Lately I've been meeting my buddy for a training ride before work. I leave at 6:30, hustle to the parking garage at my building, drop off my bag in my bike locker, and meet my buddy at the trail at 7. We do an out and back on the ARBT, then I sprint back to the office, lock up the bike, take a quick shower and hopefully I'm at my desk by 8:30.

This morning we were the jerky roadies. We were doing 21 and came up on a guy doing probably 19. We announced "on your left" and passed. We heard the clunk of down shifting and looked to see him attempting to latch on. My buddy said "let's go." And we ramped it up to 24. The guy hung on for a few hundred meters and my buddy said "draft me for a little bit." And he ramped it up to 28. That was at least 500W. After a couple of minutes we looked back and he was dropped.

"No free rides."