My wife is going downhill slowly

[PhilDawson8270]

Hypnotherapy to reduce the anxiety of traffic?

 

[HarryTheDog]

Yes it can cause problems. A rider slamming on her brakes in front of me, downhill, on a sportive, was the cause of my concussion and broken collar bone. This has resulted in my own nervousness downhill although I'll still do it at speed, but I am very wary riding with other people now.

It will take some time for her to get used to it but I would avoid encouraging her to ride in groups until she's more confident.

Yes as I had mentioned earlier in the thread this is exactly the issue I wished to avoid, her causing and being part of a accident in a large group, the sportive she entered ( velothon wales) we cancelled. As well as the MTB coaching she took, she has also signed up to do a lady's road skills course at Redbridge cycle centre ( Hog Hill as was) . Anyone who knows that course knows it is basically a long downhill follwed by a long uphill drag then short sharp steep uphill, so hopefully she will get some group skills there.

Hypnotherapy to reduce the anxiety of traffic?

Hypnotherapy can work on anything given that you have the right hypnotherapist and a patient open to suggestion. It worked on my wife who also believes in psychic's and such like. It has been tried on my daughter before ( for thumb sucking when she was younger) and it did not work,

 

[HarryTheDog]

@PhilDawson8270 Just a example of how my wife's hypnotherapy seems to have worked, she went out for a ride by herself this morning,( she left me snoring in bed) 20 miles 12.9 mph average, max speed 38 mph. A speed she would never have imagined doing prior to hypnotherapy. She actually cant believe the garmin she know she went down a hill as fast as possible without looking at the speedo as going so fast. She only checked it when she got in.
After uploading it, the 38 was a spike and looks totally wrong, max speed was actually probably 24 mph, still better than it was.