Well, not really a n00b, but close.
My name is witchy and here's my story:
Back in 2000, I bought a GT Aggressor 1.0 under the advice of my boyfriend. We were, we thought, going to become mountain bikers.
Flash forward to last year when we finally decided to put our shiny, completely unused bikes to work. A few rides into the season, I promptly proceeded to wreck and sustained a separated shoulder and concussion number 5 (hint: if you're going to wreck, try not to land on a rock obstacle in the path).
I got back on the bike and tentatively rode through last fall, but decided that the log-jumping and trail-climbing lifestyle was not for me.
Over the holidays this winter, I received a Cyclops trainer for my bike (still my dependable old GT) and after putting road tires on, I tried it out. And have been using it ever since.
A few weeks ago, my best friend bought her first bicycle in 20 years... A Fuji Sunfire (under the pretense that she will commute to work at some point when she gets comfortable being on two wheels again). While touring around the other weekend we started talking and ended up making a pact: we would train for the next year (using whatever equipment we could find) to ride the century loop of the American Cancer Society's ride from Philadelphia.
And that's what we're doing. Two n00bs. One year. One hundred miles.
And we have no idea what we're doing... But we're learning.
So, that's my story.
