Ok girls - just how many of us are there here?

treke

How long you train depends on you there is a great web site cycling performance tips that is good for advice it gives some off season programs.For myself I'm coming back from a injury all I'm allowed to do is thirty min. per day I do a warm up ten to fithteen min. then sprint for thirty seconds, peddle easy for sixty seconds, sprint for sixty seconds, peddle easy for sixty, sprint for ninety seconds then cool down. I don't know if this will help you? If I knew more about you like how long you have been cycling, what are your goals I might be able to be more helpful. Please feel free to email me lisa@premierenvelope.com Good luck Treke

treke

How long you train depends on you there is a great web site cycling performance tips that is good for advice it gives some off season programs.For myself I'm coming back from a injury all I'm allowed to do is thirty min. per day I do a warm up ten to fithteen min. then sprint for thirty seconds, peddle easy for sixty seconds, sprint for sixty seconds, peddle easy for sixty, sprint for ninety seconds then cool down. I don't know if this will help you? If I knew more about you like how long you have been cycling, what are your goals I might be able to be more helpful. Please feel free to email me lisa@premierenvelope.com Good luck Treke

treke

How long you train depends on you there is a great web site cycling performance tips that is good for advice it gives some off season programs.For myself I'm coming back from a injury all I'm allowed to do is thirty min. per day I do a warm up ten to fithteen min. then sprint for thirty seconds, peddle easy for sixty seconds, sprint for sixty seconds, peddle easy for sixty, sprint for ninety seconds then cool down. I don't know if this will help you? If I knew more about you like how long you have been cycling, what are your goals I might be able to be more helpful. Please feel free to email me lisa@premierenvelope.com Good luck Treke

Greyhorse

Hello all, just wanted to introduce myself. I am probably as unathletic as possible, I didn't even play sports in high school. I am 37 yrs old, registered nurse by occupation. I started riding my daughters bike a couple of months ago and took my dogs along so they could get some exercise. I was riding a couple of times a week, not very far. My husband bought me a bike for Christmas and now I am really hooked! I have been riding 4x week since then, would ride more but 12hr work shifts cut into a lot of fun! I ride about 10-12 miles each time I ride. Mostly rolling gravel roads. My other interests include my 3 kids and horses.
Glad to be here!
Greyhorse

vrkelley

When I have long shifts, I bring the bike on a carrier and then go out at lunch time. It helps to deal with stress

niwatori

bel from australia here!

meae51

Hello from sunny Hawaii. My 1st post...great to see so many women on wheels! I'm 52, a nurse and took up cycling 3 years age. Started on a hybrid but now on a Cannondale road bike. Have completed 5 triathlons from sprint distance to tinman...training for the Honolulu Triathlon starting next week. But recovering from a stress fracture so will only do the swim and 2 other galpals will each do a section. You can check out the AARP TriUmph series...they are all over the USA and the 400m swim is always in a pool...and yes they allow under 50's to compete

mtbchick

Hi my name is Diana and I ride a Mtbike and I am tring to sale a rode bike I am 37 and I live in Nv, I live to ride and look for men.

Susan Repp

Hi

I am Sue .. do you actually meet any men out there? I bought a road bike last year and a mtb this last month. Why are you selling your road bike? I live in Colorado Springs and it is a great place to do both (unless an ass knocks you out on the road). I hope mtbing is less dangerous (ha, ha)! I must say I am a little nervous about what I want to ride. I am also over 21 so I don't bounce too well; but, I don't just want to toddle along on some flat trail either. I can do that on my roadie. Do you do anything radical? I guess I have to get out there and try it - getting over an injury so I am hoping to get on by summer. Do you get to do much riding where you are in the winter?

Sue

MissusParker

Hello there! I think that this si a fantastic idea! I too am always curious about other women who love the sport of Cycling as much as I do!
I am an opera singer, and got into the sport through spin classes. I am shopping for my first real race bike, and want to start training seriously for some races. Any suggestions for a Londoner?

JuneBug

ok. I am just an amateur cyclist, age 40 this year. My nickname is
SHELLED

as in SHELLED OFF THE BACK

If I can get off this computer and stop posting so much and get ON MY TRAINER... then maybe that wont happen this year..!!!

hahaha

well at least I am learning how to corner. and you CAN ride and read the forums at the same time. its just hard to type.

Deanster

Ladies or I'll say Esteemed Women Riders (meant in the greatest of respect), I am so glad that you are all out there. I am in my 50th year of riding European racing bikes and can remember the days when you knew every rider in your region (all men). In the early 60's there were some very good women riders and they were fun to ride with. Until title IX women in competitive sports wasn't "in" so they were the "oddballs" and so were all the guys riding 10 spds meaning 2x5.
Last month I was riding in Colorado Springs and watched the whole T-Mobile women's team cruise by (or should I say Roaring by) between 35 and 39 kph in a well disciplined peleton. It was great to see how far riding has come. Keep it up. Colorado has the largest population of serious (and casual) women riders I have ever seen. It is so good for the sport of riding to see women riding because they influence other women to ride and become mothers to influence the next generation and so on and so forth...Glad to see this thread and I won't butt any more...You go girls!!!

JuneBug

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mtbchick
[B]Hi my name is Diana and I ride a Mtbike

I bought Marla Strebbs book about the Downhill Gravity GOdess. I bought it at the end of the summer but just started to read it now. I can't seem to put it down.

I want to ride so bad outside but up here , in northern Illinois, its cold and snow up to your shins. Though if you bundle up you really can get a 'different' kinda ride. On snow your mountain bike kinda feels like pedalling on Rollers in the Sand. I dont know how else to describe it but you really do need perfect circles to keep moving. and its a heck of a workout!
I just got an email from a gal I ride with , her and her hubby put Studded tires on and were out galavanting in the snow on their mountain bikes, happy as can be.
I think I"ll have to chuck the 75 bucks a tire down and get some studded fore and afts myself just to get outside. Otherwise its just snow shoes in sub zero.....and day dreaming of some future Dirt in the summer.

Hey. at least frozen ground and snow is still better than the 'treat' of spring thaw and all that mud you have to deal with while everything melts to summer. waiting is killin me!

cfsmtb

Hi, it's about time I posted something here. I've been posting stuff to aus.bicycle & cycling forums since last year. Um, don't _really know where to start, it's a looonnggg strange story.

Well I started cycling at age 3-4 in Hobart, Tasmania, gave up at 12 due to social pressures, unsuitable bikes available in the 70's/80's, blahblahblah. Re-started in late twenties via a Malvern Star bike via the local tip in Melbourne. Fell in love with it and duly decorated it with stick on rhinestones. Since then I've got progressively more "serious" about cycling, fiddling around with bikes, advocacy etc. Now interested in Audax, Touring, Critical Mass, Bicycle User Groups, Single Speed & MTB. Wish to do the Audax PBP in France in 2007, 1200km in 90hours. (oh yeah baby)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/cfsmtb
As you can see from that, I'm not terribly seriously about anything. Apols if my attitude seems flippant but it stems from being in too many bad places for too long.

My cycling heroes are Beryl Burton & Danny Clark. A personal dream is to keep cycling until at least 80+.

All my bikes are called Frank, except for the road bike I'm building up at present. She will be called Beryl.



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