Quote Originally Posted by zeWoo View Post
Tell me... am I making some silly school girl mistake... is my situation hopeless??
Woo
Absolutely not - if you want change nothing is ever hopeless. A month or two ago Bicycling magazine did an article about people who had lost a lot of weight cycling. One of them happened to be a fellow racer out here in Seattle. She used to be 272 lbs, at only 5'3". She took off 140 lbs and got fast enough to join an amateur racing team - all at the age of 51! It's not silly at all to look at the women at the ToC crit and think you might some day be out there - it is possible if you really want it - so think big and go for it.