I went for my first ride today (2hrs) on a hard dirt path and got my first experience of stall speed. Quite a surprise.
Luckily there was a soft grassy verge because I fell over a few times at low speed with some slippage.
Very exhilarating though and enough progress to see the promise of better times.
By the way, it was very tricky trying to extricate myself from that frame laying sideways on the ground.
The middle of a week day so the absence of onlookers provided some relief.
I clearly have a very long way to go. It would be nice to eventually be able to turn a corner.....