Get comfortable drafting if you want to ride with the fastest groups in your community. The typical Saturday ride I do barely gets my heart going if I draft the whole way but if I pull I get a great work out. Then on the harder ride I go on I barely can make it drafting the whole time, do I prefer being at the front of the pack pulling, of course! The fact is drafting is part of riding in a group, it's the reason a group can ride so much faster than a solo rider.