Quote Originally Posted by aicabsolut View Post
I've also heard mixed reviews about the Pedalers. My friend who likes them the best has no problems keeping up with really any level, but even she says that they will leave you with nothing but your cue sheet. Sometimes, she just prints out their routes and does them on her own time.
My main reason for riding with them was so I wouldn't be alone on the roads in case of a crash or mechanical problem. Before last year I did lots of solo rides but they were mostly either on the WOD or Beach Dr. in Rock Creek Park/MoCo. But then when the time came for the big event ride that I was training for I would find I had not trained enough on hills, both physically and mentally. So last year I decided to shake things up by riding unfamiliar routes with more climbs, but I'm paranoid enough to not want to do that all by myself. On the PPTC rides even when I was by myself on a given stretch of road I knew that there were others behind me and that I had the phone number of the ride leader in case I needed it. All in all it worked out well and I plan to ride with them again.

I do keep the cue sheets for rides I like, in case I want to repeat them later with friends.