Well, like i said.......i'm talking very steep hills that are even hard to walk up and are a few miles long, and add to that the fact that i'm new to this and i don't want my heart rate way up there. As i said, i could go faster but i don't think thats healthy. Just recently i heard of another young guy who was very heavily into lots of hard long exercize and dropped dead while doing so. I really believe it's not good for the human body. I got into this for exercise, but it doesn't take anywhere near that kind of strain to be healthy. So when the hill is rediculously steep for miles i take my time and save the fast riding for when the road gets less demanding. I wish the computer could register slow speeds like that just so i'd have an accurate milage count. If and when i get to the point that i can go over that speed on these insanly steep, long runs w/o getting my heart rate over what i think is healthy, then i suppose i won't have a problem with the computer. I was just asking if this is normal for most computers, and it seems it is.