pll- wow, very scary experience and I do hope the other cyclist is really okay.

I took a DOR yesterday. It's fall break at our school, and I took advantage of the time and nicer weather last week- I had accumulated 194 miles between Saturday October 1 and Friday October 7, so I was completely ready for a day off.

Today I rode with the El Tour de Tucson / Carmichael training group again. The theme of the day was pacelines, and we practiced double pacelines, rotating double pacelines and single rotating pacelines, mainly along a freeway frontage road with little traffic. Even though we self-selected into 3 groups based on experience with pacelines, my group still had a few riders who didn't seem to be "experienced". Some of my regular riding buddies were in the group, and I was more than comfortable sitting 6-12 inches from their wheels, but there were a few that were very unpredictable and I kept more of a distance. On the way back, my small group of 7 were led off by a tandem at 18-20 mph. I managed to keep up with them for about 6 miles, and just dropped off a little for the last 2.