Speaking of keeping pace with a guy, this morning a guy trailed me from my neighborhood and into downtown. He passed by me and then I lost him but we came back to the same street about 10 uphill blocks from my office. I was proud of myself for staying in the street with traffic while he pedaled on the sidewalk. I've been telling myself to be confident and just stay in the road after someone yelled at me a few weeks ago for biking on the sidewalk. Anyway I passed him going uphill and then pulled up to my building and lo and behold he locked up right next to me a minute later. I left the house a few minutes late today but apparently we have the same route. I recognized his bike because I've seen it parked outside our building for almost 2 years so I was happy I could keep up this morning. He said "Man, aren't bikes fun?"