I've largely given up on Strava KoMs. For a while it was fun. But these days all the segments around here have been hoovered up by chaingangs in tailwinds, cheaters on scooters, and geniuses who leave their Garmins running during the drive home. (These are, I think, the most likely explanations for my lack of recent success. There are other possibilities that I prefer not to examine too closely.)
On the other hand, I have started paying horrified attention to Strava's statistic for the number of times I've ridden a given segment. Some of these numbers are genuinely shocking. There is a road near my home which, according to Strava, I've ridden 940 times since 2016. That's not allowing for life pre-Strava, when I was riding the same roads and doing, if anything, greater mileage. Adjusting pro-rata would mean I've ridden that road over 2,000 times.
