sorry, I wasn't implying they were slowing them or going to slow us, just that these people never took a turn at the front. I'm no strong puller myself but I'll stay up as long as I can. I'd say I'm the weakest rider of our group but thats mostly because I havn't been riding the past 3 months as often as the others have. I tend to suck a lot while I work up to their level, it's slowly coming back though.

I think it's more of an annoyance of a group sucking for 100 miles and I think the main riders from our group just want to make a point this year. It's always the same riders at the Savannah century taking off with the early group, I think they just want to make sure we pull away from that group.

It's a relatively flat ride, so it should be a fast one, we cross the Talmadge bridge which literally has almost all the climb in the ride.

I'm more concerned with water and food and the inevitable bonk.