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07-13-09, 02:01 PM
Hello, my name is Aaron and currently I am living in Belmopan, Belize. I started riding about 5 years ago when my truck broke down and it was easier and cheaper for me to get a bike rather than fixing my truck at the time. I started out on a mountain bike, a Fuji and I loved it… But then I got the erg to pick up a road bike while I was living in the DC area and I picked up a Dawes, it wasn’t the greatest bike ever but it got me around and into these whole biking phenomena… Now, I have moved to Belmopan Belize because my wife is a diplomat and this is where we got assigned and cycling seems to be rather big here so I decided to get a bit more serious. So I just built a new road bike, it’s a Motobecane frame with a carbon fork and handlebars, and mostly Shimano parts that weighs about 7150 grams! If you can’t tell I’m really excited about this, especially since I built it myself and saved a TON of money, now I have some time to get a few miles on it before my triathlon that’s here at the end of August, and then it’s on to a road race. Now competition is in my blood there is no denying that, I wrestled my whole life and I just love to compete no matter what the sport is, for instance just when I got done with wrestling in college I randomly decided that I wanted to run a marathon, so I did and I don’t think that I did too bad. I finished in the top twenty in my age group and finished it in just over four hours… Now, I know that I’m not fast enough to jump into some serious races, that I’ve seen, but the competition that is here isn’t that fast either; so I figured that this would be a perfect place for me to get started. … I’m always looking for training tips, advice, anything that can help me improve and expand my knowledge about this sport…