Hi all. Just wanted to post that I called my girlfriend last night. The start of the conversation was not good but hopefully it was resolved. This is what happened that really made her angry. I had her inhaler and power gel in my bike shirt pocket. When they stopped, I handed the stuff to the other women, who also had a pocket in her shirt. That is what made my friend mad. She said it looked like I was sneaking off. She decided to catch me to "show me" and then she rode like heck the rest of the ride. I reminded her that I was behind them the entire ride, with the exception of when I didn't stop and when I passed them on the hill. At the end of the ride she said to me that she had never seen me ride like that before. I said "We don't ride together much anymore...you don't know how I ride." Those were my exact words. What she heard was along the line of..."I'm better than you and will be doing a triathalon soon" Wow, when she told me that, I was blown out of the water! How she got that from what I said, I don't know. She said she couldn't get that out of her head and felt as though I was really being cocky!?! I apologized for not saying specifically to her that I had given her inhaler and gel to the other women. She apologized also for whatever she said. We agreed that we won't ride together again. (bummer) I said I hope that this silly ride would not ruin our friendship. She wanted me to say I was wrong but I told her I would not do that. I made my intentions clear, prior to the ride. I guess time heals all wounds. About three days after this happened I was looking at it completely different then I did the day it happened. I was actually chuckling at how stupid the whole thing was. Only hope she can do the same. Thank you all for your thoughts on the matter...I do appreciate it. It helped me with processing the entire thing.