Why older women shouldn't cycle

[PamNY]

If one of my birding friends asks "Did you find your glove?" I'm not going to tell the truth.

I guess saying "Oh, I finally realized where I dropped it" isn't exactly a lie.

[bjoyful]

Thank you so much for starting what turned our to be a very humorous look at ourselves! I am recovering from a total knee replacement and looking for some comments relating to recovery time and getting back on the bike, etc. but the humor was very much appreciated!!

[Bruised&Happy]

Hey, I saw a glove on the road the other day! Must have been one of us that "dropped" it??

[Norse]

Ah, the failing attention capabilities of the middle-age brain. I am well acquainted with this problem, and it has nothing to do with childbirth or gender. I only wish the What-Am-I-Doing-Here? Paranoi did not strike me so frequently when I go down to the basement or garage with firm purpose, and arrive completely clueless as to why I am standing down there and the only way I can remember is to march back up the stairs and stand where I was when the bright idea to go downstairs occurred to me. Or there was the day I showed up for a ride with very different colored gloves (at least they were for different hands); or the 50-mile ride I showed up for with nary a single water bottle, or .... This is a fascinating article that goes into detail on our "affliction": http://www.oprah.com/health/Midlife-...-Remember-More

[badger]

once I came to work and realized a while later I wasn't wearing a bra!

[badgercat]

I've done something comparably silly to almost everything in this thread, and I'm 24. I guess there's no hope for my future?

[malkin]

I've done something comparably silly to almost everything in this thread, and I'm 24. I guess there's no hope for my future?

You'll be well prepared for it!

[cmafit]

So thankful I found this group! You are all wonderful and I thank you for the smiles you have put on my face today....and for reminding me I'm not the only one that does "that"

[Norse]

once I came to work and realized a while later I wasn't wearing a bra!

OMG Badger that is too darned funny! I am surprised I have not done that seeing how one of the first things I do when I get home at night is to whip off the bra and I never wear one around the house on weekends. Of course though, hopefully I would take one last look in the mirror and notice the horribly drooping headlights under my work clothes.

[sundial]

once I came to work and realized a while later I wasn't wearing a bra!

Oh my gosh, that is tooo funny!! LOL!!

I once loaded my bike, drove to the destination, unloaded the bike, got on to go and had the wrong shoes on. I rode 20 miles trying to stay on the SPD pedals.

[ClockworkOrange]

At least reading all your funny stories it has made me realise I am quite normal but perhaps the thread should be changed from Why older women shouldn't cycle to Why older women shouldn't get out of bed!

Clock

[Jiffer]

After a friend of mine crashed on her bike, went unconscious and took a trip to the hospital in an ambulance (she was alright) ... her mother tells her, "Jenny! A woman your age shouldn't be riding her bicycle!"

That famous line has come up many times throughout our cycling adventures. We quite enjoy saying it.

[Trekhawk]

After a friend of mine crashed on her bike, went unconscious and took a trip to the hospital in an ambulance (she was alright) ... her mother tells her, "Jenny! A woman your age shouldn't be riding her bicycle!"

That famous line has come up many times throughout our cycling adventures. We quite enjoy saying it.

Snort!