diff --git a/pkg/service.go b/pkg/service.go
index 2725e60..11d0264 100644
--- a/pkg/service.go
+++ b/pkg/service.go
@@ -117,42 +117,68 @@ func (sds *Service) APIs() []rpc.API {
 	}
 }
 
+func segmentRange(workers, start, stop uint64, params sd.Params) []RangeRequest {
+	segmentSize := ((stop - start) + 1) / workers
+	remainder := ((stop - start) + 1) % workers
+	numOfSegments := workers
+	if remainder > 0 {
+		numOfSegments++
+	}
+	segments := make([]RangeRequest, numOfSegments)
+	for i := range segments {
+		end := start + segmentSize - 1
+		if end > stop {
+			end = stop
+		}
+		segments[i] = RangeRequest{start, end, params}
+		start = end + 1
+	}
+	return segments
+}
+
 // Run does a one-off processing run on the provided RangeRequests + any pre-runs, exiting afterwards
 func (sds *Service) Run(rngs []RangeRequest, parallel bool) error {
 	for _, preRun := range sds.preruns {
+		// if the rangeSize is smaller than the number of workers
+		// make sure we do synchronous processing to avoid quantization issues
+		rangeSize := (preRun.Stop - preRun.Start) + 1
+		numWorkers := uint64(sds.workers)
+		if rangeSize < numWorkers {
+			parallel = false
+		}
 		if parallel {
-			// Chunk overall range into N subranges for workers
-			chunkSize := (preRun.Stop - preRun.Start) / uint64(sds.workers)
 			logrus.Infof("parallel processing prerun range (%d, %d) (%d blocks) divided into %d sized chunks with %d workers", preRun.Start, preRun.Stop,
-				preRun.Stop-preRun.Start+1, chunkSize, sds.workers)
-			// Sanity floor the chunk size
-			if chunkSize < 100 {
-				chunkSize = 100
-				logrus.Infof("Computed range chunk size for each worker is too small, defaulting to 100")
-			}
+				rangeSize, rangeSize/numWorkers, numWorkers)
+			workChan := make(chan RangeRequest)
+			quitChan := make(chan struct{})
+			// spin up numWorkers number of worker goroutines
 			wg := new(sync.WaitGroup)
-			for i := 0; i < int(sds.workers); i++ {
-				blockRange := RangeRequest{
-					Start:  preRun.Start + uint64(i)*chunkSize,
-					Stop:   preRun.Start + uint64(i)*chunkSize + chunkSize - 1,
-					Params: preRun.Params,
-				}
-				// TODO(hack) this fixes quantization
-				if blockRange.Stop < preRun.Stop && preRun.Stop-blockRange.Stop < chunkSize {
-					blockRange.Stop = preRun.Stop
-				}
+			for i := 0; i < int(numWorkers); i++ {
 				wg.Add(1)
 				go func(id int) {
 					defer wg.Done()
-					logrus.Infof("prerun worker %d processing range (%d, %d)", id, blockRange.Start, blockRange.Stop)
-					for j := blockRange.Start; j <= blockRange.Stop; j++ {
-						if err := sds.WriteStateDiffAt(j, blockRange.Params); err != nil {
-							logrus.Errorf("error writing statediff at height %d in range (%d, %d) : %v", i, blockRange.Start, blockRange.Stop, err)
+					for {
+						select {
+						case workerSegment := <-workChan:
+							for j := workerSegment.Start; j <= workerSegment.Stop; j++ {
+								if err := sds.WriteStateDiffAt(j, workerSegment.Params); err != nil {
+									logrus.Errorf("error writing statediff at height %d in range (%d, %d) : %v", id, workerSegment.Start, workerSegment.Stop, err)
+								}
+							}
+							logrus.Infof("prerun worker %d finished processing range (%d, %d)", id, workerSegment.Start, workerSegment.Stop)
+						case <-quitChan:
+							return
 						}
 					}
-					logrus.Infof("prerun worker %d finished processing range (%d, %d)", id, blockRange.Start, blockRange.Stop)
 				}(i)
 			}
+			// break range up into segments
+			segments := segmentRange(numWorkers, preRun.Start, preRun.Stop, preRun.Params)
+			// send the segments to the work channel
+			for _, segment := range segments {
+				workChan <- segment
+			}
+			close(quitChan)
 			wg.Wait()
 		} else {
 			logrus.Infof("sequential processing prerun range (%d, %d)", preRun.Start, preRun.Stop)