....must come down. We all learned that in elementary school, right? I've been emailing recently with someone on a local cycling team about joining. Part of the process is to join them for a ride so they can check you out - I think mostly to make sure you don't show up on a purple tricycle and that you're at least going to make a reasonable attempt to keep up. It's a strong team and I know that the best way to get better at anything is to do it with people who are stronger, better, and faster than you. They do a Monday night no-drop ride which was what the very kind membership coordinator recommended I try. I didn't really mention my PT restrictions on speed/climbing because I don't want to be the lame kid that shows up on the first day with a note. And I discovered, in kind, that she didn't really mention that it's not just a ride, it's a hill workout, one that covers a lot of the tough terrain I rode in last summer's hill workouts - an...
