Anybody here from Essex?

68 to be exact and as I am 47 I doubt I'll be in your road race!!! Got a baby of 16 months so time for cycling is limited these days and in great need of shedding the added winter pounds!

Well I'm 43 and there's plenty of people older than me who race in the eastern road race league. In fact in my last race of last year, there was a chap from Cambridge who was 58 and came 18th! I emailed his club and told them I thought he was the "Mr Miyagi" of racing!

You'll soon loose weight banging out that sort of milage every week. It will just drop off, plus think of the fuel you will save, that will be a few hundred quid!

Good luck to you, I think it's spot on. If you see a big fooker with all the roadie gear on, riding a silver langster, which for my sins has been "hipstered/ slaved up" on the A1060 (I'm from Bishops Stortford) shout some abuse at me!