Here's a cool thing to do: On your birthday, ride your age! Gives you something to work towards. Impresses the heck out of your friends!

In a few short months, I'll be 50. Yikes! I've been riding for almost 15 years. I mix up riding & weight lifting. Maybe once a week I'll go for a 45 minute jog, just to work the hamstrings. In the gym, I'll do mainly full body weight lifting workouts during the prime riding season and then go to a split weight lifting workout in the winter to concentrate on legs more.

I ride before work because the traffic is lighter and it sets my mood for the day - around 15-20 miles maybe 2-3 times during the week. On weekends, I do my longer rides.

I rarely ride with a club, but I keep saying that I'm going to start. I like my alone time on the bike. I call it my "brain dump" - I can dump all the garbage that accumulates up there & get "the committee" to be quiet for awhile!