Every time I consider segment hunting I end up deciding it would make a lot more sense to do a run that would actually make sense for my training. So I haven't actually bothered to do it. But I guess if you get your kicks doing hunting segments, then it's fine. After all, Strava created them so you can have fun with them. They wouldn't have much point if they all were sitting at 10 minute pace and no one bothered to go any faster, would they?
Segments make much more sense on the bike.
You can throw in multiple hard efforts (near all out) over a 3-4 hr ride no problem. Plus road cycling has always been about the iconic climbs an varied terrain.
Running has focused more on just completing a certain distance or track times.
get it faster wrote:
Segment hunting is fun. But most of those people probably don't care.
What you need to find is a guy who brags about getting the KOM in the title or description of the run. Those people care A LOT and this type of segment chasing would definitely piss them off.
In fact, I specifically got a lot of segments from one guy day after day until I stole all of his segments. He has repeatedly tried to get them back but since he is like a 20 minute 5k guy who does these as all out efforts he was unable to get most of them.
That's true. There's some 16 min guy that had all the crowns in my neighbourhood, and he doesn't train with a team so he really put some hard efforts to get them. I got most of them through tempos/long intervals, but I went for a few during the offseason lol
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