Originally Posted by
nkfrench
Some fine advice above. I'll chip in my own 2c:
* It is a courtesy to let a group ride leader know in advance if you are thinking about not returning to the ride start. In my club we make sure everybody gets in safely and somebody would end up backtracking looking for a missing rider to make sure they were OK.
Yup, I thought of this... only after I was long behind everyone else already though. Heh. Live and learn!
Part of me debated simply going back to the start just to make sure they didn't think they lost me. But that would have been an extra 14 miles that I just didn't have in me by that time. The bike shop owner knows where I lived however (he drove me home once when a wheel he sold me crapped out and I had no way of getting home), so I figured he'd deduce that I simply road home instead of back to the start.