This is my first post here - I was sent over by ZenLC from the bikejournal site. Sure hope to see some of you over there!

I wish I'd have found this site last year. I started riding in Sept/03, and I was losing weight pretty quickly using LC. I was told that my cycling would really suffer if I kept doing LC, and I did think I was losing some finishing power, so I quit. Well, in 2004 I cycled over 5000 miles, some of them pretty tough miles, and I never lost a single pound. Yup, finished 2004 at the same weight I was at the beginning of 2004. (Imagine where I'd be had I not been cycling!)

I've started racing a little this year, and still have over 20lbs to lose. I'm going to do it LC this year, and I'm going to get this last bunch of weight off. (Maybe I'll be able to be a real climber yet!) Sure is great to see that there's some LC cyclists around!!