Quote Originally Posted by jobob View Post
It's a useful number for the individual to keep track of how fast she (or he) goes over a certain course in order for that person to help gauge her (or his) improvement, but, for the rest of us, who don't happen to know the terrain, the amount of climbing, the difficulty of the descent, the condition of the road, the amount of slowing down & stopping and speeding up on account of stop signs and traffic signals and other obstacles, and the wind direction and the weather on that particular day, it's a meaningless number. IMHO.
+1 Absolutely true.