Uh oh! You just lost your KOM on . . .

Orkneylad

Not a great feeling, can remember how much it hurt to get it.....not helped by the fact that he was seemingly pumping out 400w/hr average and is 20 years my junior.

Boo!!

Now. Where does one go for therapy?

sloppyschleckonds

Move to a location where hardly anyone rides?

Orkneylad

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

Move to a location where hardly anyone rides?

hehe probably no 'fun' in that either.....I can see a dystopian future ahead where that tidy brace of wee crowns disappear one by one, and my legs only get weaker......Oh wait, that's already here.....meh!!

webboo

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

Move to a location where hardly anyone rides?

lesfirth

Do not dwell on the past. Just click on your age group and ignore all the kids. There is usually some geriatric superman who you have to battle against.

dabber

lesfirth wrote:

Do not dwell on the past. Just click on your age group and ignore all the kids. There is usually some geriatric superman who you have to battle against.

LOL... that's just what I do ... there are plenty of 70-74s to give me trouble :shock:

Orkneylad

lesfirth wrote:

Do not dwell on the past. Just click on your age group and ignore all the kids. There is usually some geriatric superman who you have to battle against.

Good advice. Probably will try to take it!

What I really need is an 'Old Man of the Mountains' category . . . . if I need to grow a flowing white beard for that, so be it.

pilot_pete

Or you could just ride your bike for enjoyment rather than keep searching for the strongest windy days to try to prove yourself the fastest...

PP

drhaggis

Or, you could go to the Canaries, or Girona, where pros spend the winter, or San Sebastian (1 day race last w/e of July) so when you see KOM's owned by Kwiato, or GvA or Thibaut Pinot or the likes, you don't feel nearly as bad.

EDIT: Just for laughs, because I've spent some holidays there, I went and took a look at the last climb of the Clasica San sebastian:
https://www.strava.com/segments/7692880

The first non-pro cyclist is in 24th... and is a pro triathlete. The best attempt that I can't relate to a pro rider or a pro triathlon is at no. 62, a mere 4 minutes slower than Kwiato last year.

Edinburgh is still safe from the hands of pros, but only because it was only the start of last year's Tour of Britain.

Orkneylad

@DrHaggis

Yep it isn't so bad when you see some monster smash your KOM by minutes, worse when it's a second or so.....excruciating! Mind you, I can now appreciate the 'anguish' of those I've given a close haircut.....what goes around comes around.

jollygiant

I always think, well I did my best on that day to get KOM and they did theirs today. Then look at their age and say yup they should have beaten me as they are x amount of years younger.

I am nearly 48 and if it takes someone 10 years younger to beat me, then I'm doing pretty good in my eyes.

veronese68

Lose my KOM? Well that's never going to happen :oops:

roger_merriman

Veronese68 wrote:

Lose my KOM? Well that's never going to happen :oops:

I apparently I have two, one I think is mostly though it’s somewhere popular it’s a slightly less used route, only a few Seconds in it anyway. The other is steep wet climb and has grand total of 10 people! I suspect most wherent daft enough to attempt to ride it hence I’m a few mins ahead!

eric_draven

DrHaggis wrote:

Or, you could go to the Canaries, or Girona, where pros spend the winter, or San Sebastian (1 day race last w/e of July) so when you see KOM's owned by Kwiato, or GvA or Thibaut Pinot or the likes, you don't feel nearly as bad.

EDIT: Just for laughs, because I've spent some holidays there, I went and took a look at the last climb of the Clasica San sebastian:
https://www.strava.com/segments/7692880

The first non-pro cyclist is in 24th... and is a pro triathlete. The best attempt that I can't relate to a pro rider or a pro triathlon is at no. 62, a mere 4 minutes slower than Kwiato last year.

Edinburgh is still safe from the hands of pros, but only because it was only the start of last year's Tour of Britain.

I'm still trying to get under twice the time of one of the Yates brothers, on one of the climbs round here after they used it on the Tour de Yorkshire

kingstongraham

Veronese68 wrote:

Lose my KOM? Well that's never going to happen :oops:

Likewise... I occasionally get one saying I've lost a running KOM because a proper runner has finally done that segment.

lakesluddite

What's a KOM?

naavt

LakesLuddite wrote:

What's a KOM?

KOM = Kickoff Meeting! These guys are all skipping work to ride a bicycle! pfff...

jrich

I get this stupid message every week because I made the mistake of taking some KOMs just down the road from Woburn mountain bike park - every weekend it's guaranteed that a least one numpty will leave their Garmin running in the car as they drive home. I'd almost welcome someone depriving me of those KOMs.

keef66

I'm almost certainly the slowest cyclist round here, in my age group or otherwise, but having nothing to do with Strava means I'll never have it confirmed...

Ignorance in my case is definitely bliss

okgo

I've had about 100 of these emails since the new year. Only 1 has proved to be actually legit.

proto

Mate of mine, female, recently took one of the Girona climbs off Ashleigh Moolman, which I thought pretty cool.

neeb

The opposite of this is when you discover you have a KOM 2 years after the event, because someone has subsequently designed a segment you already have the fastest time on (I only have two KOMs but bizzarely the only worthwhile one is of that type).

JoshH79

Probably worse when you’ve got a running KOM (or equivalent) and you get that notification to say someone’s taken it and it’s some guy who’s done a thirty mile ‘run’ at pretty much marathon world record pace.

Flipping cyclists

MiddleRinger

It's all relative. I've got a couple of KOMs out here, but only because there's a lot less cyclists than when I was in Surrey and the fastest ones haven't ridden those segments hard. My days of worrying about Strava leader boards a long behind me.

I do still hate receiving that email though...... lol ;-)

burnthesheep

Not KOM related, but it's funny. A guy that started out riding by doing pub rides has started doing real group rides now. Good for him. However, he has a horrible habit of posting a very short ride of about 7 miles as "21 MPH SOLO, BY MYSELF".

But, then they post the 7 miles return route home separate later and you see them plodding along at 14mph. The 21mph being done downwind as well, the wind here is out of the west 90% of the time.

charlie_potatoes

You can turn off those email notifications if it bothers you.

drhaggis

I don't have that problem: I don't have any friends in Strava. Now that I think about it, I don't have many friends in real life either...

ben@31

I'm sure I read on this forum that one guy was so fed up of the people stealing KOM's thing, that he created a segment that finished up his driveway and into his garage.

I frequently have people taking one on my KOMs (very few, from years ago) and when I look into it. It's someone who had been mountain biking in the forrest down the road and amazingly managed to do 70mph all the way home !

cyberknight

lesfirth wrote:

Do not dwell on the past. Just click on your age group and ignore all the kids. There is usually some geriatric superman who you have to battle against.

LOL
Or in my case an ex pro who runs the bike fitting service