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[Mako]

Owlie - Thanks for the response and advice, that is just what i keep thinking 'just keep going'

I do agree with the previous posters response about riding with people faster than yourself, when I have done that I have felt myself pushing harder (with less pain!).

It's a little difficult when you know you are too slow for the club rides, I know getting dropped is something you probably have to go through but I think I need a bit more work first......

So I'll just keep pushing it!

Cheers, Mako

P.S Anyone else suffering from the same issues - too slow, but not fast enough?

[Crankin]

Yes, I've always been in the in between group.
When you average around 15, it's hard to find a "group." It took me a couple of years... but it's true, I ride faster with a faster group. On the other hand, I don't do much group riding anymore. Just with 1-5 people, friends, who either ride around my speed or a little bit faster. Or, I ride with friends who are slower, and I end up waiting.

[Owlie]

Hee, a little competition can work wonders! DBF is faster than me, and if I ride with him, he lets me set the pace because he's worried that he'll drop me. (The end result is that I come back and am tired, and he comes back and is perfectly fine because he spent the ride drafting off me!) Next time I ride with him, I'm going to see if I can actually keep up with him.

[blue_angel]

Yesterday I made an mph breakthrough: 30 miles in 1:51, for an average pace of 16 mph over the whole ride! That's a full 9 minute improvement over my previous 30 mile benchmark. It sounds crazy, but I had changed my cleat position the day before, and I think that actually affected my pace! I like to spin between 95-105 rpm, so it makes sense that improved efficiency in that cadence would result in speed gains.