Mark them as commutes so they're excluded.

Anyway, I'm probably a little more obsesses than I should be, but I do find it a useful tool for all the reasons mentioned - progress, amount of time/miles, and bike wear and tear.

I will say that while I don't put trips to the store or around the neighborhood on Strava (or even record them), I do include indoor training... and now that I put the powertap back on two days ago I even have speed and distance!

I don't use the Garmin for transportation rides- up to 15 miles or so,

but will manually enter those down to 5 miles to Strava.

The rides to town 1 mile away don't get counted.

I used to be obsessed and Stravaed everything but found (or rather my wife found) that it made me competitive, and not wanting to put out a slow time, and therefore dangerous on public roads so I stopped (or my wife stopped me) Stravaing almost altogether, except when I run with my son.

Nice to track component mileage. Goal setting for mileage is nice to track. I like seeing what rides my friends are doing. The heatmaps for bike lanes is a cool one as well. I like to look at my power numbers too when I do many rides. And having a live segment option for my elemnt is great as well, used it recently up a HC a few weeks ago.

Oh yeah, and average speed is the most worthless "metric" out there.

What is your mileage goal?

I limit myself to 10,000 miles a year.

10k miles is a solid goal for those that have to deal with weather.

I used 15k miles as a goal for almost a decade, but after missing it several times I figured 12k miles was more realistic for me.

I genuinely don't know how guys do +15k miles a year. That's 41 miles every single calendar day-- typically, I can ride about 250 days a year. The idea of a metric century every single ride day is not an idea that appeals to me, at all. I'm still somehow on pace for this year after missing a week to a broken frame and 7 weeks with a broken hand.

I only achieved the 15k mile goal once, but usually fell short by less than 1k miles. 10k miles was too easy back then, so 12k became the goal.

Back then I lived alone(no spouse or children) and was focused on the Leadville Trail 100. Now I have other commitments, and 10k is a realistic goal.

Missing time due to an injury sucks, but in 2014 I hit the 12k goal even after being hit by a truck(and spending 41 days in the hospital). That injury motivated me to get at it harder than ever(just to get back to my old form).

Nope. Pretty handy to have.

At least no more worthless than any other number on its own.

Awesome, you have a stronger battery than mine.

8% battery over 2:15 with Strava. Same ride, same basic time, 2% battery with Ride with gps.

Since Strava doesn't give me anything more that I want, it's a no brainer.

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I like the Garmin GPS because it gives me something to look at during my solo rides. I also use phone based Strave for hiking, although I haven't hiked much lately. Someone showed me this site a couple of years ago and I've really become a slave to long rides: https://swinny.net/Strava/-4691-My-S...dington-Number

It's pretty well correlated to avg power for me. Below is about 8 yrs worth of data:

I met a guy several months ago who's on schedule to finish 100 standard century rides this year. AFAIK, he's retired but still young enough to enjoy pursuing that kind of mileage. And he still holds several KOMs and top tens set a few years ago when he focused on speed rather than distance.

About the only one I care about. That is the only one that directly correlates (or exactly matches) to the KOM.

I track nearly every ride.