I'm glad I found this place!

[Aromig]

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

[Pax]

Welcome Amy, I'm over in Urbana IL.

[lph]

Welcome to TE, enjoy yourself!

[zoom-zoom]

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.

Ha, I got my current road bike in early Dec., a couple of years ago. It was stuck on the trainer for 3 whole months...oh, that was so miserable! I hope your leg is healed sooner than that.

[Grits]

Welcome to TE! Sorry about your injury. Many of us have had to take time off from riding for various injuries and illnesses, but you can always make it back up. Be sure to let yourself heal adequately. How did you break your leg?

[Aromig]

Thanks everyone!

Pax -- I drive that by your area on the way to Ottawa, Chicago at least a few times every summer! Does the college atmosphere help with cool things to do/rides?

lph -- I've never been to Oslo, but I actually broke my leg in Norway (Kjerag). I was sad I spent most of my vacation in a hospital in Stavanger instead of getting to see your beautiful country.

Zoom-Zoom -- were you worried about the trainer damaging your bike? My other bike is pretty darn sturdy, so I was really worried when hooking up the road bike to the trainer.

[Giulianna23]

Welcome to TE from another Indiana member. Hope you get well soon!...

[lph]

lph -- I've never been to Oslo, but I actually broke my leg in Norway (Kjerag).

Ok, so now I'm curious - how did you break your leg? I've never been to Kjerag but my dh has climbed there, and my in-laws are on their way there to go hiking as I type

[zoom-zoom]

Zoom-Zoom -- were you worried about the trainer damaging your bike? My other bike is pretty darn sturdy, so I was really worried when hooking up the road bike to the trainer.

Nope--I'm FAR more worried about our crap roads hurting my baby!

[Aromig]

I bought a trek Domane 4.5. I'm a little nervous that it's a new design, but I liked how it rode. I didn't get a WSD (the wait time was longer) and I'm a tall girl so except for the saddle and paint scheme the measurements were the same.

I was parachuting at the annual Heliboogie at Kjerag and twisted my ankle on landing. I received excellent medical care in Norway!

It's very neat to see so many Midwesterners on here!

[lph]

I was parachuting at the annual Heliboogie at Kjerag and twisted my ankle on landing. I received excellent medical care in Norway!

Oh, very cool! I used to skydive, and my only broken bone is from a badly thought out landing, when I broke a small bone in my hand.

A pity you had to spend time in a hospital on vacation.

[malkin]

I was parachuting at the annual Heliboogie at Kjerag and twisted my ankle on landing. I received excellent medical care in Norway!

That's way more cool than when I sprained my ankle standing in line at a bank in Oslo which is hardly cool at all, but yah, I got excellent medical care too, because there was a medical office right upstairs from the bank and a guy who had been behind me in line, scooped me up off of the floor, carried me upstairs, and set me on the counter at the doctor's office.

I also got rubella in Bergen, but no medical care was really needed for that. The doc was pretty nice though, and only a little bit confused by the fact that the other California student with rubella and I had the same first name.

Welcome to TE!!

[goldfinch]

Because the bike is so new for you and because you are recovering from the injury, I would put platform pedals on the bike and wait on the clipless.

[Aromig]

I do have a pair of platform pedals somewhere around the house I'll likely put on before I ever take the bike outside, there's no way going outside clipless in the near future is anywhere near safe. I was surprised it was so hard since I've never had problems before. I guess that's what major surgery and 9 weeks of vegging does for you . I'm telling myself that at least on the trainer, clipping out is like PT for my ankle strength :-)

[lph]

That's way more cool than when I sprained my ankle standing in line at a bank in Oslo which is hardly cool at all, but yah, I got excellent medical care too, because there was a medical office right upstairs from the bank and a guy who had been behind me in line, scooped me up off of the floor, carried me upstairs, and set me on the counter at the doctor's office.

Was he cute?