Your Cycling Supporters

[Meaux]

My husband is my biggest supporter. He's great! Even when I have a bad ride and don't feel good and get all whiny, he's always telling me what a great job I'm doing and how I kicked that road's @$$.
We found a sponsor for our MS150 team, so that's financial support. This guy is also a really great guy. He's so enthusiastic and so enthralled by the fact that we're doing this ride.
My family is sort of a different story. My father-in-law cycled years ago and I think was inspired to get on the bike after DH and I started riding. Now he's be super competitive and sometimes a little mean and conceited about it. Sometimes I think that he thinks that since he rode 10+ years ago (but not since then) that he knows everything and that he's obviously better than us. Not that I have a problem taking advice, it's just the way that he gives it. He just acts like he invented the sport. It's incredibly frustrating, since I have been trying to look up to him as a father figure, and he can't be one.

[RoadRaven]

My life partner... ny biggest supporter, fan and coach

My older two sons, cause they like to talk races with me and encourage and reassure my weight loss and fitness goals

My daughter, even though she doesn't ride

Three colleagues at work support me by being interested - but they also ride. The rest who can be bothered to remember I bike are more incredulous or think I'm slightly mad - neither of which are supportive.

My ma and pa - they have never been fit in their lives and have always assumed I would be the same. They are thrilled I have taken control of my fitness before I get any older and that my partner supports me - they support physically at events when they can and always take an interest.

I am very lucky in the man I have lived with for over 20 years and the children we are raising together