I rode one of our area's best-established organized century rides today. Beautiful route; many hundreds of riders representing all ability levels. It was a great day.

At the finish, I saw a rider turn his bike upside down--onto the saddle and handlebars--and begin to furiously crank the pedals.

After several minutes, sensing my gaze, he explained: "my computer shows we only went 98.2 miles. I need to get it up to 100 before I post the stats on Facebook."

For the past year or so, I've been conducting an experiment with myself: no social media posts about my racing and endurance adventures, no race T-shirts, no medals in the office... I don't think there's anything wrong with any of these things--I just have wanted to make sure *my* motivations are in the right place. (In other words, I'm testing myself to make sure I really do love the sport, and am not just trying to impress people.)

I have no idea what Facebook Guy's motivations were for running up his mileage on his computer. But, he was a great reminder (to me) that the metrics that matter most (to me) can't be measured by my Garmin.

Thanks for listening.