quote:So come to think of it, could I please get a counter that will scream at me whenever I do any of these things?
I never thought about it until I read your post Bob, but you could use a GPS unit to scream at you in one of the cases you mentioned. If you have a waypoint defined, you can tell the GPS to sound an alarm when you get close to that waypoint. This would be easy to use for your second ride after you defined all the mile points on your first ride. If you trace out the course ahead of time on Google Earth and download it, it should even work for your first ride.
Of course until you actually try a little trick like this (and I never have) you don't know if it is really all that helpful and worth the trouble.
Speaking of forgetting things, once last fall after driving 40 minutes to the course, I thought I forgot to bring a pen. 6:30 Sunday morning in downtown Detroit. Where am I going to find a pen? Fortunately I hadn't forgot, because my hundreds of dollars of my other equipment (bike, counter, steel tape, GPS) would have been useless without a pen.