45 and overall in better shape than I’ve ever been. Not quite as fast as I used to be, but a good chunk more stamina.
I ride plenty, do a weekly strength and conditioning class and try and stretch every day, plus a bit of climbing and work is a mix of desk and very physical. I’m lucky in that I’m naturally skinny, and don’t like drinking much, so I’m the same weight as I was when I was 21. Being a lightweight also means I crash a bit better than some of the big lads.
Wrists suffer a bit after too much time on the gravel bike and I need to be a bit careful about my lower back - tight hamstrings are the killer coupled with a couple of decades of awkward heavy lifting.
I am 64 and have few of the problems others mention. I need a good mattress to avoid a stiff back in the mornings but thats it. I usually do a 4 hr ride at the weekend. I still work fitting kitchens, and I think thats part of it, regular activity which I get at work.
Im 43. I'm feeling good about my health. The only perstent niggles are piles then a right knee ache and an occasional radge back spasm. Knee and back issues are related to school age rugby. *uck knows how I ended up with bum grapes.
regular activity which I get at work
My dad will be 81 this year and he still works (self employed, selling parts and sundries to car garages, so out and about and active). He is generally happy and fit enough to play footie with his grandkids - not problem free for sure, but all manageable. I'm fairly sure this is all down to his continuing levels of activity and not being too sedentary.
53 here, lots of aches and pains, coming up to 5th anniversary of prostate cancer surgery, recently diagnosed with CAD, riding lots of road and gravel and sMTB on order !
At 46 I've picked up a few scrapes and aside old injuries, less hair I feel tip top.
Most of my worst injuries were at a fairly young age so actually I probably feel better now. Aside toothache.
I know some that have been moaning for years about how old they feel, not sure if it's in the head or in the body of both
50 this year, broken bones in double figures (including Vertebrae, base of skull, cheek, heel, wrists and shoulder) in a number of daft activities. I do need daily prescription anti-inflams, but have for over 10 years due to alkolysing spondylitis. I don't sleep well without them. I do have to keep active or I stiffen up, but definately ache less than mid 30's. Staying active and taking my pills (as directed both by doctor and doctor wife). I get no sympathy at home from doctor wife or teenage kids either.
I’m lucky in that I’m naturally skinny, and don’t like drinking much, so I’m the same weight as I was when I was 21.
Not necessarily a benefit. Some skinny people are fragile as hell. Some fat people are tough as nails just slower on the climbs.
Corr-Blimey you lot of old cronks 🤪
Glad to read that despite badly breaking my foot a few years back windsurfing (all the bones across it) and suffering with an inherent wobbly acid reflux, and recent stomach hernia, I’m fairly and happily fit at 54. Did used to suffer a lower back pain when riding, but since that pursuit has been tossed to one side in favour of trail running my back is absolutely fine..
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45 mostly OK, but always have 1 or 2 injuries a year that take ****ing ages to heal.
Previous 2 years its been sprained and a broken wrist. both sides (at different times), still give me a wee bit of gip.
This year started with a ridiculously sore ankle skiing in feb that didn't really go away until May, which then seemed to morph into planar fasciitis which has only now started to subside.
Then last weekend, I rolled my dodgy right ankle again (there really bugger all holding my foot into my leg now except skin and hope), but whilst falling have managed to tweak something in the left knee (never given me problems before) which doesn't now want to fully bend or straighten.
FFS!
50 years old. Hand/arm numbness is something I'm familiar with. Doctors are currently investigating my thyroid activity (suspected hypothyroidism) although I have none of the other usual symptoms.
Equally, I am reviewing my past history of impacts with immovable objects and wondering if it is just going to be like this from now on. I have to sleep on my back with no pillow to have feeling in my hands in the morning. The pillow thing is a big deal. I have a long standing carpal tunnel susceptibility and a recurring ganglion cyst that together masked the general numbness symptoms getting worse but now I've got a fairly good bead on there being two/three concurrent problems with not entirely unrelated symptoms. Peripheral neuropathy, they say (which means numb hands).
Just been on a major DIY spree and that has aggravated things to a much worse level than steady state so it is a focus concern at the moment and may settle.
Purposely did a gentle ~73min turbo ride around midday, having had a rest day yesterday, thinking I'd have lunch and then go and have a gentle effort outdoor ride on the fatbike (fitting 29x2.35" front and 26x4" for the first time in ages, probably this year) for a couple of hours...
Two hours or so later, I'm still sat at home feeling absolutely drained, mentally more than physically. Probably not helped by randomly waking at 0430ish after ~6 hours sleep. Haven't even swapped wheels/tyres yet and the Friday afternoon rush hour has begun. :/