Originally Posted by angelo
avg speed does not mean a whole lot because terrain and traffic make useful comparisons very iffy, as the OP noticed.
Someone said this before, but if you want to get faster, don't pay attention to average speed.
Instead, follow a training program. A program will modulate hard and easy days, include intervals to get your body acclimated to producing more power, and maximize your rate of improvement. Hard-charging on your average speed will just tire you out for no good reason and take much longer to produce results.
Well avarage speed does have a valuable maning but only over a long period. For example if you track your avarage speed over full seasons and then compare the avarage speed of last season to this full season when that time comes then it has some value. Avarage max speed also has value as it lets you see how your doing when it comes to your peak performance. I asked about this same thing in another topic and a reply was that its only applicable in the short term if its the same route same conditions.