"over 40"...show of hands?

[shootingstar]

48 - how'd this thread get revived?

We must have poor memory --seems like this age topic comes up under different 'guises.

49. Got back to cycling regularily when I was nearly 32 and bought my own bike then.

Cycling is like my security/fitness security blanket...and it's also my "car"..haven't lived a home with a car..uh, since I was 21.

[NadiaMac]

Over 40 here as well. Started riding regularly two years ago after a 55 pound weight loss and serious foot surgery. I am now in the best shape of my life

[redranger]

41 here and just getting started!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have to say that at age 54 now, I like the "Over 50" TE thread way better.
This one makes it seem as though women in their 40's are 'elderly' in some way!


There are so MANY of us here that are over 40- it's just not unusual, if you ask me.

[bambu101]

54 rocks!!!!!!

I am 54, and in much better shape than I was at 40

[Zen]

Lisa, I've been avoiding this thread for the same reason


It's not about how old you grow, it's about how you grow old

[shootingstar]

This is the over 50 thread:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=7782

methinks there's someone on TE who is over 60..where are you??

Hey, great photo Zen.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

This is the over 50 thread:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=7782

methinks there's someone on TE who is over 60..where are you??

If you read the over 50 thread, you'll find quite a few over 60 members.
Heck, I'll be over 60 too in just 6 years!.....no big deal!

Zen, cool photo. Shouldda been playing your accordion in the kayak though. Sort of the TE equivalent of someone playing ukelele while in a canoe....

[pardes]

Interesting thread that laid dormant between 2005 and then jumped to 2008. Maybe the universe tilted in 2005 and no one aged?

It's been great going through all the posts in this thread. I'm glad to see how many of you are still around TE. Unlike other hobbies (obsessions?), biking seems to stick around and that is heartwarming.

I'm 62, at least until the universe tilts again.

This is me the summer I learned to ride a bike on a Pennsylvania country gravel elbow-eating road.

This is me until recently....the lost years when I worked too much overtime and was always buried under paperwork.

So I tried horses but found I'd rather walk beside them and commune with their very sentient sensibilities and it was lovely especially on a snow-covered hill on a full moon night; but, alas it wasn't doing anything for my waistline and something was missing......

And then I remembered the day, decades and decades ago, when someone flew down the country road on a bicycle and didn't take me with them.....

The rest is history....

[LBTC]

pardes, fabulous story! Well illustrated with photos and all!

I'm not over 50 yet, so I haven't read the over 50 thread. I'm glad it will be there when I'm ready for it!

For my 41st birthday in 2 months, I was thinking I'd like to do the metric century ride again (I've only done it once....), but I'm not sure I can convince any of my friends to celebrate with me the same way. We'll find something bike-related to do, I'm sure!

And, no, 40 isn't elderly, it's the new 20! heehee (which makes 50 the new 30, dontcha know?)

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[pardes]

Thanks LBTC.

I'd be a lot happier if biking worked magic on my baggy stomach like it did on the rest of me. I have horror fantasies of becoming a mere 100 pounds and still looking like I'm 13 months pregnant.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'd be a lot happier if biking worked magic on my baggy stomach like it did on the rest of me. I have horror fantasies of becoming a mere 100 pounds and still looking like I'm 13 months pregnant.

Great story, Pardes.

Hey don't count on actually losing a lot of weight. But the weight you have will get redistributed and you'll have a much cuter shape. At least this has been my experience.

[pardes]

I did not have a cute shape even when I had a cute shape. I resemble the measurements of a fire hydrant.

However, the shape I am is soooooo much happier.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Ok, here is my shape before starting biking and fitness walking:

(notice the choice of dress which covered up various rolls of fat)

And here is my shape after biking for 3 years:


You may not believe this, but there is actually a difference of ONLY TEN POUNDS less between the two pictures! I do know I have plenty of muscle now where I only had fat before. Nobody better mess with me.

[pardes]

Lisa, you are cute as a button! Thanks for implanting another image of you that doesn't involve blue headdresses and swirls on a body suit. I do love that photo as well but the variety of these photos adds spice and no one should miss your feisty brilliant expression.