Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
Yeah, those starts and stops are bad for your average speed, if you care about it. So are hills.
Correct, but it's a complicated web, like if you change one number in Excel, a bunch of formulas might get recalculated. Since your BF average speed is 25 mph, it means you had a couple sprints at 32 mph when you were only going up a slight hill.
+1, though you forgot to mention the headwind and the chest cold you're getting over