Most prestigious Strava segment records

Unless I just can’t find the button, you can’t flag on the app though.

They need to add that feature, I’m sure I’m not alone in being by too lazy to pick up my computer just to flag someone

wow21 wrote:

The congressional wrote:

Liam Boylan-Pett

Cool, thanks.

What was the objection -- that HJers would be mad at KM analogous to a pro shouldn't enter a local 5K and steal the glory? Or did LBP have the course record at the time? Or that injury was sure to result from a collision due to the selfish people running clockwise (see, e.g.,

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9513389

) given the high speeds Merber would be running?

Free_the_thigh wrote:

Unless I just can’t find the button, you can’t flag on the app though.

They need to add that feature, I’m sure I’m not alone in being by too lazy to pick up my computer just to flag someone

You're right - it's not on the app and that is a pain point for me, too. However, when I'm at the computer and see a polluted segment (no matter if I ran it or not) I feel it is my duty to flag the non-legit activities and do that until at least the KOM/CR (and mostly top 3) is legit.

The congressional wrote:

wow21 wrote:

Cool, thanks.

What was the objection -- that HJers would be mad at KM analogous to a pro shouldn't enter a local 5K and steal the glory? Or did LBP have the course record at the time? Or that injury was sure to result from a collision due to the selfish people running clockwise (see, e.g.,

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9513389

) given the high speeds Merber would be running?

https://twitter.com/liam_bp/status/1154791474871066624

Ah, I did see that exchange on Twitter! Cool. Sorry, I thought this happened a few years back. Thanks for bringing this up.

I was listening to Lance Armstrong's podcast with Ryan Hall and they were talking about some segment near Palo Alto that is a tough 3 mi bike segment. Some up and coming young cyclist set the record but had a career ending injury in the record still stands today.

Free_the_thigh wrote:

thoroughrice wrote:

Flagging 100% works and it works instantly. To prove it, I just flagged Paul Charovkine and go ahead and check the leaderboard, he's now gone. I couldn't easily tell that the others were on bikes so I didn't flag them but you can feel free to do so if they're confident and they'll be removed within 10 seconds.

Unless I just can’t find the button, you can’t flag on the app though.

They need to add that feature, I’m sure I’m not alone in being by too lazy to pick up my computer just to flag someone

Being too lazy to flag a run doesn't count as "doesn't work"

shohohe wrote:

Free_the_thigh wrote:

Unless I just can’t find the button, you can’t flag on the app though.

They need to add that feature, I’m sure I’m not alone in being by too lazy to pick up my computer just to flag someone

You're right - it's not on the app and that is a pain point for me, too. However, when I'm at the computer and see a polluted segment (no matter if I ran it or not) I feel it is my duty to flag the non-legit activities and do that until at least the KOM/CR (and mostly top 3) is legit.

I bet you love the cheater threads on here, too.

shohohe wrote:

Free_the_thigh wrote:

Unless I just can’t find the button, you can’t flag on the app though.

They need to add that feature, I’m sure I’m not alone in being by too lazy to pick up my computer just to flag someone

You're right - it's not on the app and that is a pain point for me, too. However, when I'm at the computer and see a polluted segment (no matter if I ran it or not) I feel it is my duty to flag the non-legit activities and do that until at least the KOM/CR (and mostly top 3) is legit.

Yeah, big pain having neither that button nor GAP's in the app. You'd think that would be easy to add.

Also disappointing there haven't been more segments actually identified!

WinnytheBish wrote:

I was listening to Lance Armstrong's podcast with Ryan Hall and they were talking about some segment near Palo Alto that is a tough 3 mi bike segment. Some up and coming young cyclist set the record but had a career ending injury in the record still stands today.

Probably Old La Honda. 3+ miles 8% average. The test piece for anyone in the area.

Phil Gaimon smoked the record 2 years ago.

Is Heartbreak Hill on Strava? Or one of the bridges in NYC?

I think for a segment to hold any value, it needs to be easily recognizeable and highly contested. Contested as in lots of attempts. Recognizeable meaning that there is a clear start/end point that people are going to recognize regardless of whether they use Strava. So a loop around a lake from a parking lot would be a good example.

I pulled up the reservoir loop in Central Park, and there are a bunch of lap loops, each starting/ending in different spot, which is no good.

Would love to know some more prestigious segments, just so I can go flag some idiots who mark there stuff incorrectly. I noticed that pulling up the route OP referenced, the leaderboard is significantly changed from some discusers reporting the bots.

The Comrades routes are on Strava, as well as some notable sections of the routes. There are some amazing records there set by some very good runners from all around the world.

Personally I think a segment has to be at least a kilometer or more to qualify as being prestigious. Short segments of less than a 100 or 200 m are open to just about anyone taking a swing at it. Over 400m you have to be relatively fittish and over a kilometer or so in length you legitimately have to be an above average runner to take most regularly run segments these days.

The ones where they're obviously in a car and they're setting world records in every distance but the rest of the workout is totally disproportionate. Side story: One time I finished a run on my watch but I didn't all the way exit so Strava took it as I was still running in the car on the way home. Strava said I had done 10 miles at 3:50 pace and my watch said I had done 2 or 3 miles or whatever. I obviously deleted the Strava run because I ain't no cheater.

Probably in general, places where a lot of elites train:

Flagstaff, any segments in Iten?, popular training places in Europe?, and college towns.

Probably stating the obvious here, but a few giveaways that a ride was posted as a run in Strava:

-if the course is rolling, look for differential between ascents and descents. Runners might be 10-30% IE 6:00 vs 7:30 miles, but cyclists could be 300% 18 vs 55 km/hr

-most runners will have cadence displayed (unless HR is shown)

-average 4:40 mile pace for 30 miles, and profile pic suggests that they're 40lbs overweight

my 2c wrote:

Scott Fauble's Boston Marathon segment records

I was also thinking about the Boston course or maybe CIM.

Basically, fast/popular road races where the top runners use Strava.

Heartbreak hill

Not really prestigious or world class, but some Mt Diablo segments in the SF bay area have some good performances and people who care about them. The shorter ones are owned by people doing longer runs, not sprinting the segment. And there are longer segments too.