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Outside of this forum, these are some excellent (in my beginner's opinion!) resources:

1) books:

A Woman's Guide to Cycling by Susan Weaver
The Female Cyclist by Gale Barnhardt
Mountain Bike Like a Champion by Ned Overend

(I think all of them can be found at http://www.amazon.com/

2) other website:

http://www.ultracycling.com/


Coming to this forum, reading those books, and reading that website have helped me tremendously.

While we don't have a lot of mountains, we are somewhat hilly here in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, US...

I have been riding since July 2001 (prior to that, the last time I rode was 16 years ago when I had half a paper route, approx 1 1/2 miles round trip), ) and have since completed 2 week-long, cross-state tours and 1 century ride.

Above all, ride and have fun!!