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@El_Diablo
hmm Blackbird Hill is akin to the A40 fr trafficitous! ffs!!! now you could just get up Salmon Street and freewheel down to Kingsbury....
One of the Prime Coaching peeps- Brian Wright, runs a women's session at Hillngdon circuit on a Friday @ 2, that would allow you to wobble round in safety on a non traffic road. If you can get there it'd be a help to you, 2pm is usually a working time for most peeps though...
There are the Thursday 18.30 kick off sessions at Hillngdon too, (get there before then,) sessions too, its for an hour and you'd be ok.
Now a regular female rider- Mad Mel is partially deaf, as is another female colleague, and I'd want to be sure you can hear what's around you, otherwise its dangerous for you and A N Others- its called spacial awareness. Please don't think for one nano second I'm trying to put you down, but your safety on the roads IS paramount.
I just think Blackbird Hill during rush hour etc isn't a good place to start, and I can't think of anywhere suitable nearby. From memory there's a park in Wembley which may be ok for riding, otherwise its a car ride out to eg Hillingdon circuit- alongside the Hayes by-pass, and futher out there's Black Park in Iver, off road but gravel paths etc.
You need help for sure, but the right help to build up fitness and skills. All do-able. And I salute you for puttng yourself forward on here.
Sometimes you just have to get on a bike and do it in short steady steps- ride to A and back, ride to B and back, etc. Canal towpath's are nice a quiet.
I'd like to help, but its a question of it being effective, and my time is very limited, I was a BC Coach but chose to stop, some know that, and some have guessed that anyway.