Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
KOMs ain’t ****, but if you get mine while paceline working you damn better take it by more than a single lousy second lazy slob. Pshhhh.
Lol.
I almost never take Strava seriously, but I've been chasing a few special ones that are held by grouprides. I'm 28 seconds off of a 17-min segment that's held by two guys that tag-teamed it at a 350W average. I take a huge amount of pleasure in sending people "Uh Oh" emails that cause them to call their friends and be like "dude, you remember that segment we crushed? Well, I hope you're feeling frisky..."
Doubly delicious when I take segments held by E-bikes.
I had a conversation with a group of guys in the place I used to live about Strava (I hold hundreds of KOM's in that area). I told them there are only 5 KOM's that I hold dear out of everything I own, and I only value them because of how many grouprides specifically targeted them and (luckily) narrowly missed.