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What I listened to before, during and after the KOM
…actually how do you respond to a flag anyway?
USA...USA...USA...
no one gives a shit about strava times, it’s not real racing
Speak for yourself op! It's like KOM ping pong over here!
All those serious cxers seriously in the mix.
Tested the powermeter today and botched a sprint up da bridge going out too hard https://www.strava.com/activities/3336631879
But why is my power and hr data only showing on my profile and not on the segment view??
No idea what you should tell Strava, but I don't really get the hating for going for KOMs. Yes it's pointless but it's a bit of fun, and yes it probably doesn't mean much on such a short segment given the variation in timing you can get, but then surely deleting the segment is the solution.
Having said that, a 13mph average speed with a segment like that would raise my eyebrow if I was strava stalking the leaderboard, no that I'd ever be so sad obvs.
One of the segments I had (which was on my commute, therefore I've had all the weather possible on it) got taken by someone who I knew was a bit slower than me. But it turned out he'd got a friendly HGV driver in front of him for the full segment, I just found one half way along it. 🙂
Ah it was showing and old segment or smth, set it to private and now it works - very exciting I know. https://www.strava.com/segments/23383924
You bought and wear someone's sweat filled skin rubbed second hand lycra jersey .yuk!
More aero that way.
OP
Since you're new to strava you may not know this or maybe you have done it already.
But you should set up 'PRIVACY ZONE' This means that the public wont be able to see exactly where your ride starts and ends. Its not the best idea to broadcast where you live and keep your expensive bikes...
Settings>>>Privacy Controls>>>Additonal settings>>>Privacy zones
This lets you hide your exact location.
Thx! Done, do I somehow need to update old segments with it?
Nah I think it hides all automatically
Mr yohandsome, I applaud your energy and attitude, particularly in the face of all the grumpies on here.
Here's to many more KOMs in the future.
but I don’t really get the hating for going for KOMs
Nor me, I used to enjoy getting them but can't get close to them now as they were 5 years ago and a bit of difference in performance between mid 40's and over 50 sadly.
Saying that I don't really count the odd short ones as they are only proving that you are the fastest person from a very small group of people who probably haven't even been trying on that segment. A segment needs to have a 1,000+ people on it along with some known local fast names at the top to give the right perspective. Cool story - Dan Lloyd (GCN) is in top 5 of most of the segments where I ride and goes without saying he was pretty fast back in 2012.