Originally Posted by
mattm
Actually Strava is a pretty big deal.
I mean think about it - no longer do you need to get up early and drive to compete, much less rub elbows and crash!!
Now you can just turn on the app, roll out of the driveway, and you're the next Armstrong.
The best part is that you can team up with people like a TTT and grab "KOMs" from unsuspecting dolts who are trying really hard to top some list of people.
Lol, Strava.
I was one of the first around here to sign up for it, and I remember I had a KOM and I saw 3 guys TTT'ing on that segment. Next day it was gone!
Some take it pretty seriously around here; some guys that are a lot faster than me. There are too many variables to really take the Segment competition too seriously. Adding the fact that several of the KOM's were obviously achieved by motorized transport, I find it more of a social networking tool and a way to monitor my own improvement over certain segments.