Hi
I fancied signing up to a cycling community and this one seems pretty good so here I am, I may as well give a little background on my cycling.
I started cycling in 2010 when I bought my current mountain bike on the cycle to work scheme, I have never been to serious about it or done many miles until recent years as at the end of 2011 I became very ill very quickly and ended up having an emergency operation to remove my entire large bowel followed by many issues and other big operations in the following years. As you can probably imagine being without a large part of your digestive system poses a number of health issues making it very hard to function day to day as it's difficult to get the nutrition you require, fitness is virtually impossible due to the lack of iron I seem to get among other things and the fact I have very little immune system... that's enough excuses though this is why I cycle!
I have tried a few times to get cycling without sticking to it until this year when in May I decided I wanted to do 30 miles a week which would hopefully see me get 1000 by the end of the year, I never stick to anything but amazingly I haven't missed a single week since and completed the 1000 miles a few weeks ago! It's probably not very impressive to most serious cyclists but every ride I do is an uphill battle so I will probably never manage to be very good at it.
I'm hoping by joining a forum I may be able to get some tips and tricks to make me a better rider and get my average speed up as it's pretty slow and unimpressive.
Introductions is probably not the place for all that back story but it does say tell us a little about yourself and the cycling you do I just told a lot instead of a little lol
My strava profile if anybody is interested
https://www.strava.com/athletes/9164675
I fancied signing up to a cycling community and this one seems pretty good so here I am, I may as well give a little background on my cycling.
I started cycling in 2010 when I bought my current mountain bike on the cycle to work scheme, I have never been to serious about it or done many miles until recent years as at the end of 2011 I became very ill very quickly and ended up having an emergency operation to remove my entire large bowel followed by many issues and other big operations in the following years. As you can probably imagine being without a large part of your digestive system poses a number of health issues making it very hard to function day to day as it's difficult to get the nutrition you require, fitness is virtually impossible due to the lack of iron I seem to get among other things and the fact I have very little immune system... that's enough excuses though this is why I cycle!
I have tried a few times to get cycling without sticking to it until this year when in May I decided I wanted to do 30 miles a week which would hopefully see me get 1000 by the end of the year, I never stick to anything but amazingly I haven't missed a single week since and completed the 1000 miles a few weeks ago! It's probably not very impressive to most serious cyclists but every ride I do is an uphill battle so I will probably never manage to be very good at it.
I'm hoping by joining a forum I may be able to get some tips and tricks to make me a better rider and get my average speed up as it's pretty slow and unimpressive.
Introductions is probably not the place for all that back story but it does say tell us a little about yourself and the cycling you do I just told a lot instead of a little lol
My strava profile if anybody is interested
https://www.strava.com/athletes/9164675
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. Set yourself realistic goals. Fantasy ones that are beyond reach can be demoralising, or break it down, so looking at a weekly target that's building to the year target is much easier to chip away at. Some weeks you might do under so you can then try to do more the following week if you want to "catch up".
