Originally Posted by
OldTryGuy
There is a Saturday AM ride with another group, most of them racers and then there is a PM ride out of a local park that is a hammerfest but with us we just go and enjoy. Just got back from a 62 miler with 42 of those miles riding with 3 other guys, 67 year old, 66 year old, me a 64 yo and the youngster at 53, at a 21.7mph average just a bit slower than Saturday's AM ride of 32 miles at 22.8mph average. No sprinting going on, just good old fashioned long uninterrupted miles.
Was that good old fashioned ride accomplished by long stretches of peloton type drafting/tailgating of each other in order to maintain that pace for those distances? I might wear a helmet too if I was forced to participate in that type of cycling which I consider far more risky than riding properly, albeit slower, with a safe distance between cyclists.