44 when i started nearly 3 years ago, our local club has plent of guys in thier 50s and a couple over 60 .
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what age do you give up cycling ?
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I was told that if you are old, and break something, you get a lower priority in the NHS compared to a younger person. A form of Triage maybe?
I'd hate to find out that is true the hard way.
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you get a lower priority in the NHS compared to a younger person
I went to see if I could get a replacement finger joint yesterday and was told I was too young...
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Can't see that being the case in anything other than a major incident.
Can you imagine: 10 patients arrive in ambulances and private vehicles at A&E and the only criteria is age! Broken finger of a 10 year old is seen to before broken hip and leg of a 60 year old in massive pain on the guerney.PS - Why do you want a replacement joint? I'm having the same issue with Wiggle as they don't seem to sell jockey wheels for XT reat mech's
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My dad is 66 in July and still hoons it around Brechfa every weekend. Don't think there's a cap to an age to stop riding. I'd like to think that I could still ride after I stop driving but don't really want to think about giving up to be honest
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Why do you want a replacement joint?
dislocated middle left finger 5 years ago, now limited movement
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There was a 72 year old doing an ironman tri-athlon on tv last wk and he was'nt last!
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take the metalwork out simon it can't be helping.
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Simon - healing of all sorts takes longer the older you get. Its just the nature of the beast.
Being fit will reduce this effect but it remains true - as does decreasing muscle strength with age
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healing of all sorts takes longer the older you get
or is it just that's what people expect ?
take the metalwork out simon it can't be helping.
done that thanks:
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38 next weekend haven't been out for months, just feel run down and shagged the whole time....
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just feel run down and shagged the whole time....
that's not age!
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No simon. Its is a proven physiological fact. As your body ages its repair mechanisms become less efficient.
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shagged all the time
that's unlikely to be age but a culimination of factors.
Run a self diagnostic and see what your likely isses are, namely: work, stress, sleep patterns, food and liquid intake, weight, expectation and so on.I'm struggling with some darn cold or somemsuch which has been hanging about for 10 days now.
This matters as the older you get, the longer it seems to both recover ones fitness but also improve upon fitness levels. 2 weeks out is going to more akin to 1 month's step backwards as far as my own training is concerned at a guess. Woe is me!
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As your body ages its repair mechanisms become less efficient.
when ? By how much ? Why haven't I noticed it yet ?
This matters as the older you get, the longer it seems to both recover ones fitness
people keep saying this like a mantra "Every day, in every way, I'm becoming a clapped out old hasbeen". What of positive attitude ? I'm much fitter than I was when I was 30 and get ill less too, my joints work just the same and I can still bite my own toenails (should I choose to)
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"Why haven't I noticed it yet ?"
because your brain deteriorates at the same rate and you thus can't remember healing any faster in the past...
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Was just re-reading this thread and found it very amusing. However it did cross my mind that if the original poster is suddenly finding it much harder work to ride, he ought to get a medical check up. Seriously. My mum started to find stuff was more and more difficult and put it down to aging, but it turned out all her arterys were blocking up in her neck and she had to have an urgent operation to clear them (heavy smoker). There are other medical things that can cause you to start feeling worn out and tired as well, that could be serious. Might be worth getting it checked. If my mum had not gone to docs over something else, she would have had a stroke or died.
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Bernie you've gone quiet, were you hoping we would say it's alright to stop now
I've got a newly discovered heart problem (but I don't like to talk about it more than ten times per thread)
And that's not going to slow me down, off out in a mo infact.
Rather go quick with a heart attack on the bike than rolling round the living room floor with pizza in one hand and the remote in the other.
50 in a weeks time, and I'm making loose plans right up to 70.Posted 2 years ago # -
because your brain deteriorates at the same rate and you thus can't remember healing any faster in the past...
actually, you're right, I recall faceplanting on Chapel Gate in 2000 on a Sunday and by Wednesday the scab had fallen off, but now sometimes it takes a whole 5 days
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Simon, you must be a marvel of modern science!
I envy you.
I've noticed a deteriation in my physical shape, fitness levels, suppleness in my joints (they most defiantely ache in wet weather) and my ability to recover as the years go by.
I can't do the physical things I could manage even going back 10 years mores the pity.Posted 2 years ago # -
there was a great letter in the CTC magazine a while back from a man who rode 80 miles to celebrate his 80th birthday. He just narrowly missed his 8hr target due to a long cake stop. I was inspired!
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Simon, you must be a marvel of modern science!
or perhaps I'm just not brainwashed into anticipating premature decay ? Instead I've found myself getting fitter, healthier, needing less sleep and happier :o)
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Rep: A ski pass ?
Me: Yeh, at my age I get a bit knackered if I have to walk back up the slopes all day carrying my board !!Too right Woody!!
At 52 I am often the oldest boarder on the slopes, but thanks to the MTB certainly not the slowest or least fit.
cheers.Off to the Alps soon :))))
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I'm usually the oldest soloist at 24 hour races, almost certainly the oldest on a single speed. (Brain deterioration - can't work out gears)
I have qualified for this years World Solo 24 hour Championship in Oz so I may have to learn how to use gears to have a chance
Generally speaking I don't suffer much from aches and pains, even after long rides, except when I have been off the bike for a period, eg travel, injury. I think it's important to ride conservatively when you age because injuries keep you off the bike much longer (or is that an excuse for me being a woose?)
So to anyone under retirement age, age is no excuse - get on yer bike and stop moaning
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Actually gave up at 18 due to back injury but back after 6yrs and again at 26 pelvic fracture for 3yrs...
Give up? never but sometimes we have to stop for a while!
Hats to older ppl hammering away on 24hr solos!
You're old when you're 110yrs old.
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I can still bite my own toenails (should I choose to)
No, sorry, you don't get out of that one so easily. Only way you know that for certain is a) you thought about it in the first place and b) you tried the experiment at least once. May not have bitten them but at the very least an attempted mouthing.
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clarkpm4242
Lucky git, I still haven't booked anything yet and I've just found out I've been accepted for S.O.R.T (Special Ops Response Team)training right in the middle of my holidays. They must need someone to use as ballast Posted 2 years ago # -
you tried the experiment at least once. May not have bitten them but at the very least an attempted mouthing.
I'm doing it now - next question ?
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I have an unused batch of 72 virgins to bite my toenails. Apparently, their intended master failed to disintegrate...
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One day, somewhere in the future, on a bleak moorland singletrack, a group of young riders will have paused to discuss this topic. As they warily contemplate their future and all the inevitable consequences of mortality, a familiar clatter and scuff of wheels will cause them to look back up the trail which they have just warily descended.
A bike will sweep into view, ridden exuberantly but tidily by a grinning skeleton. As the skeleton sweeps through their midst he will nod, courteously, and with a knowing but manic skull grin he will utter but one word...
'Never'
and he'll vanish from the moor onto the perfect trails known only by the spirits.
That'll be me.Posted 2 years ago # -
56 here;
On Saturday I was out for 5.1/2hrs on the bike.
Sunday = rest & shopping with `er indoors.
Monday = 4hrs on the bike + 3/4hr swim in the evening.
Tues = 1.1/2hr yoga
Today(Wed) = 3hrs hill walking/hunting new trails & finding
Thurs = off to local trail for a few hrs
Fri = still to decide
Sat = more shopping, maybe new camera
Sun/Mon/Tues/Wed = commuting by bike to work.Give up?......never
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Epicyclo: How old did you say you were?
How does one "qualify" for the solo Worlds?Virgins, you say? They're pretty thin on the ground here - (a reverse pun me thinks). Will a SAE suffice? Please send sample for testing.
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Epicyclo: How old did you say you were?
How does one "qualify" for the solo Worlds?Virgins, you say? They're pretty thin on the ground here - (a reverse pun me thinks). Will a SAE suffice? Please send sample for testing.
Firstly, sorry about the virgins. I decided to cure them all of that condition and to hell with my toenails.Age - mid 60s
Solo Worlds - You qualify by doing the qualifying races and getting a good result. In my case I did some endurance races in Oz last year and did well in age class, plus they looked at my 'Puffer solo results. I usually end up about 2/3 way down the solo class, but that's against all ages. I think that I got my results with a single speed helped my case
The Worlds has age classifications - except unfortunately in the SS class.
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Nowt to be impressed about (unless it's the virgins) - it's simply a matter of not stopping when you think you're about to die
I'm thinking of doing that one. Looks interesting.
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