In Support of 60-year old Women Everywhere

[goride]

That lady isn't 60. I'm going to be 60 in November... I don't look like that!

That was my exact first thought - she's not 60, I'm 60 and I don't look like that.

[boulderbee]

I joined a couple of weeks ago, and have looked around a bit. I'm very much a newbie (my only other bike, a Motobecane, I got in the mid 70s, I've moved so many times I can't remember what happened to it, and I haven't ridden in decades) and as this thread addresses 60 year old women it struck me that it might be time to dip my nearly 60 yr old toe in.

I recently acquired my lovely new bicycle (seen in the avatar) to replace my departed dead car. Yes, I am sans car now, have been commuting 8 miles a day on my Public bike, schlepping groceries and feeling pretty good as a result of all this. When the car died I thought my life couldn't get much worse, but it turned out to be a timely and much needed metamorphosis.

Boulder is rife with bikers, mostly lycra clad and whizzing past me on spidery racing bikes - the city has miles of bike lanes, fun to explore. I'm so glad to have been forced by circumstance into a new world. I'm happy to have found this little enclave and look forward to learning from what is clearly a treasure trove of hard-earned and valuable experience.

I gotta say though - I too look nothing like the woman in that picture. Give me another 20 years and I might come close.

[OakLeaf]

Kudos to her for riding in that wind - and to the blogger for noticing.

I'm curious about the ones who think she "doesn't look 60." She could be a good-looking 70 or 75, for sure, but she'd be in darn good shape for that age, I would think. To me, the last nine years have been exceptionally stressful and it's possible I've aged more rapidly than I ought, but if I age as much in the next nine years as I did in the past nine, I'll look quite a bit like her ...