What I Learned Mountain Biking This Season

[Irulan]

As stupid as it sounds by just relaxing and trusting my little bike I made it.

that is what you are supposed to do!!!! Glad you had a good one.

[Becky]

So far this season, I've learned that:

1. I do not MTB often enough.
2. MTBing is hard work!
3. I need to learn to trust my bike, especially on downhills. I balk at short steep downhills way too often.

[limewave]

I love reading and seeing women that are 50+ out riding kicking the young kids butts. My mom is 60 and has been very sedentary most of her life. She's had so many problems. I often wonder and hope that when I get to be her age that I will be as active as I am now. Then I realize that many of my friends are my mom's age and are just as active, if not more so. All of you "seasoned" athletes out there are truly an inspiration to me.

[Aggie_Ama]

that is what you are supposed to do!!!! Glad you had a good one.

I know! The funny thing is everytime someone has told me that I looked at them like they were crazy. But now I know they were right and I have a little more confidence to boot.

[limewave]

I forgot to mention that I learned to:

Ride the flats
Until I started riding with some other women, I didn't realize that I was only riding the hills and mostly coasting through the flats. I saved all of my effort for the climbs. I was so impressed with the women I met this summer because they flew through the flat sections. Once I got used to riding hard in the flats, I had more momentum and became a better climber and a much faster mountain biker