Portal · Cycling

Use the group ride, do not survive it

A New England group ride will happily turn your endurance day into a criterium. That is fine if it was the plan. It is expensive if you needed zone 2. Sit in, skip the town-line sprint, and leave when the ride changes character.

If you stay, take short pulls and recover in the draft. The point is time in the aero position and bike handling, not a story about who got dropped on the climb.