PepeM

No but they're not real either.

velociraptor

Everybody knows that orange = +900 watts.

Or so the cool kids tell me.

Dan333SP

@PepeM stole some bowling shoes and nailed SPD-SL cleats onto them.

It's pretty sad, actually.

deapee

Average speed is decent if you are doing the same route over and over and over again...and even then, wind changes things, greatly. I've literally struggled to maintain 12 mph going down a -1-2% grade before from wind...and I've zoomed along +1-2% grades at like 24 mph like it was nothing.

I have routes where 14.9 average would be pretty good because downhills are treacherous and uphills are like < 10 mph and just seem go on forever and then even the downhills are followed by uphills that you just can't coast over. I have some routes where 20 mph is easy to average...from the sound of your path, basically flat, I'd say 18-19 is probably a decent average...assuming you rode out and back and the wind fought you in one direction.

2lo8

Add in stop signs at the bottom of those downhills and it really kills your average because you can't even pick up speed going down.

woodcraft

On one climb that I track, I noticed that the slowest time was ~ 1.7 mph.

Since KOMs are pretty much out of reach for me,

I'm thinking of going for some POMs (Pawn Of Mountain)

SpeshulEd 

Just chuck your phone/garmin at the end to hit the end of the segment...instant KOM!

2lo8

You have a point

Dan333SP

With standard chainrings and an 11-23, it'd actually be pretty hard to pedal up a 10% grade at ~1mph without falling over.

I'd give kudos for that ride.

SpeshulEd 

Haha, I read that somewhere...things people do to get KOMs...I thought the garmin throw was quite the interesting idea. Can't imagine it'd be very good for the device tho.

dbrook67

My wife and I aren't quite 50 - and we just do it all for fun. Our comfort zone is in the 30-40 mile range (we do longer), and on most of the standard routes we do - we average 12.1mph (per the software).

redfooj

average watts anybody?

woodcraft

I can go about 3mph, maybe slower on the CX bike with 34/36.

The rest will have to be done by zig-zagging/ trackstanding.

Won't stoop to the mtn bike.

SpeshulEd 

2.88w/kg for my ftp. I'm a wuss.

I think my average most days on Zwift is around 175 watts, which would give me about 2.03w/kg.