ajclarkson
Active Member
- Location
- Durham
Hello to everyone, I've been skim reading through cyclechat for a while now and it seems like a great community, so I thought I'd get involved as the cycling bug bites harder!
A bit about me.
I'm a 25 year old currently living in Durham, but originally from West Yorkshire. I've been cycle "commuting" to my office for about 3 years now, originally on a mountain bike that I stuck semi-slicks on, but for the past couple of years I've been on a Carrera road bike. It's on about 2.5 miles each way, but on the way back there's a nice 4% hill for about 0.7km that still makes the legs scream.
At the start of the year my interest in cycling shot up and I decided to start on my journey to becoming a "roadie", even picked up a turbo trainer for our lovely North Eastern winter, but work got in the way (or so was my excuse for being lazy). Here in Durham it seems you can't get about 2 miles away from my place without hitting a 4% or greater hill, and that was wrecking my morale. So I've decided to hit the trainer hard and build up my cardio fitness and legs a bit so I can conquer them and ultimately go on to longer road rides.
For the past couple of weeks I've been doing 7(ish) miles on the trainer 3/4 times a week while watching TV, and I've just picked up a couple of Sufferfest videos (I did Angels the first time yesterday - ouch). Hoping to actually start getting some road miles in now my confidence has gone back up, just don't like walking my bike up hills and feeling deflated!
Now I just need to stop browsing online cycle stores / ebay constantly until I have some money....
Anyway, that's me, hello!!
A bit about me.
I'm a 25 year old currently living in Durham, but originally from West Yorkshire. I've been cycle "commuting" to my office for about 3 years now, originally on a mountain bike that I stuck semi-slicks on, but for the past couple of years I've been on a Carrera road bike. It's on about 2.5 miles each way, but on the way back there's a nice 4% hill for about 0.7km that still makes the legs scream.
At the start of the year my interest in cycling shot up and I decided to start on my journey to becoming a "roadie", even picked up a turbo trainer for our lovely North Eastern winter, but work got in the way (or so was my excuse for being lazy). Here in Durham it seems you can't get about 2 miles away from my place without hitting a 4% or greater hill, and that was wrecking my morale. So I've decided to hit the trainer hard and build up my cardio fitness and legs a bit so I can conquer them and ultimately go on to longer road rides.
For the past couple of weeks I've been doing 7(ish) miles on the trainer 3/4 times a week while watching TV, and I've just picked up a couple of Sufferfest videos (I did Angels the first time yesterday - ouch). Hoping to actually start getting some road miles in now my confidence has gone back up, just don't like walking my bike up hills and feeling deflated!
Now I just need to stop browsing online cycle stores / ebay constantly until I have some money....
Anyway, that's me, hello!!
ajclarkson.
