Some remarks about UMCA:
A few days ago the UMCA altered their "official results" spreadsheet. There was not much change, some entries were obviously corrections of typing errors (e.g. the mileage on March 14th was 231.7 and is 237.1 now). Overall mileage went down by around 70 miles.
This is good on one hand, as the UMCA-results are very transparent now, they almost exactly equal Steve's Strava-entries. My inofficial Strava-based spreadsheet and UMCA's official results are only 2 miles apart now (which might be caused by my Kilometer-miles-conversion)
But this is bad on the other hand:
I always expected UMCA to have access to more detailed (tracker-)data, so that their official results should be derived by deeper examination (I expected this to be the reason for the sometimes huge delays of their official results).
Steve's Strava-uploads contain some obvious errors due to bad gps-signals when his bike was not moving during long rests, but gps falsely detected movement (see picture below from his ride on October 12th). I do not think that Steve's miles are substantially overestimated (I guess the overall error is hardly triple-digit), but I am disappointed that UMCA does not check the data more thoroughly. The official results are unfortunately less reliable than I thought. I do not need an official sanctioning body for adding up Strava-entries, I can do that myself (and I am confident that I make less (typing-)mistakes).