Do I get leverage for Mountain Bike miles as they are far harder than road one ? don't panic its only a joke.

Only if I get bonus points for staying on a trainer - that has got to be the most boring thing ever!!!! At least on the treadmill, your whole body is moving..... Welcome

Just found this group as mainly use the "masters" count me in. Westward I assume you can just download my mileages of do you need me to send them? My bike miles show in cross training Do I get leverage for Mountain Bike miles as they are far harder than road one ? don't panic its only a joke.

Welcome to the group! I'll be more than happy to add you to our January totals.

Do I get leverage for Mountain Bike miles as they are far harder than road one ?

How true! A trail can waste me in half the time the road can. And you don't get to suck a wheel on the trail.

Only if I get bonus points for staying on a trainer - that has got to be the most boring thing ever!!!!

Again, I completely agree. I find changing the pace or gear every 4-5 minutes can take a little monotony out of it. Go to your highest gear and stand for a minute helps. How are the shoes working out? Did you get the clipless pedals?

...Standing is not in the picture yet. I have 2 more weeks to go before I can start my walking program.

Be patient, You'll be glad you did in the long run.

I haven't been able to find a pair of shoes yet !!!! I have big feet - sigh - when I get into a size that fits my foot - the tongue of the shoe cuts into my ankle - it's like it's too high and stiff. I tried a pair of Pearl's that were styled like running shoes - but the piece that holds the clip stuck up inside the shoe, and within 5 minutes of riding - I could tell my feet were not happy. There are a couple of other bike stores in town - I'll be looking around some more next week. If you have any recommendations - love to hear it. I don't want to spend a fortune

Your going about it the right way. Don't settle for anything that doesn't feel good. Two or three hours in a shoe that that doesn't fit well is brutal.

...and I do want shoes with treads.

Mountain bike style shoes should fit the bill. The sole is a lot more flexible than a road shoe. Love that treadmill pic. Thats priceless.

Croydon, How do you manage to split your rides into different categories please?

By categories I'm assuming you mean "Type". I'll go with it and if I'm wrong just let me know. When you make a log entry there is a dropdown menu beside "Type:" where I select Road Ride, Trail Ride, Rollers, etc. To add more "Types" to this menu click on "Options" at the upper right, then "My Log Preferences", look down at "Workout types:" and click on which type you want to modify. Just enter in the boxes what you want to call it and click on the color block to change that. You can change the colors of any of them for that matter. At the bottom click "Save".

,,,Also can anyone tell me how you post photographs on to messages, mine are in Vista.

You need to have the photo or image stored on the web. At the top of the text box there is an icon with a mountain. Click on that and put the web address of the photo you want to post between the "img>web address

Croydon - love your emoticons!!!

Well, thank you.

Is there a way to make a "sticky note" type link in the forum? http://www.freewebs.com/westward242/index.htm

westward13, thanks for setting this up. You sound like a kindred spirit, I discovered one day I enjoyed running, my problem was that I was well over 50 before I found out! One way or another I spend some time every day on a bike as I ride to work and go out at weekends. I have two mountain bikes ( bought the latest one a couple of weeks ago ) 2 road bikes ( winter and summer) and a time trial bike. So I tend to enter the mileage in weekly lumps using the odo reading. I have to be careful as my youngest daughter uses one of the mountain bikes to keep me company when I do long runs. I'm training for the Hague Half Marathon ( Holland ) at the moment thats on 15th March but as the days get longer I'm starting to increase my cycling mileage by going home the long way as I have a two day mountain bike race at the end of March, followed then by a couple of duathlons in April afterall variety is the spice of life..