I couldn't agree more. I started riding in mid June and have really enjoyed all the riding the past 10 or 11 weeks. I ride by myself on my road bike in the mornings and I get equal joy from those rides as I do from the slow, short trips on my hybrid to the store or when tooling around with my family in the evening.
I've been keeping morning road-bike rides tracked in a small dayplanner and I'm quite pleased with the results.
Here's to being back, getting fit again, and having a community of like-minded women to talk about it!