Hello everyone.

I started riding a bike again four years ago, casually not so much for exercise although the point of getting the bike was to ride to town for exercise with my kids for ball in the summer. It is 4 miles one way. I had two kids in a Burley adding 75 pounds and the route is all gravel and hilly. My legs were like cast iron after that first summer.

This spring, at the tender age of 44 I just bought a new bike, Giant Yukon, so I can use the bike for pure exercise purposes. I have always worked out and stayed fit...I'm using biking mainly for crosstraining and something to do outdoors besides running. I bike mostly on gravel roads but do jump on paved roads too. So I don't fit into any category...not a road biker, not a mountain biker. I'm a gravel biker. That would be the expression I got from the guys at the bike shop when they asked me what kind of biking I did.

I have just found this website this week so I have really enjoyed reading alot of the threads already. I have also bought three books this week on triathlon training...it's a goal.