Interesting read

The growing controversy over rider data in professional cycling

Yeah, but all that is just basically a subset of nearly everyone knowingly or unknowingly sharing most of their data with everything and everyone. That ship has sailed.

J. Edgar Hoover would be proud!

Try riding without any current data on the ride you are on. On my mountain bike I do not have a cycle computer, just a seat bag with the necessaries in it. I find it quite refreshing not knowing anything about my rides that can be expressed in numbers. On my road bikes I generally look at distance only. Also quite refreshing. It's fun just to ride.

So on one hand you find it refreshing not to know any numbers. Yet you do find it quite refreshing to know your distance.

Isn't distance a number? Or is your device reporting that in terms word terms "short" "moderate" "long" "really long" ? Or some other such. <GRIN>

Don't worry, all in fun. Just picking. Perhaps you intended the irony.

Me too. I want to get in my miles, but if I try to track other stuff, I end up competing with myself, and I lose! I want to beat my fastest time, or go faster than my fastest speed, but that's tough to do consistently. My solution: don't keep track of those things. Just do the miles.