Group Ride Etiquette Dilemma

[Andrea]

Look at it this way- if they do get offended, then you'll just have to find faster people to ride with!

[Mr. SR500]

I don't think you offended, but there are all sorts of group rides: social, training, combination with lots of break aways and regrouping (this is how we typically ride), and strict pacelines, to name a few. Many times on a social ride, the idea is to stay together - hills will always stretch out a group. We almost always regroup at major turns/roads/etc... but with all the breakaways, a rider can easily ride as hard as they choose, and no drop makes it fun for all.

[7rider]

I wouldn't think they would be offended. Hills should be expected to spread out the group. Did you take off the moment the last woman came up to the top, or did you give her a chance to rest and catch her breath? It seems like you did nothing that I would view as offending.

[channlluv]

<<--Still very much a casual rider. If it had been me you'd ridden past, I'd have been wondering what took you so long, recognizing that you're a much stronger rider than I. And by that I mean, I would have been feeling badly for holding you up.

I actually have friends here who have invited me to come running with them and I just pass because I'm nowhere fit enough to do it. I'd be keeping them from their actual workout if they had to hold back to accommodate my less-than-theirs fitness level. (And that's improving, but still, I don't want to keep them from working up a sweat just because I'm struggling to keep up.)

I don't think you did anything wrong at all. I'd have been grateful for the example of how to do it the most efficient way.

Unless you took off a soon as she got up the hill behind you. Then, yeah, that's kind of snarky. Ha!

Roxy