Greetings Sister Bikers!

I recently discovered Team Estrogen and have really enjoyed lurking and reading the different posts but decided it was time to introduce myself.

I've been biking off and on since my parents bought me my first emerald green Schwinn in the early 1960's Five years ago when my husband got serious about biking we traded our 20-year old 10 speeds for comfort bikes. That was in February ... by September we both had road bikes .. a yellow and blue Trek 2200 WSD for me and a 7600 FX that dh has since tricked out with drop bars, Shimano 105 shifters and a carbon front fork. By the next spring we had Trek 4900 mountain bikes and had given our comfort bikes to friends who really needed to get out and ride. The first time I got on my 2200 I told my husband that I didn't know if I 'needed' the bike since I wasn't a roadie. His reply was ... 'you could be'. Since then I've put on about 1500 miles a year on my road bike alone and I am glad he saw the roadie in me when I couldn't.

Last year when I was celebrating my 50th birth year I warned everyone that I did not want to receive one card about being over the hill or anything in 'black' .. unless it was in the form of a little black dress ... I was so excited about being 50 and starting this new adverture in my life's journey that I didn't want anything negative to take away from my joy. My husband planned my anniversary birth day to inclue a romantic get away, a heart felt letter all topped off with a Trek 5200 WSD. What an awesome ride.

When I'm not biking I'm enjoying researching family history and my creative outlet is writing the history into narrative form. I also enjoy raising and training our four English cocker spaniels - our three son's (30, 27 and 25) all enjoy riding with us - they are all into mountain biking and we hope to get at least the oldest son and his wife into road biking - my daughter-in-law and I are the same size so she can use the 2200. While I'm not into the racing aspect we do a lot of charity rides during the year.

So .. enough about me .. I look forward to meeting more of my sister bikers.