work. But sadly because it does! Why is that a problem? Well, because if you are roughly interested in a route you are following it provides ok data. (OK, so in your case it isn't giving you anything, but in all honesty you are not missing much, an orange colour changing to dark red? So what?)

    But what if you are tackling a segment on a climb? Let's say you are interested in a hill TT. You may have even specified a segment. (Strava Starred, let's say) Climbpro gives you generic hill data. Quite nice. But you don't want general info - you can probably see the road is going up! No, what you wan to know is that you are 3.2 km into an 11.6 km climb have averaged 5% so far but there is an 8% section for 5km before a final false flat to the chequered flag which may be before or after the robot determined 'summit' in climbpro. 

    To give it some credit, if you are on roads that you are not familiar with, it can give you some idea of the impending hill to come. Not in a much more useful way than the elevation page did tho. So why all the fuss? ANd why the heck two data screens to show pretty much what one can do?

    And then I saw your ride 264' elevation change mmmmmmmm you got no hills so you definitely don't need to worry about climbpro not turning on! Enjoy the flatlands

    There may be overlapping segments?