{"id":21019,"date":"2021-04-08T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevandal.webmatic.be\/?p=21019"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:09:01","slug":"king-kom-strava-challenge-lift-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/king-kom-strava-challenge-lift-off\/","title":{"rendered":"King KOM Strava challenge elevator off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">With the arrival of spring, we launched our first-ever King KOM challenge in early April with the goal of offering our Strava club members a fun challenge. Our King KOM shirt is used as a handy coat rack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">For the first month, we deliberately chose a segment close to our headquarters. The fact that our leader Toon has the fastest club time there at the time of writing completes it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Specifically, we are asking our club members to knock off The Vandal leaderboard. We also choose to keep the segment a secret for as long as possible, which only adds to the challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In the future, we will have a new segment selected each month by one of our ambassadors or cycling companions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard-1024x755.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21024\" width=\"459\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard-1024x755.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard-64x47.png 64w, https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard-768x566.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard-1536x1133.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard-600x442.png 600w, https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/strava-leaderboard.png 2034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><figcaption>The club classification of the secret first King KOM segment at the time of writing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">We recap the process in this article.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Step 1:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Join our Strava club The Vandal Sympaticos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/clubs\/thevandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.strava.com\/clubs\/thevandal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Step 2:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Find our secret segment and ride the legs of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do drive safely for both yourself and other road users!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Step 3:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Share your attempt with us on your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or YouTube and <strong>use #king bowl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Step 4:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Stay safe, ride solo and go full throttle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">What can you win?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The fastest time wins a King KOM shirt, a \u20ac100 voucher and, of course, eternal fame!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The cutest social media post also gets a prize.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King KOM - The Vandal Strava Challenge #1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NSVaTgx0RIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcLdWqNqu2fd0OKTlu_nwZw\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Also, please subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date with new challenges! (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">In the meantime, also subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date with new challenges!<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met de komst van de lente lanceerden we begin april onze allereerste King KOM challenge met als doel onze Strava clubleden een leuke uitdaging aan te bieden. Onze King KOM shirt wordt gebruikt als handige kapstok. Voor de eerste maand kozen we bewust voor een segment vlakbij ons hoofdkwartier. Dat onze kopman Toon daar op [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogartikels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevandal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}