Originally Posted by
jackb
I generally ride alone because it seems that every time I ride with a group the group members are intent on going as fast as they can regardless of the ride description. If I am going to ride with people, I would like to chat with them as we ride, but that's difficult to do if everyone is pedaling as fast as they can.
I wish you could join me in one of my group rides. I recently had a rider contact me before the ride. She was concerned that she wouldn't be able to maintain the slowest pace I had listed, as she had heart surgery last year, and is just getting back to riding. I told her to come along and asked her to ride alongside me at the front. The group would ride at her pace. We chatted the entire ride, and at the end, I checked the average speed on my computer. She was 2 MPH faster than she thought she could be (actually right about the middle of the posted speed range for the ride) and wasn't tired at all.