Took the words right out of my mouth: "First world problems..."

I'm lucky in that I live in an area with an active - but relatively small - cycling and Strava community. Most everyone near the top of the leaderboards knows most everyone else and recognizes it for what it is - a little friendly competition and incentive to improve.

Beautiful stoker and I both have accounts, but do not maintain separate accounts for the tandem (we both ride our singles more than the tandem). We always accurately show the bike as "Co-Motion Speedster TANDEM" so there is no doubt which bike we are riding.

I have periodically achieved KOM's on the tandem but eventually someone raises the bar. Beautiful stoker has about a dozen QOM's which are all on the tandem AFAIK. Whenever I congratulate her, she inevitably replies "It's just the tandem, it doesn't really count".

We ride regularly with the local QOM Queen (she has 10 pages worth) and she takes no offense, losing a QOM only inspires her to train smarter and harder.

There is one other local tandem I know of who play into the local Srava KOM/QOM mix. The captain is an extremely strong rider, having earned 20 pages of KOMs, mostly on his single, but also on the tandem. His stoker records her single rides on Strava, but not the tandem rides as "it wouldn't be fair". Her call.

Everyone is chasing a strong local recumbent rider who has about 4 pages of KOM's. Some of his downhill times are amazing. We're close behind on a short segment outside of Paso Robles where he is KOM. The guys just ahead of us on the list are two pro's who uploaded the 2011 Paso stage of the Tour of California to Strava. I suppose we might be able to squeeze ahead of them if we had a closed road and peloton to work with.

I've only ever flagged one entry on Strava. The time was so far out of wack and the member had no significant history on Strava that I felt very comfortable flagging the entry for deletion.

Like I said, "First world problems".