"over 40"...show of hands?

[Mr. Bloom]

Check this out following my completion of the Ride Across Indiana two years ago. I completed 5% of my lifetime miles that day and finished in the top 10% at the age of 45...A similar aged friend finished 13th for the second year in a row...

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...hlight=average

[malkin]

Hey!

That looks like the scatter from my master's thesis except that I only had about 30 subjects!

My thesis was about the duration of breastfeeding in infancy and speech articulation at age 3 (or was it 4?).

Since neither of these seem to mean anything, maybe we should study duration of breastfeeding and cycling. Or accuracy of speech articulation and cycling.

Think we could get a grant?

[Mr. Bloom]

I was adopted and therefore not breast fed...and I still finished RaIN! Dies that help form a hypothesis?

And, my scatter did prove something...age doesn't matter!

[malkin]

+1 for your new name Mr Bloom!


Age doesn't matter?
Tell that to my joints!

[Crankin]

Ha, to the breast feeding correlation. Yes, I was the evil one who didn't breast feed. No correlation to cycling ability in this family. One kid was #5 junior racer in the US 2 years in a row and the other is quite a competent cyclist after starting at age 27...
Seriously, I don't feel old in many ways at age 56. I know I'm in better shape than 95% of people my age. But still, I need a lot more recovery, babying, and attention to many parts of my body that I could abuse when I was younger. And my speed is not what it was 2 years ago. If I train more, harder, etc., then I just open myself up to more injury and illness. The goal is to keep riding and be healthy until I keel over.

[runningcyclist]

Hi everyone, space for a foreigner here?

I'm from the UK and took up cycling as a complete beginniner 5 years ago when I was 42. Not made much progress in that time as I 'parked' the bike for a few years because I was too scared to go out on the road.

Finally started commuting to work about 18 months ago and am loving cycling, even during the winter .

[ShubieGA]

52 here - and returning to cycling after a 8 month break. It's been too long. I missed it!

[Marionette]

Finally started commuting to work about 18 months ago and am loving cycling, even during the winter .

Now that's brave! Living in southern California I rarely have to put up with wet streets, but they scare me because it's so easy to slip and crash.

[Rebecca19804]

Hi everyone, space for a foreigner here?

I'm from the UK and took up cycling as a complete beginniner 5 years ago when I was 42. Not made much progress in that time as I 'parked' the bike for a few years because I was too scared to go out on the road.

Finally started commuting to work about 18 months ago and am loving cycling, even during the winter .

A quasi-foreigner here!

I'm 42, took up cycling exactly a year ago as a complete beginner. I too commute in London rain or shine... and even, as last winter, in snow and ice. I was very anxious about going out on the roads. A two-hour one-on-one training session with Cycle Training UK kick-started me, giving me the confidence and 'tools' to get started.

Just leaving for work now in a soft summer rainstorm - accompanied by a 22-year-old university student doing a thesis paper on 'Cycling in London' - he gets to follow me for 10 miles with a video camera!