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the professional amateur · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Gloucestershire

I currently live in the Forest of Dean, a great location for mountain bikers and roadies alike. I go east into Gloucestershire for flat routes, and west into south or mid-wales for the hills. I have a cycle track at the bottom of my street that leads into the Forest. I used to be very active in cyclosportives but now that I have family committments I have turned my attention to 10 and 25 TTs (less time required for training and competing). I work as a fitness consultant with a gymnstics facility and coach cyclists as a hobby - I have a degree in sports science and completed the ABCC theory last year. However, after a life-time following the professional road scene my passion for the sport wavered when Landis tested positive and I grew tired (and embarrassed) with the 'D' issue (no cycling forum would be complete without the mention of doping would it). In fact, when that news broke, I lost patience and cancelled all subscriptions to the related magazines and eurosport! Despite this, cycling is in the blood and in recent months I have found my passion returned. No longer inspired by the pros, I now take my greatest inspiration from all those taking part in amateur events whilst balancing normal life issues. I've seen and met some amazing people on these occasions. I would like to use this forum to open a dialogue with other coaches, so I hope they'll make full use of it.

admin

welcome to the forum and I hope it serves your purpose - see you have already posted.

Congratulations on being the first!

Malcolm

Andy Harrison · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 2 Location: london

Hello, i'm Andy i'm currently 29 years old and have am a mature student. I'm doing a sports science degree with an exercise and fitness pathway so i'm doing the geeky stuff like biomechanics and physiology and i'm loving it.
i've been a swimming/athletics and triathlon coach for a while now and thought that doing the ABCC course would add a string to my bow because now i'm the cycle co-ordinator for my triathlon club.
I imagine that most "proper" cyclists look down at beginner triathletes due to their poor handing and group riding skills. While this is true in most clubs. I am working quite hard to remedy this.. Once i've established a safe training environment i can then start doing some "real" coaching.
My cycling background goes back to the early nineties when i raced MTB's as a junior then after a break i moved into bmx (tricks, halfpipe not racing) and then took up triathlon (I swam at a local level before MTB'ing) about five years ago i've since done time trials cyclo-cross, mtb and adventure racing on top of my long distance triathlon stuff.
Righto then that's my biog. I'm off out on my bike. see you later. Cool

Mark Gorman · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Cornwall

I am middle aged, but still racing to a reasonable standard, in the south west. I have been coaching for about a year. I am currently advising 4 riders, all within my own club. My predominent area of interest is time trialling, but am gaining more knowledge on long distance and endurance events.

In a previous incarnation, I spent 30 years as a competitive runner.