"over 40"...show of hands?

[stella2]

I'm 61, and I started riding, very slowly and very short distances, about 5 years ago. I like it better than any other form of exercise, and I'm pleased to say that I now weigh 60 pounds less than I did when I started. I still don't go very fast, and I usually don't go really far either, but I can if I want to or need to. Lately I've been riding to work and to the grocery store. I'd like to try a road trip, but I'm a little bit afraid of roads.

Kris, that really inspiring to me were you by any chance nervous of going downhill when you started (see thread Nervous Nelly scared of hills!). Anyway, you sound brilliant.

[Kris]

Kris, that really inspiring to me were you by any chance nervous of going downhill when you started (see thread Nervous Nelly scared of hills!). Anyway, you sound brilliant.

Thanks. I live in Central Illinois, and hills here are pretty tame. I did ride as a child, and that helped too. I haven't had, or made, many opportunities to ride downhill at breakneck speed, but when I started, I was more afraid of going up than coming down, of the humiliation of having to walk my bike up the little hill I live on. I had to master using the gears before I could make it up on the bike. Now it's almost easy.