Awe, you ladies crack me up!

Smilingcat, you described perfectly what I have found on group rides before. And typically on this group ride!

Uh, yea... I'm in Dallas. Hills to us are inclines or slight inclines to others! Although, I will say for us Dallas-ites... these hills are a bit on the challenging side. HA!

Tuckerville.. you are a such a rebel! You know, I really didn't mean to tick anyone off, and I honestly have never been YELLED at on a ride like that. Shoot, I'm usually in the back following everyone. I like being last, not first.

BleeckerSt_Girl I can see your point of view. And yes, if it's a group posted at a certain speed, and the ride leader is there to keep that average for everyone... someone sprinting off ahead and making the average speed of the group go up is not cool.

I really get annoyed when I'm on a group ride and we are holding a nice steady average, and then some men at the front get all competitive and start going faster... which in turn makes the group go faster.

My goal was NOT do this. Which is why I even fell behind the group leader after I waited for the group at the end of the first 2 hills. Then when we went up the third hill, I was trying to go slow... but it was getting rather... well, too slow. So I just went around him to the side and rode up slightly to the side of him (it was a VERY WIDE lane). That way I wasn't on his wheel or overlapping. Then he freaked out on me.

Yes, I was with the wrong group. It was my fault for:

1) Not noticing the group I usually ride with take off.

2) Not going with the people who sprinted off up the hills and through the lights.

3) For thinking I would be OK with going slower on my ride than I usually do... because of the wind and heat. Unfortunately, I underestimated my skill level sometimes.

But that guy didn't have to be so freaking rude about it. And until that point, I was at the end of the group, letting others ride in front of me... the whole time.