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@dancing james
i am not a follower of my own KOM's and find it bizarre when Strava tells me I have lost KOM's that I did not know I even held
i find it most informative for MTB use, so for example i regularly go to Swinley Forest, and repeat the same bits of trail and can then see how i am doing on segments versus other visits. had not been out on the MTB for a while so it was interesting to see that some trails I was doing well on, but that my fitness has suffered, so was lagging on quite a few.
i tend not to repeat road rides so often so the comparisons are not so informative. urban segments are utterly pointless as generally the traffic and traffic lights are the deciding factors, so comparing my performance on segments in London tells me next to fuck all, though I did discover that i often ride faster in town on the bike with the best braking ability