Thanks everyone for your good advice. My husband is a Great wheel and I guess what it comes down to is that I just need to improve enough to to left him pull me at 18 or 19 mph for 190 miles. I do great with just him but if we get with a bigger line I get twitchy because I don't trust my bike handling skills in crisis situations. Moving up to the next group is is what I'll probably do and hang on the back and just work to ride myself up to the middle and try not to worry too much about getting dropped because I do really enjoy riding my bike. I'll alsl work in some fast miles and intervals during the week.