Hi, I only took up cycling this year as I need to lose about 50lbs, so I set myself a target in the summer of the Norwich 50 mile ride, which I completed in about 3h.35m so averaged over 14.5mph, and was really happy with that.
I also lost a stone in the lead up, however afterwards with no target I've slacked off on the training and got back into some old habits (choc bars etc) so need to pick it up again, targets seem to work so I have decided from 1 Oct to lift the effort a bit and applied for entry into the Inaugural Ride London 100. Its the first official london marathon style cycling event next August and is anticipated to have approx 20,000 people ride the Olympic road race route This is gonna be tough as I do struggle with any kind of hill, and apparently, as Mark Cavendish can vouch for, Box Hill on the course is quite a climb, and he weighs about 6 stone less than me! So I have joined this group, as I've read some of the posts and there are some pretty inspirational people on here.
I've also taken up some kind of October Cycling challenge which someone posted as a topic which looks fun and set myself an intial target to ride 100 miles this month, hopefully will exceed that but a start is a start and 12.5 miles so far all in the dark as the nights have drawn in now.
I currently only have about 4 connections/friends on MFP so would appreciate any adds from you guys as like minded people.
Cheers