Hi,

Not really IMO.

I want to keep my time on the bikes to a reasonable limit. I'm not
in a hurry to improve. I'm not the sort of person that wants to know
what my limits in performance are at any time are and enhancing
them. I know I can improve them without ever approaching them.

As far as I'm concerned as long as I do a decent weekly mileage
and always push a little, not hard, * I'll keep getting better until I
reach my limits, for my regime, seems that will take 2 to 3 years.

IMO, and why its not for the Training Forum, 95% of the health
benefits of regular exercise can be gleaned without torturing
yourself to maximise your short term current performance gain.

I'd get slaughtered by the "no pain, no gain" brigade there.

The 10% or whatever you get from hard training and lose quickly if
you hit your peak and then slacken on the training is outside my
area of long term interest, I'll bumble along being pretty fit.

rgds, sreten.

Regarding the bike computers - dirt cheap, very basic but do
the job. Trust me they don't keep any data on a battery change.

* A little overall, that might be attacking hills and taking it
easy on the rest of the ride, or taking it steady but trying to
go fast on some sections, I generally just keep mixing it up.