[Closed] so what is middle-aged?

Only problem I have with being middle aged is being closer to death 🙁

Every generation thinks they're different from the ones before them. Try telling a teenager you were the same as them once...

No one knows when they are middle aged as you dont know when you will die

say you go to 70 then 35 is middle aged so what is in between middle aged and old aged

If it's being woken up all night by your children and then they get up at 6am then I don't like bring middle aged !

Crap! but not as bad as it could be!

I just put a rear mud-guard on my Cotic.

And I'm wearing slippers....

There is an inverse relationship between age and how offensive you find the Daily Mail 👿

Its a state of mind...

+1 Mugboo, it's in your head, in your head, in your head, head, head.

For it's an attitude.

don simon, 44 going on 20!

5 years older than you are. Myself I am approaching middle age at 50 and my 75 yr old mother claims to be approaching late middle age

Middle aged is how others see you.

I'm 54 yet I still have the same 32" waist, I have a resting HR of 48, can road cycle 100 miles, ride my MTB faster down a hill than a bloke on a full DH rig, ski any black or skin up any mountain and apart from a couple of aches and sprains have no illness that I'm aware of. I think of myself as about 25 mentally as I think I'm open, interested and keen to learn about new things. I see blokes my age and can't believe how old they look and behave, it's as if most people aged 54 have accepted that they will slow down and get ill.

Yet I've seen a bit of life so inevitably I have some ideas on how I think things should be done; when I express these ideas people (my family) deride me as old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy. But I simply don't see myself as middle aged, for me that's the ultimate term of derision.

I think of myself as MV40 rather than middle aged.

Mugboo - Member
Its a state of mind...

So would you say you're middle aged or not?

Mugboo - Member
Its a state of mind...

So would you say you're middle aged or not?

Put it this way, I bought him a nice wool vest for his birthday.

I wouldn't say I am middle aged but that doesn't mean I am not 😉

You are reading this thread, therefore you are middle aged.

I remember, aged 17, listening to bowie, on a walkman the size of a brick, sing 'who wants to be alive when you're 25?'

You start losing your memory...

Walkmans were about the size of a couple of fag packets and although Bowie wrote it, Mott the Hoople recorded "All the Young Dudes".

Time for the bus pass, buddy.

If you need to sit down to put your socks on you're middle aged

ride my MTB faster down a hill than a bloke on a full DH rig

which bloke? sounds like bullshit to me

You're middle-aged when you have your first life changing medical event...

Walkmans were about the size of a couple of fag packets and although Bowie wrote it, Mott the Hoople recorded "All the Young Dudes".

Mott the Hoople doing a pretty cool Bowie impression. 😕

i think middleaged is mid 40's to late 50's.
so most of us saddo's on here are well in the middle aged group.
no matter howe fit you think you are, or how small your waist is..............just accept it........ 8)

Fair enough. Proves my point, though. It's my bus-pass year this year... 😯

I've already got a bus pass.
But then, I work for the bus company.

Fair enough. Proves my point, though. It's my bus-pass year this year...

😀

WTF has waist size got to do with being middle aged.....

Tbh I always imagined middle aged was 40. But as I am nearly 38 I'd imagine when I reach 40 I'll suddenly think middle aged is 50.

It's when you start asking 'when is middle aged'

It's when you ache for days after a good ride

It's when you are still hung over on Monday after a night out on Saturday

It's when your bladder becomes the size of a pea

It's when you start thinking about 'that blue pill'

It's when you look back over your life more than you look foreward

It's when you get angry about nothing in particular

It's when you catch sight of yourself in a mirror and can't believe what you see.

It's when you see an old bloke coming down the street, and when you get closer you realise it's one of your old school mates.

It's when the first icy winds of old age start to swirl around you and you start to shiver!

But enjoy it because you will never be that young again!! 😯

I am. Who cares!?

'Middle Age' can come at any age. It's when you start contemplating your navel and trying to justify to yourself (and anyone else who will listen) how 'in shape' you are, how fit you are, how much of a [i]rad dude[/i] you are for your age. Sound familiar!?! 8)

epicyclo - Member
You're middle-aged when you have your first life changing medical event...

+1. Brings the remaining time into focus.

@jj55 - I resemble those remarks. Ouch 🙁

Hmm nice thread. Yes what is middle-aged? Im 39 right now but will be 40 in just over 3wks time (eek!). Now Im having all the how the **** did that happen & wow I made it thats really rather impressive stuff (I do feel quite proud to be nearly 40! I think given my life for the last 40yrs its quite an achievement..)

Im fitter than Ive ever been, just over 71kg with a 31 inch waist & my HR is low 40's. Ive made enough money to now spend my time riding bikes & other assorted outdoor high-jinks. (Yes Im an evil capitilist dog! Burn me! 😈 )

But Im still bothered about being older.. Why? I guess its a number of things.. my body hurts more when I train hard (no big deal really but I notice it), my friends & Family look older & I think thats the worst part.. I guess at middle-age mortality is just something you are that little bit more aware of. Not your own but maybe others..

Is that it? I dont know, old man ramblings over - I need to get & my bike sorted for tomorrows Brass Monkeys!

One thing I have noticed is that the older I become time really does go much MUCH quicker!! My 40's went by in a flash, and now I'm halfway through my fifties and time appears to be speeding up even more. HELP! Where are the brakes, and are they disc or block?

Well I'm 43 or 44...

[i]It's when you start asking 'when is middle aged'[/i] Nope
[i]It's when you ache for days after a good ride[/i] Nope
[i]It's when you are still hung over on Monday after a night out on Saturday[/i] Nope
[i]It's when your bladder becomes the size of a pea[/i] Nope
[i]It's when you start thinking about 'that blue pill'[/i] Nope
[i]It's when you look back over your life more than you look foreward[/i] Nope
[i]It's when you get angry about nothing in particular[/i] Been doing this all my life.
[i]It's when you catch sight of yourself in a mirror and can't believe what you see.[/i] Nope
[i]It's when you see an old bloke coming down the street, and when you get closer you realise it's one of your old school mates.[/i] That's them who has got old, not me.
[i]It's when the first icy winds of old age start to swirl around you and you start to shiver![/i] Nope

Yay, I'm still young!

jj55 dont brake too hard or youll go over the handlebars 😀

gordimhor ........... that hurts more as well!!!!!!!

Don't read this if you're easily depressed 🙂

If you're 40, you have probably got only 5-6 years before you run into some problem.

At 45 I reckon I was as fit as I'd ever been, 6 pack etc, then wham, had a medical problem, and that was it. No amount of training or exercise would regain the lost ground. This seems to be the experience of most of my age group, something hits in the 40-50s. Despite keeping as fit as possible, having a reasonably healthy lifestyle, I have had 3 major health problems since.

It's not the end of the world, but then you'll soon find you have to train hard to stay as crap as you were the year before, but you can't train too hard because you then get other injuries. The main thing is to keep going at it, but with the realisation you're mortal. 🙂

So make the most of the next few years. You won't ever be able to push yourself so hard again, and if you have some grand adventure planned, do it now.

Sorry if that sounds depressing. I just wish I had been warned about this when I was young. I didn't get to cycle to the South Pole, and now never will.

Still there is the short version of Iditabike... 🙂

Middle aged ? Meh.
I'm 54, but enjoying life like a 30 year old. I still don't believe our first child got married last summer.
Luckily my body keeps doing it's bit but I do dread a serious injury/illness. Getting back up could be tough.

I found yesterday that carrying a little 11-month old kid around town and sticking him in your trolley at Tesco really does result in more attractive women coming up and talking to you. I didn't let on he was my grandson though. 🙂

Today, booking some cinema tickets for tonight, I find I am eligible for the "senior" rate as well, saving a couple of quid.

Check out today's edition of The Times, there is a multi-page article about the over-50's [s]darn that Carol Vorderman[/s].

I've embraced being over-50 but, then again, I ride not 'train'. My body works fine courtesy of glucosamine sulphate!

As an aside, I also quite enjoy a slightly eccentric demeanour. Folk no doubt say 'silly old bat'. 🙄

At the end of the day, it's down to you. It's a number, that's all.

gosh, i was drunk last night. completely forgotten i had posted this. good thread though.

it was def bowie, not a trick of my mind, it was the 1974 david live album. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Live i can even tell you exactly where i was but thats too boring.

a huge inspiration for me was the first time i did the 3 peaks in my 40th year. i was nailed when i finished, and in the results saw that a 70 year old had beat me by 10 minutes. that is truly fantastic.

also in the last issue of surfers journal an article on a guy called bob holland and some photos of him charging.. on a shortboard. he's 81.

'keep on truckin' as the old t-shirts once said.

43 at the moment, staring down the barrel of 44 - 😯

Last year for my birthday i rode the C2C Workington to Sunderland route in a day, great sense of achievement even though it knacked me out. OK, so some of you are a lot faster/stronger/more awesome but it was a pinnacle for me, 20yrs ago i'd never have been able to do it.

I notice i'm taking longer to recover after exhertion though & that hangovers are really, really something to be avoided!

Looking at doing another C2C this year, hopefully the Walney to Whitby route.

middle age : who cares, when yer having fun mtb'ing 😉 im a grandma and mtb'ing lol..grandma rides the fells.... so at age 44 what do i do wen i reach the age of 50 ? do i get into road biking or playing bowls (lol)....
each 10th anniverary of your age rings a bell in ya head to tell you to change your sport does it ??? hahaha ... im going to carry on mtb'ing and the odd bouldering/climbing as long as i feel fit....

I turned 39 last week. Tick tock tick tock.

Someone once told me that "middle aged" is when you get your second childhood. That must mean I'm not middle aged, as I'm still enjoying my first one.

You're middle-aged when you have your first life changing medical event...

Not having that, I had and beat cancer twice by the age of 23, so unless I die in the next 2 years, that definatly not a good gauge.

I `m 40 in couple months time. And more than happy to say its middle age ... but deff not old age ...

Old age always seems to get reclassified the older we get.
In your teens, 25 was old ..
In your 20 `s it was 40

Now I put the figure at 55

45 this summer and deffo not close to a middle aged attitude or mentality.

I thought starting drunken threads on STW was the gold standard of middle aged behaviour! so for me, must've been mid 30's! yikes!

55 is old says lagerfanny 😯

I was 55 last birthday................ omg I'm old, quick I need a Harley Davidson, hair dye and an inappropriately young girlfriend.

Nah, over 60 is old 😆 . I think middle age passed me by. I guess statistically speaking middle age should be 40-50 but never considered I was middle-aged when in my forties and now I'm too old unless I live to be 106 😉

S'funny, I remember thinking back in my late 30s that stuff took longer to heal as I got older but it's no worse now - all down to attitude I reckon.

Whenever I get pissed at being 39 I think about all the stuff I know, have learned, have experienced, all the winters I've seen, all of the things that have changed in the landscapes I live in and you know what? I love being in the place I am and I'll love being another day wiser tomorrow. Youth is great but experience is better in a straight fight!

Actually I can't remember if I'm 38 or 39 😯

Life expetency in the UK is currently 80, so assuming middle age is the middle third of your life, it starts at 26.5 and ends at 53. That depressingly makes me middle age at 29.

Oh well.

When you reach middle age it is time to contemplate life that you have lived so far by cultivating your mind. i.e. start letting go by living a simple life and you will see the different.

🙂

BNANA, that woolly vest is lovely, needs some merino wool undies to go with it though..

Simon, NO

I agree with MuddyDwarf, at about 42 or 43 I found I could still do most of the things I always did but the recovery time started to go up,

I think being middle aged is when you can afford the really fast car but are too sensible to drive it too fast.

Mugboo - Member

Simon, NO

Me neither, but I'm still in my thirties..............for a few more months 😉

Me - I'm late middle aged I guess at 59. According to mamadirt I'll suddenly get old in 5 months time. Buss pass territory. Really?

Nah, you won't deka. Just pedal faster, it'll never catch ya! 8)

I'm middle-aged,50 later this year. Doesn't matter if you're a fat,balding duffer,or you've still got a full head of hair and a 32" waist. We're all going to wake up dead one day. Enjoy it.

At 40 you are there. No questions. The more you protest that you are 50 some thing and can still ride a bike, pull the girls and stay up all night the more middle aged you are. Sorry chaps but if you must divide our lives into youth, middle age and old then by 40 you are in the middle bit. I am 47 and feel it compared with 17. Hopefully I am less decrepit know than I will be at 70

i concur with a previous poster, if you get ill, have an op etc, it really takes it out of you and i found it difficult to get back to previous weight and fitness after a 3 month layoff from exercise due to op - being 39 has something to do with that. A more serious knee op at 27 took 6-7 months to recover from but came back to be fitter, trimmer etc. Have to work twice as hard now to maintain a reasonable level of fitness

You realise you may have actually overshot middle age when you start getting a prize at races for being the oldest rider...

I'm 68, still ride at least 3 times a week---do most everything else I always did---somewhat slower, less frequently, but none-the-less, I figure that since I feel somewhat middle aged, l should live to be at least 136.