So, yesterday Strava provided me a little consolation.
In the morning I participated in a time trial and placed third from last in a field of twenty (four mintues slower than the fastest, but still four minutes faster than the slowest ) After getting home and having a nice snack I headed out for another ride on familiar roads. On the return I decided to dial it up to 400 watts and drope the hamer on a few segments - good for three new PR and a repeat of another! Not only that, they put me in decent standing, too - top 2-3% for the year, top 5% all-time among thousands of riders, moving up the leader board as many as 280 places, and in once case off the main route, best of the day - best of ten, but I'll take it. . And what a day it was! Gorgeous spring day, so tons of cyclists were out - many segments showed nearly 500 for the day when I checked in the evening - that's 20% of all the attempts for the whole year.