The return of: Over 50 show of hands

[PamNY]

I'm 59. Planning to start the "over 60" thread in October.

[Trek420]

Why not start it now? That was it's already there for you to join.

[kelownagirl]

Me me me! I can actually join this thread now!

[Trek420]

Me me me! I can actually join this thread now!

Yay! Welcome to the new 30

[shootingstar]

Now, careful. We are becoming abit elitist..in our advancing age??

Trek, you're supposed to say instead crossing the half century mark! Now that is survivor talk!

I'm over the line..at 51. This sounds radical. Crossing boundaries into new territory.
Rediscovered cycling and started cycling regularily at 32.

[OakLeaf]

Yeah ... I have to say, why?

I'm posting because you already know I belong here and I don't want to seem like I'm trying to pretend to newer TE'rs that I'm younger than I am. I am where I am. I did set a couple of goals before the birthday, and more than anything else, that made it quite clear that the birthday was going to happen whether I trained for it or not - other things, not so much.

50, learned to ride on the late side (7 maybe?) because my uncle taught me, not my parents. Rode all the way through the rule that says you're never 29 (not racing the whole time, just the few years surrounding that date) and a couple of years after. Burned out, didn't ride at all for 10 years.

Got a little hybrid in 2003 for <3 mile errands. Thought I'd forgotten how to ride a bike. Not-quite-intentionally wound up on a demo road bike for three days in 2006. Been back ever since.

[Bike Chick]

51 here.....started riding at 46.

[Catrin]

I am at the half century mark I actually never thought that it would feel so good!

I just learned how to ride a bike for the first time in my life in December, 2009. Two months after my 50th birthday and I certainly never thought that I would be able to do 50 mile rides by the end of July!

Cycling has become my fountain of youth - both in health and in outlook. I have lost a great deal of weight, my live now consists more than just working too much, and I have found that it reconnects me to the world around me after spending all day in my data modeling work-a-day world.

Now I just need to figure out how to unleash my inner hill-climbing animal

[five one]

I'm 58. Although I'd always ridden a bike as a child and through college, I didn't really begin riding in earnest until I was nearly 50. One of the best things I ever did for myself.