Originally Posted by
DsmBerg
I like Strava because it gives you the data and you have the choice of never looking at it until you get done with the ride. You can challenge yourself based on "feel" without looking at a computer.
My average is way slower than I think I'm going, typically. That discrepancy is increased dramatically after about 4 beers.
I can't use any of the riding apps on my phone, because, bizarrely, there is some sort of weird gps dead zone around the small town I live in. I have tried several different apps, on an android phone handlebar holder(so there's no signal blockage possible), and every single one of them does the same thing. It picks up my start point, but then as I ride through the college campus and around town warming up, it completely drops out those couple miles and then picks it up around 2 miles north or south of my start point as if I had done a 'as the crow flies' sort of start route. And yes, I have made sure my phone isn't in energy saving mode, or auto time out, or anything like that.
I used to use a bike computer a lot, but anymore I just go out and enjoy the ride and check my start and end time on the home clock, as I usually know about how far I went.