Originally Posted by
dbikingman
You apparently don't know how skinnies think. They were probably thinking look at that guy. He got a ride to the top and now is coasting downhill and is going to call that his ride
On my June "Assault on Mt. Mitchell" ride, I stayed with the leaders to the 70-mile point. As you can see, it was somewhat easy for me as these were relatively flat-ish miles (only about 4,000 feet of climbing to that point). Then the climbing would begin: about 6,000 feet over the next 25-miles.
About 2-miles in to the climbing, I had a guy catch up to me, and ask, "Did you ride all the way from Spartanburg [the start]?" Apparently, some people must jump in on the course and
cheat the ride, and he must have thought I did the same, being all fatter than him and all. Surely, that was the only way I could have beaten his skinny butt to this point--82 miles--in the ride.
In between breaths, I answered, "Yeah."
"Good job" he responded with wide eyes.
