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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
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    Dallas, TX
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    I guess I am not a noob anymore either. I didn't ride quite as much as you, only about 3000 miles in 2010 so far...pretty good considering last year I had trouble making it around the 10 mile lake just once!

    I also completed my first century (Hotter'n Hell) without much trouble.

    Here's to all the noob graduates!!
    Mary
    ~Strong and content, I travel the open road.~



    http://www.the3day.org/goto/mary.aguirre

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    West MI
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    My hubby (a USA Cycling certified coach) gave me the biggest compliment recently. He told me that when he first got serious about riding and bought his fancy road bike that he wasn't as fast as I already am and didn't log the sort of miles I have until he'd been riding for 2-3 years (and that it won't be long before he has to work to keep up with me, instead of the reverse). And I will have run at least 1k miles by the end of the year, too, assuming no injury.

    Of course, I used this to my advantage when we recently started talking bikes. His was $3500 new and I'm looking at a $2600 bike, before 20% discount and selling my existing bike (he has never sold a single bike). He had no room to be his usual frugal, "dutchie" self.
    Kirsten
    run/bike log
    zoomylicious


    '11 Cannondale SuperSix 4 Rival
    '12 Salsa Mukluk 3
    '14 Seven Mudhoney S Ti/disc/Di2

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    IL
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    Even with the injury, Zoomy was a biking and running machine!

    You've definitely "earned" that new bike!
    200x Electra Townie 24D/Brooks B67

  4. #4
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Location
    South Central Indiana
    Posts
    624
    Yay for you! And it's awesome that you are back searching for another bike!

    I long for the day when I am no longer a noob, but I will probably always feel a bit noobish. Mainly because I always have something to learn. But maybe in a year or so, I will figure it out.
    ***proud Hoosier, statistics nerd, and mom to a headstrong toddler***
    ****one car family and loving it!****

    Owned by:
    Le Monstre Vert - 2013 Surly Cross-check
    Chessie, Scottish Terrier
    Bonzai, Catahoula Leopard Dog

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
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    West MI
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    Quote Originally Posted by colorisnt View Post
    I long for the day when I am no longer a noob, but I will probably always feel a bit noobish. Mainly because I always have something to learn. But maybe in a year or so, I will figure it out.
    Nah, if always having something new to learn = noob, then I will always be one. I don't ever want to get to the point where there is nothing new. That wouldn't be any fun.
    Kirsten
    run/bike log
    zoomylicious


    '11 Cannondale SuperSix 4 Rival
    '12 Salsa Mukluk 3
    '14 Seven Mudhoney S Ti/disc/Di2

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
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    Quote Originally Posted by zoom-zoom View Post
    Nah, if always having something new to learn = noob, then I will always be one. I don't ever want to get to the point where there is nothing new. That wouldn't be any fun.
    +1,000 on this! Before my injury I have learned a great deal on the bike this year - and one of the biggest is just how much I have yet to learn

  7. #7
    Join Date
    May 2007
    Location
    San Francisco, CA
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    Quote Originally Posted by zoom-zoom View Post
    Nah, if always having something new to learn = noob, then I will always be one. I don't ever want to get to the point where there is nothing new. That wouldn't be any fun.
    Try skateboarding! Yow!

    -- gnat!
    Windsor: 2010 S-Works Ruby
    Pantysgawn: 2011 S-Works Stumpjumper 29er
    Whiz!: 2013 S-Works Crux (Singlespeed)
    Boucheron: 2009 S-Works Tricross
    Haloumi: 2013 Tern P7i
    Kraft: 2009 Singlecross
    Gouda: 2005 Electra Betty
    Roquefort: 1974 Stella SX-73

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    West MI
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    Quote Originally Posted by gnat23 View Post
    Try skateboarding! Yow!

    -- gnat!
    As if I haven't brutalized my left ankle enough this year, heh! My friends keep trying to get me to mountain bike...hells no. I am just too much of a klutz for that!
    Kirsten
    run/bike log
    zoomylicious


    '11 Cannondale SuperSix 4 Rival
    '12 Salsa Mukluk 3
    '14 Seven Mudhoney S Ti/disc/Di2

 

 

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