Originally Posted by kbarch

How much of an improvement, in terms of seconds, was that?

My favorite segment is also a fairly short 2% uphill. Among a small group I'm in, the difference between best and second best time is just one second, but it's also the difference between first and sixth place. That one second is killing me! On segments that get maybe two hundred stravatizers on them every day, I'm just happy to be in first or second through lunch time.