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  1. #1
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    Feb 2005
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    I don't use any tracker (last time I did, it depressed me to see how slow I was compared to others, even though I know a lot who are slower than me). I log my miles and all exercise in a paper training diary. Of course, I have data in my Garmin, but I only look at the miles. I look at average for a ride right after the ride, but not cumulatively. Anything else, well, don't care. My cadence is extremely consistent. So is my average, for for various rides, except when I really push myself .
    DH does upload his rides into Ride With GPS, but I have everything I need either right in my Garmin or on paper, where I also log my weight and which route I am riding.
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    We have used bikerides.com in the past; it's very simple and only for bike rides. We enjoyed it in 2014 (our "big year" of cycling) as it pushed us to keep our mileage up since it ranks you against other cyclists. For the year, DH came in #2 overall, and I came in #7 (plus #2 among women). That said, it is a very small group -- I think only around 200 cyclists sign up each year. We didn't sign up in 2015 as we knew it would be really depressing to be way down somewhere in the middle of the rankings. We always have fun looking at the cyclist's profiles who log ONE ride for the year and then never return. Often their profiles say something like "I'm really looking forward to getting back into cycling this year!" Uh.....
    Emily

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  3. #3
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    Feb 2005
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    That's funny, Emily. I surprised myself this year. Although I have a Garmin, I barely use it for anything more than a regular bike computer. I do know how to download other's rides, though. Anyway, around the beginning of November, I was upset a bit as I thought I wouldn't make my barely acceptable goal of 2,500 miles before the end of the season. I add them up in my journal, without ever looking at the cumulative total on the Garmin. So, when I actually looked at the data, I had passed my goal maybe a week or 10 days before I looked. My addition or what i remembered to write down was off by 150 miles, at least. I ended up at 2,850, which is close enough to the 3,000 I really wanted to get. Of course the warm fall helped. I should have just pushed myself out of the door for 4-5 of those times I wimped out. So, 3,000 doesn't seem so impossible for this year, as I feel I didn't ride that much.
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