Riding through the years.

I ride almost 4 times a week and until recently with a fair sized group.
Now there are about 6 of us that ride together on and off. But a lot of my
riding now is solo. This largely because the group is aging and losing the
ability to do the rides that I still do. Saturday rides are easy rides but
on the way out to the coffee stop, they ride harder than I care to, and
then on the return trips they are riding a lot slower having burned
themselve out.

Perhaps one of them is capable of doing my North Palomares route but if he
did he would drop me like a stone since he is 20 years younger than me.
And he would freeze to death at the top waiting for me. So the group id
sging out from under me. Or too young snd too fast to ride at my speed.