SLIPPING on the lycra in middle age has given Margaret Goodwin a new life. The Epping woman put on her training wheels and learnt to ride only in her late 40s and is still going strong a decade later.
The two people who encouraged her to start have given up while Ms Goodwin (pictured) is about to embark on her 10th RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride. Now 58, Ms Goodwin is a youngster compared with the ride’s oldest cyclists, usually in their 80s.
“On my first ride I got off and walked up the first hill until an old lady, about 70, told me to put it in the lowest gear. I thought if she can do it, so can I,” she said.
Ms Goodwin, who has ridden in the Great Western Australian Bike Ride and Great Tasmanian Bike Ride, is planning a cycling tour through France.
She rides 28 kilometres to work in Collingwood to keep fit for the nine-day, 591 kilometre ride through Gippsland, starting November 24.
