Suffolk based flat earth society newbie

[Paul Kettless]

Hi all,

Just thought I would pop in and say hi,

I found this site by chance, and from the browsing I have done appears that you have a nice friendly forum here...

I have been cycling for only 9 months or so, and as a man that turned the big 40 last year, I am using my cycling as a ways and means to get fit and drop a few pounds (or as my good lady wife calls it, my mid-life crisis!)

Anyways, I ride nothing flash, it is a 2006 Giant Halo OCR, but it suits me just fine for the moment. I am getting into the endurance events/sportives. So far I have completed two events. The Beccles 50 and the Norwich 100 and I now have the bug to ride more. Hence searching the web for places to find out about up and coming events in my area.

Regards
Paul

 

[Glow worm]

Hi Paul, welcome to the forum from a fellow E. Anglian here

 

[4F]

Indeed welcome, flat is the new black

 

[PoweredByVeg]

Hi there from across the border

This certainly is a good forum for finding out about rides and who's local.

There's always Audax UK that you could join, as an example there's this one which is local to you, I did it last year and intend to do it this year too http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/12-44/

 

[HLaB]

Hiya

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Hi and

 

[Mike!]

welcome from another "suffukion" to by far the most friendy cycling forum on the web

 

[PpPete]

I think my route goes into Suffolk sometime on Saturday, although mostly it is Norfolkin'good.

Welcome to the forum and hope you enjoy your mid-life crisis as much as I'm enjoying mine.

 

[Paul Kettless]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, clearly quite a few cyclist from my area on this forum And also for the link to audax, will take a look.....

 

[PpPete]

I suppose I should warn you that Audax is highly addictive. You start off thinking ... 100 km, that sounds perfectly do-able, even pleasant for a summer Sunday, then before you know it, you've learned to decode the arcane language of the route-sheet, plumbed the mysteries of GPS and start discussing the merits of dynamo versus battery lighting for winter 200 kms because you HAVE TO go for a RRTY.
Then of course it's on to SR and LEL or PBP. You have been warned !

 

[Part time cyclist]

Hi and welcome

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Hello from Ipswich!

There's a fair number of us East Anglians on here now isn't there!

 

[citybabe]

hi Paul.
I'm near to Norwich but grew up in the Lowestoft area

 

[Paul Kettless]

And a canarys fan

 

[citybabe]

Absolutely