Cycling Personal Records

Like I said, for each is own.

Your missing the point.  

It was your example.

3260127 said:

Like I said, for each is own.

Fair enough, but I still do not understand how exactly you would like it to work. You do not want that the watch picks the fastest 40k section from the activity, and in the same time you do not want that it uses the time of your activity as the PR (when the distance is close to 40km), and you also do not want to assign it manually, or trim the activity to the section of your choice. So how exactly you want it to work? If you can describe the way you want it to work, I recommend suggesting it to Garmin at Share Ideas | Garmin 

I thought it worked like Strava, but obviously it doesn't.  It cherry picks, or you have to trim, or do an exact number of K's to get a true PR.  Regardless, as I said before, Strava is the way to go.

3260127 said:

Strava is the way to go.

Unfortunately I do not know what you mean. My records at Strava are the best performances at given distance within activities I did. In your words the "cherry picked" best performances (subsets of a bigger distance). As far as I see, it is the same method as Garmin uses, perhaps with the difference that Garmin handles better problems when the GPS misbehaves. At Strava I have plenty of PRs that are PRs only because of GPS errors, and since it is impossible to edit the distance or the records at Strava, the only way to get rid of the false records at Strava is deleting them, or trimming away a significant part of the activity.

trux said:

In fact it is done in this way intentionally. If you do a 50km ride, the fastest 40km section will be picked and assigned as the record, but if the total distance is close to the concerned record distance, then the distance of the activity gets the priority.

This is cherry picking the best 40K segment in a ride.  Strava, does not do this.  If you do a 50K ride, it will see what you did in the first 40K, and if its the fastest you've ever done, it will record as your PR.

I don't know what you mean about GPS errors.  I am using Garmin products, and the data is sent to Strava.  Strava just looks at the data differently.  Consequently, my PRs on Strava do not match those of Garmin.  In my opinion, I like how Strava looks at the data, as opposed to how Garmin does.

This is exactly what I thought. But there's one problem: on the 5k race where I made my PB I finished and according to the watch I had still some 150m to go, so I jogged 150m zig-zagging in the crowd. This obviously added tots of time. On the other hand if I would've stopped the watch at 4.850m I wouldn't get a 5k PB.