What is your overall average MPH?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'm glad you posted this cause it makes me feel better about my speed! I've also been curious what other people's average speeds are. From that older thread that was posted, I have determined that I'm pretty average. I feel like such a slow poke around Dh and other cyclist friends we have, but I think I'm really quite average. Not the fastest, but certainly not the slowest. Just the slowest in my circle of cyclist friends, which is frustrating, yet spurs me on to be better. I, personally, have a definite desire to go faster. I want to be able to ride with other people and keep up. Be more physically fit, etc.
Anyways, thanks for posting this.

If that post made you feel good, then mine will make you feel GREAT!.....
I ride over 100 miles a week except in bad winter weather. My bike is a 30 lb (when loaded for daily ride) steel road/touring bike, and I live in a very hilly rural area. My ride distances can vary between 13 and 70 miles. I'm 53 and have been riding only a year.
Regardless of distance, my average speed seems to always be somewhere between 8.5 and 10.5 mph, depending on the hills on a particular ride. My slowest speed is 2.5mph uphill (which I do almost daily) and fastest downhill has been 39mph, but I hit 30 on downhills almost every ride too.
I do hope to at least get to an average of 11mph by the end of this year.
I'm slower than anyone I know. Yet I feel simply wonderful since I have been biking, and am much more fit. The physical benefits are too plentiful to go into!

P.S. My bike computer is set to "auto start/stop". If it wasn't my average speed might actually be a negative number! =8-O