As Richpips said.
Keeping the “all time” records is great, gives you something to aim for…. plus you can turn it off if you like.
I’ve just started to use Strava, and i have to say I’m loving it, I commute to work on my mountain bike all year round, and its been awesome to see that I can beat (KOM) some of the guys that work here and ride road bikes to work, on some of the segments…. it’s made me go, and want to go faster, and I even got my leg over a road bike to see just how fast I could go, and KOM’d a couple of the segments that day 🙂
… If nothing else seeing that I’m the fastest cyclist into / out of work is great “locker room ammo”.lol 😀