Silly STRAVA Racing

[lejogger]

Well here's a not very silly segment... it's just a nice straight, flat road and I took KOM on the way home from work tonight... on my commuter bike... with rack bag and pannier... and the guy who was KOM is a Team Elite rider with 8 pages of KOMs! I really hope he won't miss this one... I don't want him coming to get it back!!
http://app.strava.com/segments/1736727
Post is irrelevant really apart from me being made up with myself!!

 

[Hacienda71]

Well here's a not very silly segment... it's just a nice straight, flat road and I took KOM on the way home from work tonight... on my commuter bike... with rack bag and pannier... and the guy who was KOM is a Team Elite rider with 8 pages of KOMs! I really hope he won't miss this one... I don't want him coming to get it back!!
http://app.strava.com/segments/1736727
Post is irrelevant really apart from me being made up with myself!!

Have you checked his BPM when he got the KOM

 

[MrJamie]

Have you checked his BPM when he got the KOM

Could that be drafting someone while training with a team? The #2 and #4 guys got similar PBs on the same day.

 

[Hacienda71]

Could that be drafting someone while training with a team? The #2 and #4 guys got similar PBs on the same day.

Yep could be. I lost one to a group of local club racers. No way I could get it back unaided.

 

[colly]

I nabbed a KOM by 1 second at 2mins 1 second on the way home from work last week here: http://app.strava.com/rides/13196744#235360559
Imagine my surprise when last night not only did I receive kudos from the guy I knocked into second place, but he also left a nice comment about whether we could take the time down under 2 minutes!
If it had been the other way around I'd have been calling him all the names under the sun! What a thoroughly nice chap

Next time I'm on the carbon I'll be leaving the rucksack in the office though!

He might just be talking you into a heart attack. Sneaky like.

 

[gaz]

I think its a record of all your KOM's you've ever had, you might have got the KOM on that segment 2 years ago but it has since been beating, if you go back to that ride it still shows a KOM in the details, even though that time may now be 30th

It's fixed now, and they weren't any segments I had ridden previously. They where in sweden :P

 

[middleagecyclist]

Well. 2nd day on Strava and I'm a KOM (actually quite a small incline). It wasn't easy. The rain was lashing down and a taxi started to turn in the road ahead causing me a moments hesitation. I'm sure proper roadies will laugh with scorn at my piddly display of power and speed. I don't care. I've got a Strava KOM at the first attempt!

 

[lejogger]

Well. 2nd day on Strava and I'm a KOM (actually quite a small incline). It wasn't easy. The rain was lashing down and a taxi started to turn in the road ahead causing me a moments hesitation. I'm sure proper roadies will laugh with scorn at my piddly display of power and speed. I don't care. I've got a Strava KOM at the first attempt!

You do realise that now you've posted this, every local CycleChat member is going to be out trying to outdo you?!

I strongly disagree with the email that goes out every time a KOM time is beaten to inform the former leader that they have been bested.
The last thing you want when you've just sneaked one is a pride battered roadie out for revenge the very next day!

 

[middleagecyclist]

You do realise that now you've posted this, every local CycleChat member is going to be out trying to outdo you?!

I strongly disagree with the email that goes out every time a KOM time is beaten to inform the former leader that they have been bested.
The last thing you want when you've just sneaked one is a pride battered roadie out for revenge the very next day!

I don't mind if it goes. I've got my eye on a few others I think I could get temporarily hold!

 

[Hacienda71]

Right lads lets get it.......

 

[potsy]

Right lads lets get it.......

I had a guy on a mtb who was on the pavement jump onto my back wheel yesterday, he was definitely trying his hardest to keep up, little did he know we were just getting to the segment I was ready to attack, would have loved to have seen his face as I shot off at nearly 30mph

Saying that I was really hoping I'd dropped him or it would have been highly embarassing

 

[middleagecyclist]

Right lads lets get it.......

Ooops!

 

[Edwards80]

I had a guy on a mtb who was on the pavement jump onto my back wheel yesterday, he was definitely trying his hardest to keep up, little did he know we were just getting to the segment I was ready to attack, would have loved to have seen his face as I shot off at nearly 30mph

Saying that I was really hoping I'd dropped him or it would have been highly embarassing

Had a chap hop onto my wheel today and I thought he was going to engage in some SCR. Forgot about the section we were going through ( http://app.strava.com/rides/13839725#254836623 ) until it popped up just now - Look who I matched times with

 

[Hacienda71]

Had a chap hop onto my wheel today and I thought he was going to engage in some SCR. Forgot about the section we were going through ( http://app.strava.com/rides/13839725#254836623 ) until it popped up just now - Look who I matched times with

Oh dear you could incur the wrath of POTSY

 

[potsy]

Had a chap hop onto my wheel today and I thought he was going to engage in some SCR. Forgot about the section we were going through ( http://app.strava.com/rides/13839725#254836623 ) until it popped up just now - Look who I matched times with

I was saving myself for the above mentioned segment, this was just a little leg loosener

Oh dear you could incur the wrath of POTSY