What is your overall average MPH?

[Jiffer]

I was telling Dh about this thread and he said he has learned that where you live in the country tends to make a difference in what is considered average pace. He was talking with a guy at our LBS who races at a high level. In California, where we live, the average pace of cyclists seems to be a lot faster than in other parts of the country. I guess we're more competetive! We certainly have the ability to ride more often during the year because of weather and cycling seems to be fairly popular.

I found one post I read a while back interesting, which made me realize how different cycling is in other parts of the country. Someone was talking about how they used to laugh at people walking around the grocery store in their lycra cycling shorts and hobbling around in their cycling shoes with clips (yet now they are one of those people!). My first thought was, "At the grocery store?" This is just not something you see in California. For the most part anyways. People may ride their bikes to the store to pick up some milk, but they will typically not be the more serious cyclists who wear cycling shorts and clip in to their pedals.

So, my main point is, what is considered an average pace in one area may be completely different in another.