talking about getting dropped. reminds me of a story from my brother-in-law. He has a training rides with his club. A young "punk" shows up and kept disrupting the training ride by going out too fast instead of customary 10-15 minute warm up run. And during pace line, he would surge out front instead of maintaining the training speed.

My in law and his buddy decided one day to let the boy surge out way ahead. then they changed their training route by turning onto some other road. They didn't see the boy the rest of the day. Happy riding I guess... He thought it was funny. I said the group was being mean...

So you could get "dropped" out front.

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