As a three-month new road cyclist/senior, I'm learning everything as fast as possible and feeling like I'll never get it. I've always been the one in the soft chair with a novel gripped in two fists, so this is a huge change for me.

I have a wonderful road bike, can now clip in and also stop without nearly killing myself, and I'm trying to get stronger so I can do longer distances, faster, and with hills.

All that said, every time I get on my bike, I'm scared. I have a friend who is a very accomplished cyclist who helps me, but he has little clue what the nervous nelly problem is really like, nor do I really want to explain I'm a coward.

All that said, are there other new grannies out there learning to ride after a life of doing other things? How did you get better, what works for you? How can we help each other?