Do any of you ride organized rides alone?

[Blueberry]

It's rare for me to go to an organized ride alone, but I generally ride them alone, and frequently ride from my home alone. On the organized rides, DH usually does a different distance (and so, a different route), and he rides much faster anyway. I've spend 30+ miles alone *on an MS Ride* (I'm slow). The sweeps stay behind the last rider (I usually volunteer to do that for my local club). It's normal that you wouldn't have seen them - especially if you weren't the last rider coming in. When I'm sweeping, I usually try to check in on the last rider(s), but won't crowd them or ride with them the entire time (I don't want them to feel hurried).

Congratulations!!!

CA

[Zen]

See the post by NY Biker and put my name instead.

I do exactly the same thing.
I generally prefer riding alone; other people make me nervous. I do enjoy the camaraderie at the end.

[SadieKate]

Yep. Last organized ride was a 100 mi century around Mt Bachelor. Wait a minute, let's strike "organized" from that comment. The 2 "rest stops" were someone's pick-up parked on the side of a road with the tail gate down. With only about 100 riders total, I spent much of my time alone. It was nice that as I turned into the headwind two nice broad and tall pairs of shoulders showed up.