Hello, im new, have thigh questions

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

thanks so much for your adivce and experience. When I horse back rode for years, I had fit thin thighs. The biking I guess is swelling them some and yes I DO WANT a heathier lifesyle and if it means tighter jeans so be it.. I feel stronger and fitter and firmer. This is only after say 3 months. SO that is how new I am.

That sounds great Luna.
Hey when I was young I had a horse for a several years and rode every day, but I never got big leg muscles. Think about where your "horsepower" is coming from next time you're riding your bike uphill.

[freelivez2]

okay I hope you don't get offended by this but thanks for being my bicycling ma. you put a lot in perspective for me. Thanks....
I do understand this but with the history and family influence it is hard for me to always have a clear head and think the way I should POSITIVELY!!!! Thanks you

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

okay I hope you don't get offended by this but thanks for being my bicycling ma. you put a lot in perspective for me. Thanks....
I do understand this but with the history and family influence it is hard for me to always have a clear head and think the way I should POSITIVELY!!!! Thanks you

I am totally tickled- thank you for those very kind words!
Yes it's not always easy to keep things in perspective when society in general, and sometimes family as well, are constantly sending us mixed messages.
You sound like you have your head screwed on right though!

[mimitabby]

Yes, it WAS easier going up hill on a horse, wasn't it.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I sorta wish my bike would go faster when I make clicking noises with my tongue.

Oh that reminds me of an embarrassing memory re:bikes....
When I was 12, I was given a one speed blue girls Schwinn. I called it "Heather" (ugh!). I never had much up to then except just roller skates, so this was like a dream come true for me.
We lived in the country at the time, and I woould take my bike along the abandoned railroad tracks to ride (the ties were long gone, just a trail left).
As a typical 12 year old girl- I dreamed of horses endlessly. I was riding my bike along the tracks and I pretended it was a horse, and started making cowboy horse riding sounds "Giddyup", clicking my tongue, even neighing and snorting! (I was a bit too old to be doing this, but there was no one around) Then to my horror a grown up cyclist came up behind me silently, said Hello and passed me. He HAD to have heard ALL my horsey-pretend noises!!
Gawd, was that embarrassing.

[Luna]

No Lisa . That was all too cute a story and I can relate. Biking to me is the next best thing to horses and less money

[li10up]

Lisa, when I read your post about "if you don't want any muscles, then don't exercise!" I expected you'd get some backlash. I'm glad that it was taken in the spirit intended. We all know how things in writing don't usually easily convey the true emotions intended... Anyhow, I just wanted to say you are absolutely right. I WISH I could see some more bulk IF IT WAS MUSCLE. Women need to embrace muscle! After all, don't we all want to be strong women - mentally, emotionally, and physically?

"A STRONG MIND IN A STRONG BODY."

[Dianyla]

As a typical 12 year old girl- I dreamed of horses endlessly. I was riding my bike along the tracks and I pretended it was a horse, and started making cowboy horse riding sounds "Giddyup", clicking my tongue, even neighing and snorting! (I was a bit too old to be doing this, but there was no one around) Then to my horror a grown up cyclist came up behind me silently, said Hello and passed me. He HAD to have heard ALL my horsey-pretend noises!!
Gawd, was that embarrassing.

I think that is just the sweetest story, Lisa!

I think if I were a horse, I'd definitely be a cob. Yep, a short little cobby pony. With a bad temper!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I think if I were a horse, I'd definitely be a cob. Yep, a short little cobby pony. With a bad temper!

You'd be one of those Welsh ponies, with the long flaxen mane and the forelock hanging down over it's eyes. You'd have a bad temper, and rightly so, from being down in the coal mines.
I'd probably be a Morgan, like the NYC Police Dept used to ride. Dependable, not gun shy, but quick on my feet if necessary!

[missymaya]

I loove my muscles. Exactly what kimmyt said.

[Luna]

I did not think I would enjoy biking so much that im upset when i can't go or my business ties me down, I really am a newbie at it, AS i said I ride a townie electra 21 speed. I bike with a woman who is experienced and used to ride a rode bike and still does at times but goes biking with me on her townie. We are in florida so it is flat. We ride along the bay fronts and she is taking me up a bridge were alot of bikers go over this water way. I can only make it to the top and then back. I will soon be ready to go over the otherside and back . I used to not make it 1/4, now i go to the top. I lead the crew out on the bikes too at about 14MPH. May be slow to some real bikers huh?

[Luna]

That sounds great Luna.
Hey when I was young I had a horse for a several years and rode every day, but I never got big leg muscles. Think about where your "horsepower" is coming from next time you're riding your bike uphill.

Yeah, thats great, I will think of my legs as horses legs. To a horse person horse legs are the best!