Everyone, thank you for the encouragement. It was, to say the least, a humbling experience! Some of my co-workers asked me if it discouraged me, and my honest answer was that it did not, what it did was piss me off and make me determined to get in the pack, and move forward from there. I have already started to switch my training rides from distance to intervals, speed, and climbing faster. Next season I will race as much as I can and get my slow a$$ to stay in the group!

...then I want to do a few time trials...the suffering with that discipline seems intense!