I don't get overly worried about my mileage or average pace. But I do like to see the numbers pile up. I have also found that I like seeing my average pace go up each month. Seems it goes hand in hand with the temperature! But if I have a day like today where I the wind was so bad I had to pedal downhill just to stay upright and it shot my average pace down the tubes, oh well. There is always another day to get out and put the rubber on the road! I only put about five hundred miles on my road bike last year because I commuted by mtn bike. But, I have already eclipsed that number this year.