I'm glad I found this place!
Hi there -- I just registered yesterday and these forums seem really useful!
I started riding last fall to get more fit and to lose weight. I'd not been riding for decades (I think when I was 15 before I got a car, LOL?) so the bike shop suggested a comfort bike. I bought it -- and by June I was riding 50 miles some weeks, with a long ride of 30 or so miles on Saturdays and my comfort bike just wasn't cutting it on my rides with friends, so I started looking at road bikes and ordered one.
I broke my leg in June -- and I'm still recovering and my new bike just came in earlier this week! I don't think I can go riding yet (I'm not to full weight bearing) but I couldn't wait so I put the bike on a trainer last night. Its uncomfortable still (new geometry that I'm not used to, and I'm not really comfortable with the leg yet and I've lost lots of core strength through inactivity). It killed me to put a brand new bike on a trainer, but boy I had to get on it and I'm totally not OK to ride yet.
In any event, I hope to be able to get out to really ride sometime in the next month and I look forward to meeting everyone on here!
Amy