Originally Posted by
Garfield Cat
I go on Excel and construct the formulas to calculate the average speed after removing the slowest laps. Suppose I go on a 20 mile ride and 2.5 of those lap miles were the slowest. Then I know that 12.5% of that ride can be removed to arrive at an adjusted average.
Adjusted averages are even more irrelevant than averages in general.
An average should be measured over a long distance and without any stops or rules to discard data, otherwise it is not an average but just a number popping out of a formula.