Thread: Hypothetical question: How long to go from overweight slob to Cat 5 racer?
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Originally Posted by gregf83
Sure it's doable. I dropped close to 30lbs when I started riding in 2008 at the age of 48 and started racing in the spring of 2009. Won my age group in my first local masters race. I started riding in mid may that year and rode about 7,500km.

Here's my weight loss chart that year:
I love it! Charting from the get-go. That's the way to do it. More data is good.
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