What is your overall average MPH?

[nicole309]

Another post got me to wondering. What is everyone's average MPH?
Mine is a very slow 11.9

[mimitabby]

on hills? Bwahahahaha

how can you say? mine's about the same as yours, but sometimes i find myself comfortably going at 14-15mph.
it depends!

[nicole309]

I was just curious because someone had a post about an average group ride being 17 - 19MPH. That seemed really high to me. Of course I have gone faster, and slower depending on terrain. Some people keep track of these things through bike computers, etc..
I have on a few rides and that is how I came up with my number.

[jobob]

Here's an epic thread dealing with just that question.

Please don your flame-retardant suit before entering

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=7968&

[nicole309]

Thanks Jobob.
I always have such a hard time finding what I am looking for in past threads.

[mimitabby]

ha, i know exactly which thread THAT is.
very entertaining, I'm sure.

If people go in pacelines, the speeds are apt to be a lot faster.

[jobob]

Oh, no prob nicole, I just happen to remember that thread all too well.

All I needed to do was search a certain person's name.

[maillotpois]

Oh a stroll down memory lane... Thanks, Jo.

[Jiffer]

My average pace changes with each ride depending on terrain, distance and elevation. I think I might have posted on that thread you mentioned, but I'll repeat just in case. Today I did what I called my "speed" ride. A semi-short distance that I pushed myself on for speed. It was 12 miles at 15.5 average pace. My last "long" ride was 25 miles at 14.9 average. On the tandem the other day, up some good elevation, I was REALLY pushing more than I have before on the tandem and we did 16.8 average. I go faster on the tandem than my single, while DH goes slower!

I might be a little faster than you, but I'm the slowest person I actually know who cycles, so it spurs me on to get faster and keep up!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Please don your flame-retardant suit before entering

Whoa, and how!

[Grog]

My average speed so far this year (road bike only, not including commutes): 23.66 km/h.

Last year (2006): 24.01

The year before (2005): 23.55

I am not interested in my speed in miles but you can get the conversion here: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...e+Search&meta=

That includes club rides, leisurely rides, rides with strong and less strong friends, stopping and starting, very flat and verrrrrrry steep.

And it's really not very important.

[Torrilin]

I've clocked myself at around 12mph. It's variable tho... I can't sustain that kind of speed for long right now. It seems to be slow for a road bike, but I'm on a commuterized mountain bike, so I'm ok with being slow.

Most of the time I don't worry about speed since I ride by myself. I'd rather worry about am I keeping a good cadence, am I pushing my gearing just enough, or am I pushing distance a reasonable amount. Those are easier for me to judge since I don't have a cyclocomputer.

[Jiffer]

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.

[ehirsch83]

it all varies with the terrain and the weather!!
like today, my average for 30 miles was 14.9mph. i had about 5 miles of climbing where I sat between 8-11mph(3,000ft climb in 4.5 miles about) I am a slow climber! but then my whole way home i was in the low 20s(going downhill)(on the way out going uphill with a headwind i was around 12-14mph).

Back in FL my average for most rides is closer to 18mph.

So I guess what I am trying to say is, you can not tell much about a rider or the ride by just the average mph, terrain and weather play such an important part(and also is it a solo ride or a group ride,etc.)

oh and one last thing, you can expect, when in a group ride, to ride a few mph above your normal average for the same ride, if you were to ride it solo.

[kiwi girl]

One thing that occurred to me about speeds reading through that old post (although I don't know how much difference it would make) are that there are two different ways that cycle computers can calculate average speed. One is auto stop/start (where it only counts actual riding time ie while the wheels are spinning - and divides the distance by that) where time stopped at lights etc doesn't count. The other computer setting is where you push 'start' at the start of your ride and 'stop' at the end so time stuck at lights counts - which would give you a lower average speed.