The whole KOM thing, IMO, is crapola. There was a 5km segment here on the Arakawa River in Tokyo that was 4 years old, and after having checked the weather patterns for all of the KOMs I was anywhere near capturing, I saw that everyone of them was done with pretty heavy winds.

Well, guess what? Typhoon Lan passed through early Monday morning, and my stupid a$$ went out soon afterwards to try and snag some.

My first 3 attempts were aborted for various safety reasons, but check out those wind speeds HAHAHAHA.