I got into riding after meeting two triathletes at my local pool. I’m a good swimmer so we started all working out together and they got me riding. One of these guys could be a bit self centered and once I got into road and mt biking, we were always riding the route he selected. Then he started dating a women, also a cyclist and runner and when they would be arriving at a ride start, they were routinely arriving 10-15 minutes after the roll time, then taking 10-15 minutes to get ready. It was weird as individually they would usually be on time, but never when together.

After a few years of this, we were scheduled to meet for a winter mt bike ride at 7:30 AM, one of the guys was riding up from home so didn’t want to be standing around waiting for the always late couple. Thus on this day we had stated, we are riding at 7:30. Of course they show up late, we see their car pulling into the lot as we head into the woods. The guy chases me down in the woods, catches up to me and starts to berate me that they had been in time, yada, yada, etc…. I looked him in the eye and said “Hey Tom, go **** yourself”. Haven’t seen either of them since, easily 25 years ago,