diff --git a/zebrad/src/components/sync.rs b/zebrad/src/components/sync.rs
index 4850d32e..70e30193 100644
--- a/zebrad/src/components/sync.rs
+++ b/zebrad/src/components/sync.rs
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ where
         // making a less-fallible network service, and the Hedge layer
         // tries to reduce latency of that less-fallible service.
         //
+        // We hedge every request. If we don't have any recent timings,
+        // Hedge issues a second request with no delay.
+        //
         // XXX add ServiceBuilder::hedge() so this becomes
         // ServiceBuilder::new().hedge(...).retry(...)...
         let block_network = Hedge::new(
@@ -157,7 +160,7 @@ where
                 .timeout(BLOCK_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT)
                 .service(peers),
             AlwaysHedge,
-            20,
+            0,
             0.95,
             2 * SYNC_RESTART_TIMEOUT,
         );