<<--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