Well done BikeWriter and Velocivixen!

BW, I have enjoyed following your journey and have felt as if I shared in your highs and lows. You have done so well reclaiming your health and fitness.

My first year has just passed too. What I feel most of all is PEACE that I have finally achieved a goal that had been niggling at me for decades. I have more choices now in how I transport myself and my family. If I don't want to pay for petrol or bus fares I don't have to. I will never need to join a gym again. I can get right out into the heart of the countryside on my doorstep within minutes, and explore lanes and tracks that I never knew were there before. I can thumb my nose at roadworks and congested carparks. And best of all, I can raise my daughter to have all these choices too. Cool. And doing this has strengthened my self-confidence to take on other wishes and ambitions too. I can ride 8 miles? OK, so it can't be that hard to knit a few inches. And so on.

Happy anniversary to everyone celebrating their first weeks/months/years as a cyclist.