@axwj29 My first rides were like that, it went up from an average 10.75mph for the first 4 days (fist ride was 9.5mph I think) this on a monthly avg, July 2012 was 12.07mph, Aug & Sept 14.03, but these were really flat rides I then started doing some hills and my speed went down but elevation and distance went up, it wasn't until nearly a year after I started I started to hit averages of 15mph only one month did I average over 16mph for the month Sept 2013
The elevation for 2013 may be a bit high
Also I have found a way of using the data from my R20 and getting it to strava with pretty much the correct elevation, though a bit long winded, down load the ride from the unit, upload to rwgps, correct the elevation, as the R20 doesn't really record it, just what seems to be an accumulation of something, download that as a txc history file, use a the header and footer from a garmin tcx file, copy the ride data from the <ID> tag, to the last <Lap> tag and insert that, strava sees the file as a 705 file and uses the elevation data, which when uploaded to strava is a little high compared with rwgps, but to within a 100ft or so, if I uploaded direct from the garmin it tended to be much higher, so in away its making it more accurate, yesterdays ride for instance rwgps gave me a corrected elevation from the R20 of 1651ft, using the same data strava gave 1761ft, and if I plotted the ride on strava's route planner it gave it at over 1,800ft, plotting the same ride on rwgps its 1581ft.
If you hadn't gathered my 705 isn't recording the rides, well the gps track anyway.
