Originally Posted by
drewguy
I think a few years ago Strava changed this so that your first time on a segment became a PR. Complaints were many, because users thought it a bit silly to have every segment be a PR when one was biking in a new area/route. Strava rolled back to the previous and current approach - achievements only for the second and after ride.
It spawned a thread on the Strava support board where one of the more interesting suggestions was a "first time" badge/achievement for a new (to you) segment so that you would see an indicator for at least that.
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/...-first-attempt
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/...ting-a-segment
Remember when they wiped all the KOMs clean on January 1st one year? I looked pretty strong for a couple weeks until all the local strong guys got back on their bikes
I think there was a lot of kvetching about that, too. They haven't done it since.