Re: Average speed

On 6/4/2024 2:02 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

When I noted that my average speeds on folat rides around here was
between 11 and 12 mph there was a lot of noise about how slow I was. Now
I know I'm not fast since my lung damage but I still dropped a lot pf
people untilrecently and even now doing quite a bit of climbing and
rather rapid descending, my average speed have only dropped to 9 - 10 - 11 mph.
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So a question is - how are you people that think that a 12 mph average in
a city is slow measuring your own average speed? I use a Garmin 830 and
the latest Garmin software.
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 I tend to average 11/12 mph across town with the commute bike, ie heavy
upright old MTB, folks with commute’s into the city of london or
Westminster will be bit faster some by quite a bit well into the teens most
low some high.
 Strava Segments are generally better gauge of one’s fitness/speed as you’d
expect as that’s sort of what they were designed for.
 Roger Merriman
 

11/12 isn't unreasonable in city limits, Depending on the traffic conditions, that's actually probably pretty good.
In the 5th episode of the tenth season of Top Gear, Hammond won a race across london riding a hybrid bike (don't remember the brand) against Clarkson using a boat (though the canals and the Thames) and May in a car. It took him about 90 minutes.
To put that into context, in episode 7 of the 6th season, Clarkson raced a marathon runner through the London Marathon circuit, the runner won that too.
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