yeah that is easy

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
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Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

ha

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Ha, yeah, it takes the obsession level up another couple notches.

Some courses are more interesting than others to compare, like a RR we recently had that starts with a 20 mile climb and then long descent. You could see where the goats pulled away and then the good descenders closed in on them. Same for TTs, especially those that have wind/hill/technical sections.

If you google Strava, the 3rd result is How To Cheat At Strava.

How to Cheat at Strava | Marc Pro - Strava
That IMC cheater doode is gonna have a field day with this!!

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float , hammer , and jog

That's comedy!

I live in an area with limited riding opportunity (read: city), and most of the places to ride also have frequent races. I would venture a guess that 100% of the KOMs on my typical rides are won during races with huge draft benefit. You just aren't going to head out the door on a training ride and get anywhere close.

Just something else to consider when looking at some of the times.

i especially like the fact that with the "segment search" function I've found new hills to climb. Its helped me to mix it up & not just ride the exact same roads all the time.

But I got a bunch of KOMs on the Rev3 Quassy course "stolen" from me by Jesse Thomas two weeks ago... darned pros come into town and steal my local thunder :)

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet:

I don't have a problem with any of it. I love strava. When people post "nice easy spin" and you can see they freakin hammered it, I just don't get the logic.

The other side of the coin is - if people dont' have a powermeter most of the time - they have no comprehension of what "easy" is, and even then sometimes they don't.

ROFL

I love me some strava, but I only compare myself to my previous times to see when I get better. KOM's ain't happening so I don't worry about it

I have a handful of KOM's, but they're all on hills that I GO DOWN. Not sure how Strava turns that into a KOM.

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Dale Stephanos (Formerly PappaD)

I've become a pretty big fan of strava. I'm usually riding solo, so finding some good motivation can be a challenge. What I've been doing the last couple of weeks is plotting rides to go KOM hunting. I'll plot a ride that hits a bunch of segments and do them pretty much all out and then ride easy between them. For me, that ends up working out to be much better interval training than I usually do; I've averaged higher TSS and IF on these type of rides than most of my normal rides. It was a little disheartening when some tri pros uploaded their times on top of my few KOMs, but I'm slowly getting some back by waiting for good wind conditions. Not sure if I'm supposed to feel guilty about that or not ;) Just glad that the really fast pros didn't upload their untouchable times.

Last night on a group ride I lost a KOM I previously had to another guy in our group who entered the segment on the back and ended on the front. I took a couple of hard pulls during the segment. This is basically like taking a few pulls when you have a teammate in the break, except in this case the teammate was me.

When someone grabs one of the more popular local KOMs, there is typically a little online interrogation that goes on in the comment section of their ride. They are pretty funny as people ask about all those "cheats". Most of the cheats don't have as big an impact on actual climb segments, but I think I owe a couple of my downhill/flat KOMs to good wind conditions.

I'm not a frequent Strava user but I decided to use for a little while just to mess with some douche that was showing up to one of the group rides that I frequent. All he could talk about was his Strava results, the KOMs he was bagging, blah, blah, blah. Honestly, he's a faster rider than me and I would have had a hard time actually knocking him down the standings. But, I got so sick of his bragging that over the course of a month, I took my Garmin for several drives in my car and broke all of his Strava "records". I didn't go out and drive 50mph and blow them away. Instead, I drove just fast enough that the times/speeds were within the realm of possibility, but still just of reach for him. Pissed him off to no end. I don't see him around much anymore and I deleted the account anyways so I'm not sure if he's bragging about his success again.

Bingo. It happens. There are sad little men (and women) the world over. They all pile onto the lap skipping, pull buoy carrying loser pile IMO.

It's just a fun little way to log workouts and get a little competitive juice flowing now and then when someone snags your KOM.

Guess who is a bigger douche then the guy talking about his strava results?

I thought it was funny, but to each his own.

You are on a roll today. Put down the aero helmet and pic up a microphone. Comedy needs you :)

Someone should create a Strava challenge. See who can hunt the most KOMs in two weeks or something.
Since I started Strava if I go for a ride and don't come home with a KOM I feel like I completely failed, even if it is an easy spin like today.

+1
I was kinda hoping he was just joking and that he didn't really do that, but I guess not.

So when you are planning your ride, what gets you more motivated, stealing some low hanging fruit KOM, or bumping your rank on some highly contested segment that you know you have no chance of KOMing?

Low hanging fruit. Every day, and twice on Sunday.

I've done some segments I'd never even thought of riding, simply to nab an obscure local KOM. Ya never know for sure if you'll get it or not, so having to hammer your azz off anyway is always fun.

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float , hammer , and jog

Nice. I like the low hanging fruit too, although what often happens is that someone else notices that I went cherry picking and then the battle begins. Part of the fun for me is trying to defend my "turf". The really fast guys I know don't seem to notice any of this; they KOM all over the place without even trying. I have to plot my course carefully and then turn myself inside out ;)