biking club

[RoadRaven]

Just persevere, Iggy

You have a great base of SPIN behind you, so just be patient. You will find your place. Many of us here started out frustrated because we were too fast or too slow for the people we rode with.

I would be too fast on the flat, but not be able to keep up on the hills... with time I have been able to move up a grade and now only get dropped on the truly hilly rides. Most races I am beginning to be able to stay with the leading bunch or the chasing bunch. Albeit in a low grade, but I have a place.

Take heart, your body will adapt and respond - and because of the spinning, you will probably find you respond much faster than someone like me.

[Geonz]

+1 on the "keep doin' it." You've done it once. YOu have also started in *August.* I can almost guarantee, sight unseen, that the pace is significantly faster with fewer options for rest than that same ride offered early in the year. (We call it "midseason pace creep" and it's danged near unavoidable. This ride leader has been dropped by her 'beginners' rather often in August, trying to hold to the advertised speed ).

The learning curve seems steep but it happens fairly quickly. I lead our club's easiest ride and it is usually 22 miles, though we usually pause a lot. People are generally astounded at how quickly they progress from 22 miles being just the other side of forever to it being "just a ride."

[madscot13]

Hey, I know how to bike more than one route. That is my extended- I have nothing better to do today- bike route.

[aicabsolut]

You said you didn't know the area very well yet. I was just trying to let you know about some good roads..