Fifty Plus (50+) - Riding our age.

I'm all for this riding our age thing we do here but I have a minor poblem with it. The older I get the longer the rides. We should come up with a formula similar to the one used to find your max heart rate. That way the older we get the easier it will be to "ride our age". Maybe let the younger ride longer miles to bank towards their older years. What say ye.


P.S. Please let us be quick as I have a brithday coming up soon. ;)

I'm hoping to ride double my age this year and hold onto that distance for as many years as possible. I may not achieve it, nor for long, but I'm not lowering my expectations until frailty forces me to.

For my 60th I rode the first of what I hope are many 'Birthday Centuries'. I consider it practice for the 100th in a little under 39 years from now.

Four years ago my wife rode (averaged) her age (52) for 70 consecutive days to cover 3650 miles. She did not think riding her age was such a big deal;)

When I was younger, I used a formula for running my age. I would run 1 mile for each year until age 50; then I would subtract 1 mile for every year over 50. Unfortunately, I was injured in an accident when I was 49, and could no longer run; so I never got to the point where I could subtract miles. Fortunately, it was the event that got me back on my bike with a passion.

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This is heresy! Next you'll want donuts to replace pie!

This is heresy! Next you'll want donuts to replace pie!

Actually that would be donuts + pie. :D

This is heresy! Next you'll want donuts to replace pie!

I detect a major schism developing here. Donuts are portable. You can put them in a pannier, Camelbak, or in my case, Brainbag. Depending on your level of gluttony, you can down three or four long before your satiety center even wakes up.

Perhaps I shouldn't mention this, but when you're running for your life to escape the zombie apocalypse, what would rather carry: a bag full of Krispy Kremes, or some stupid apple pie?

I rest my case.

I can be bought. For $1 per age year. I'll ride your age for you up to age 120. After that, it's $1.25 per year of age. :D

I was going to ride my age for my 51st in April, but I already exceeded that goal a month ago. Hadn't ridden a 60 mile day since I was 25 and it actually felt easier than I recall it being then. Pretty happy with that.

And what's wrong with donuts? :) Unless of course it has no hole, then it would be a danish.

Well, actually doughnuts would be a better thing up here in the Great White North bas there are probably more Timmies than pie shops. But all this talk about pies and doughnuts is taking away from the question that I posed. I know it doesn't take much for some of us(self included) to be led astray in our thoughts at our great age but let us solve or come to a amiable conclusion to the question before getting into a great debate over pie and doughnuts.

What was the question? Oh yeah.



I'm all for this riding our age thing we do here but I have a minor poblem with it. The older I get the longer the rides. We should come up with a formula similar to the one used to find your max heart rate. That way the older we get the easier it will be to "ride our age". Maybe let the younger ride longer miles to bank towards their older years. What say ye.


P.S. Please let us be quick as I have a brithday coming up soon. ;)

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Riding ones age is too easy...anyway... HTFU.:D

Sorry, but I simply reject the whole idea of formulas and equivalences and such related to ride distance, whether in reference to age rides or comparing different activities like road riding vs. mountain biking or flat vs. hills or riding vs. running or actual riding vs. trainer riding.

Just keep it simple. Ride your age. If it gets to be too far to ride, for example, 75 miles in a day, switch to 75 kilometers (46.5 miles) or 75 yards or 75 feet or 75 minutes. Just do 75 of something to celebrate your 75th birthday.

Riding ones age is too easy...anyway... HTFU.:D

Agreed...it's not like you're trying to shoot your age in golf.

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I agree we should stay on topic, but another issue has just surfaced - donuts or doughnuts?

I agree we should stay on topic, but another issue has just surfaced - donuts or doughnuts?

Could I eat 66 in June?


Would they go down smoother with a carbon fork?

Sorry, but I simply reject the whole idea of formulas and equivalences and such related to ride distance, whether in reference to age rides or comparing different activities like road riding vs. mountain biking or flat vs. hills or riding vs. running or actual riding vs. trainer riding.

Just keep it simple. Ride your age. If it gets to be too far to ride, for example, 75 miles in a day, switch to 75 kilometers (46.5 miles) or 75 yards or 75 feet or 75 minutes. Just do 75 of something to celebrate your 75th birthday.

This is a good solution. Do your age in something. Might want to exclude some possibilities however. Personally I wouldn't want to do 62 tombays this October.

I'm all for this riding our age thing we do here but I have a minor poblem with it. The older I get the longer the rides. We should come up with a formula similar to the one used to find your max heart rate. That way the older we get the easier it will be to "ride our age". Maybe let the younger ride longer miles to bank towards their older years. What say ye.


P.S. Please let us be quick as I have a brithday coming up soon. ;)

Simple. Just go metric. About time you Yanks went metric anyway and joined the rest of the world (not to mention your own military!). I thought you guys fought the Revolution to get away from the British Imperial System! And you even had those Frenchies helping you, and they INVENTED metric!

- Luis

Ride your age or golf your age? That is the question.

How about furlongs(660 feet) per fortnight (two weeks, I think)?

I am reminded of one of the legendary figures in California cycling who was around when I first started riding seriously. Ed Delano, aka "Foxy Grandpa," must have been in his 70's or 80's back in 1972 when I rode with the Berkeley Wheelmen. Even then, he was still in many of the bike races, and I remember he was once asked if he liked doing the longer road races. His reply, "the longer they are, the better I like 'em!"

Luis

Aging is 90 percent mental, of course the other half is physical.

Simple. Just go metric. About time you Yanks went metric anyway and joined the rest of the world (not to mention your own military!). I thought you guys fought the Revolution to get away from the British Imperial System! And you even had those Frenchies helping you, and they INVENTED metric!

- Luis

Hey, we aren't the only holdouts. How 'bout Liberia and Myanmar? We've got some company.

Seriously, I wish we did switch. I teach part-time at the local community college, in the evenings in the geography department and the first lecture is usually on S.I., (Système international d'unités). They have to do a homework assignment using a freeware conversion program that I give them. Then, for the rest of the semester, I use S.I. instead of our screwed up system. Congress tried to get us to switch in the mid 70's, but did not have the sand to force us to transition. The general public rebelled.

Back when the United States was the big gorilla on the planet, we could get away with using out antiquated system. I predict that in the next few decades, as our influence in the world wanes, we will finally conform, if just to stay competitive with the new economic powers on the planet, (e.g., India, China, EU). I hope I live long enough to see it happen. I still don't have a good grasp on temperatures, but the other stuff is pretty easy ... and logical.

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Last birthday, I was able to ride double my age. A double metric century was a bit over 120 miles. My goal is to ride double my age, (in miles), until I am physically unable to do so.

Aging is 90 percent mental, of course the over half is physical.

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I agree we should stay on topic, but another issue has just surfaced - donuts or doughnuts?

Donuts In my spell checker is not wrong but Doughnuts isn't either. But If it has to be a doughnut- it has to be before and not after Pie.

I am unfortunate enough to have my birthday in January so rarely ride my age on that day-- I wait until there is a 100km ride and just add on a few miles at the end and that is normally from May to October when the wind dies down- No rain and the sun is shining. Does help if there is a tailwind and not too many hills and I did a 100 miler the week before.

I was thrilled when I heard we, the USA, were going metric, and then very disappointed when we didn't.

Somehow I knew this would morph into a metric debate. Let's get back to the question at hand:

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Ride your age or golf your age? That is the question.

I might have a shot at shooting my age if I live to 150. :lol:

Aging is 90 percent mental, of course the over half is physical.


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It's a Yogi-ism. The Yogi of Berra, that is. ;)

It's like "it gets late early out there" and "no one goes to that joint any more, it's too crowded".

I might have a shot at shooting my age if I live to 150. :lol:

I doubt I can shoot a 53. Unless you count the front 9 only.

Riding ones age is too easy...anyway... HTFU.:D
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Take enough water, food and money, even a sleeping bag.....then start early and ride all night if you have to. You could even ask a friend or family member to drive SAG.......for medical supplies, oxygen, spare parts, extra food and clothes.

But whatever you do, give it your best shot, don't wimp out.

One of the fun rides in the area takes 5 minutes off your ride time for each donut you eat at the rest stops. Maybe we could deduct 5 miles off the birthday ride for each donut we eat:innocent:

I ate six donuts on the ride a couple years ago....that would deduct 30 from my age:)

I believe I'd never get one mile in on that ride!

I ride my age. It just takes two days to do it. Where does it say you have to do it in one go?

I want to keep miles though some how klicks make me thing something is going wrong.

maybe the number of units can rise annually, but the size of that unit is shrinking..

Simple. Just go metric. About time you Yanks went metric anyway and joined the rest of the world (not to mention your own military!). I thought you guys fought the Revolution to get away from the British Imperial System! And you even had those Frenchies helping you, and they INVENTED metric!

- Luis

Luis, check my location. :) Hi, neighbour.

I detect a major schism developing here. Donuts are portable. You can put them in a pannier, Camelbak, or in my case, Brainbag.

Just stick 'em over the ends of your handlebars. That's what the hole is there for. Plus, it's safer than trying to dig them out of a bag while riding. Should be able to get, what? four or five on each side unless you've got bar-end shifters... :)

Aging is 90 percent mental, of course the over half is physical.

YEap, so when you get lost and try to wiggle your way out it turns into a Century you had planned...

A 400k is 5 times my age. I fail to see the issue.

Aging is 90 percent mental, of course the other half is physical.

Sorry, typo fixed.

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Original: Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical. - Yogi Berra

I believe in increasing the ride your age targets. It gives us targets for improvement. I don't think I need to start decreasing my ride my age miles in the foreseeable future. A one mile per year increase in length is a reasonable goal. Let's strive for improvement rather than deterioration!

You could follow this guy's advice:


“For the last five years I have decided not to go for rides of more than 100km. There is no point going overboard. I want to keep cycling for some time yet.”

Marchand last competed in the Bordeaux-Paris race at the age of 89, completing the 600km in 36 hours.

100 Year Old Man sets Cycling Record (http://bicyclemechanic.blogspot.com/2012/02/100-year-old-man-sets-cycling-record.html)

Whenever riding and I come to a fork in the road, I take it.

I ride a carbon fiber bike and it's a lot like me: The result of years of experience, capable of maximizing efficiency and minimizing effort .... and very unlikely to escape even a minor accident unscathed. :lol:

Sorry, but I simply reject the whole idea of formulas and equivalences and such related to ride distance, whether in reference to age rides or comparing different activities like road riding vs. mountain biking or flat vs. hills or riding vs. running or actual riding vs. trainer riding.

Just keep it simple. Ride your age. If it gets to be too far to ride, for example, 75 miles in a day, switch to 75 kilometers (46.5 miles) or 75 yards or 75 feet or 75 minutes. Just do 75 of something to celebrate your 75th birthday.

If I'm going to eat 62 pieces of pie on 09/22/12, I'd better start training now!:winter:

I'm going to keep riding Centuries on my single until my bod gives out. Only will do 1-2 a year since most of our rides are tandem, but we ride both 100K and Centuries, climbing permitting.

I was looking for something to do when I turned fifty and came up with riding 5 centuries in 5 days. Not sure how that related to the number 50 but I have done it for 3 years now and this year it will be the Central Oregon 500+.