Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

Perceptive observations about setting goals and that not every ride is for the purpose of "training", that seem to escape some cyclists who seem compulsive about setting and achieving arbitrary "goals", and gathering, recording and in some cases reporting data about every minute spent on a bicycle no matter the purpose of the ride.

Sometimes it is positive and fun to just go for a ride with no objective at all other than to just go for a ride, no matter what or when a birthday rolls around.