Originally Posted by
Jakedatc
+1 for my group rides i put my garmin on the map and only don't look at avg speed or anything else until the end. I either have it to stay in the group or I don't and whatever speed that day is doesn't matter. I am kinda in the same boat of B+/A- for our shop ride (tho i'm the skinny bastard you hate on hills but coast past going down).
If you are getting dropped on hills and know the routes you are doing then move yourself up before the hill then have everyone pass you going up. Then you are at the back going down and can recover.
knowing the speed difference between A and B would be helpful too. One shop I ride with the A is 20-21 down to 18-19 for B or a different shop they say the A is 18-20 and the B is 16-17.
Pretty tame so called A group rides. My favorite group is what I call A- and average speed is 21mph with a sprint up over 30 at one point and the line can roll 25+ leading up to this for a couple of miles. There are a couple of faster groups in town with lots of CAT racers. A local CAT 2 sometimes joins our ride for fun. Probably his recovery ride.
Pretty funny in the sprint. He rides away from our group. The first time he joined us, I was near the front and grabbed his wheel as I didn't know him...and we were rolling 30mph for over a mile or so and I went anaerobic and he rode away from my buddy and me. We got dropped.
Nice guy. He rides BIG miles and I see him on the road all the time.