Should I take my Strava segment chasing to the next level?

Please do it!

Take his crowns and brag about taking the segments using the same language he does!

Find a girlfriend/boyfriend and get a life.

frumpkin wrote:

Find a girlfriend/boyfriend and get a life.

Not good advice. He's living in a small town for the summer so getting a GF/BF or a "life" would not be easy and would likely be more hassle than it's worth. I say keep grabbing those KOMs. Keep the ball rolling.

Absolutely.

I own a significant number of KOM's in my local area. There a particular Triathlete who is awfully arrogant about his runs, for an age grouper he is not bad!

I make sure he never holds a running segment for more than a couple days - He gets pissed, it is entertaining.

frumpkin wrote:

Find a girlfriend/boyfriend and get a life.

Would definitely make the couple hour car ride more enjoyable!

Hardloper wrote:

frumpkin wrote:

Find a girlfriend/boyfriend and get a life.

Not good advice. He's living in a small town for the summer so getting a GF/BF or a "life" would not be easy and would likely be more hassle than it's worth. I say keep grabbing those KOMs. Keep the ball rolling.

+1

Yes steal it and update us!!!

That would be hilarious. I always liked the bit in Raiders of the Lost Ark:

"Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away."

How far apart are the segments around your small town? Would it be feasible to retake them two or three at a time, just to show your rival you don't have to focus your whole run around hammering a single effort to get the crown?

I don't go on strava often but is it possible to simply run the segments in this town enough where you bump all of his results off of the top ten? Or is it the kind of thing where only a users fastest time is on the list? It would be devastating if he drove all the way down to try to get on the top and find that he's incapable of even making the top ten.

Next level is taking them all in one run.

Or, if that's not feasible. Taking them all over a consecutive number of days, but not uploading them until you're done.

Then uploading all at once so he gets all the emails at the same time.

That's next level.

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

I don't go on strava often but is it possible to simply run the segments in this town enough where you bump all of his results off of the top ten? Or is it the kind of thing where only a users fastest time is on the list? It would be devastating if he drove all the way down to try to get on the top and find that he's incapable of even making the top ten.

Unfortunately only the top result for each runner shows on the leaderboard. Would require me recruiting much more runners to hammer these segments.

Jimmy James wrote:

That would be hilarious. I always liked the bit in Raiders of the Lost Ark:

"Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away."

How far apart are the segments around your small town? Would it be feasible to retake them two or three at a time, just to show your rival you don't have to focus your whole run around hammering a single effort to get the crown?

I may have to start doing that. They are not far apart but would require lots of doubling back and strange looking loops.

Remember the Australian cyclist who had a breakdown and told some guy he was "ruining his life" and targeting him. Most segments are dipshits making one for each of their random all out sprints that no one else even knows where they start or end.

Strava trolling wrote:

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

I don't go on strava often but is it possible to simply run the segments in this town enough where you bump all of his results off of the top ten? Or is it the kind of thing where only a users fastest time is on the list? It would be devastating if he drove all the way down to try to get on the top and find that he's incapable of even making the top ten.

Unfortunately only the top result for each runner shows on the leaderboard. Would require me recruiting much more runners to hammer these segments.

Or settings up multiple Strava accounts...

real strava king wrote:

Next level is taking them all in one run.

Or, if that's not feasible. Taking them all over a consecutive number of days, but not uploading them until you're done.

Then uploading all at once so he gets all the emails at the same time.

That's next level.

Someone arrest this man before he burgles Fort Knox. Brilliant stuff.

I don't know why you are even asking.

Strava segments are there specifically to be taken.

Of course you should go at it.

Just taking the local 8 during the course of your regular running is appropriate. Going to his town is strava segment douchery. But if you're going to do it you need to go full douche and take those two where the segment is your full activity - making it painfully obvious you deliberately went after only him, and his KOM segments.

How fast are these segments and how far in lead is he? Like is it a mile in 6:00 that he went all out for and second place is like 8:00?

Runner10287 wrote:

How fast are these segments and how far in lead is he? Like is it a mile in 6:00 that he went all out for and second place is like 8:00?

Pretty much. Like I do need to put in some effort to beat some of them while in the middle of a run. But I end up in second-third quite easily just in the course of my easy runs at ~7:15-7:30 pace.