On the mtb I was king of ten rather unpopular mountains last year. The secret is not to have your sandwiches half way, have a wee after the segment ends not during, and not hang around gossiping at gates. Starting at the back and finishing at the front also works, as does riding with faster mates who don’t do strava.
And no, I’m not going to say where these mountains are. I think I had a stalker for a time – some guy I don’t know picked off two or three of them, no doubt having rightly judged my name at the top to be signifier of a soft segment…
On the road bike I’m happy if I’m faster than the QOM. I got one KOM last year though of which I was incredibly proud – one of the local cc’s 30 min pub dashes with 700ish people. It lasted all of two hours until one the mates I’d been drafting got back from the pub and uploaded…
In fact my fast mates’ leaderboard presences mainly predate when they started actual racing… So yeah, just a bit of fun and as you can tell from this post I hardly care at all…