Fifty Plus (50+) - Do you feel you age, usually?

Well someone has to generate these polls while Dnvr is on sabbatical. It occurred to me today that as I had nothing out of my normal routine, I felt really decent. I choose not disrupt the feeling by going on a humble 15 miler in 37F weather.

What if I lie when I state my age? That would be my stated age.

Your last post reads as though you played with a good quart today. Go Seahawks! :thumb:

How exactly would I know what my age should feel like? I've only lived once, and this is the first time I've ever been 55.

The last year and a bit I am moving more like my father than my normal healthy self. Once I get a handle on an issue or two, I will be back to feeling like I did at 35 or so. Mentally though, that old bugger looking at me in the mirror catches me off guard. :)

I've been through so much crap in my life, I feel worn out and much older then my 40 years, People have always said I was an old soul anyway

Looking around I see that I am able to do physically at work what a good number of other ladies cannot do who are around my age. I don't know if it's because I have this "get it done" attitude vs "I'm going to wait around until someone can help me" type of thinking.

I work at a warehouse and I do a lot of heavy lifting. Some of the women vendors that come have to have me help them lift the 70lb bags of product for them. I just hope that one day my body doesn't suddenly break down and give up on me. :(

I voted, "a bit younger". That choice was prompted by comparing myself physically to people I encounter each week at work and at church who are in my age group (nearing retirement) and those whom I know to be younger than me. I know I'm in better shape physically than most of these folks, and I'm an ex-over-weight-ex-smoker. From a psychological viewpoint, I would choose "about even". I have a lot less tolerance than I had a few years ago for that commodity commonly known as "BS".

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At my age (80) the majority of our friends are already dead.
No, I do not feel my age 99.9% of the time

I am friends with a few people around my age and I often wonder why they can do things that I can't and the reverse is true in that I wonder why they can't do things I can. Compared to my peers- I am more agile and do a lot more exercise than they will ever do. Then I go out on club rides and virtually everyone is walking all over me. People my age- People 10 years older and that 14 year old lad that got a new bike for Christmas. And I don't even think about those in between.

I'm always shocked to look in a mirror and see how old I am or seeing relatives I grew up with and seeing how old they are. I do know my son (20) got a lot more active involvement such as leaping all over playgrounds than my daughter (11).
You're as old as you are and it's only a number. I've a ' condition' that gives mild highs and crushing lows but for all that, I just feel like 'me' and seeing that's who I is, I've no real option but to put up with it. Of course, I'm lucky that my body is more or less intact and mostly functional, life could certainly be a lot worse.

Nothing works as well as it used to, but compared to those I know who are around my age -- upper 50's -- I look, feel and act younger than almost all of them. I don't have to take medication and I normally weigh only a few pounds more than when I was in high school, while many of the others are twice their former size, or more.

I voted for "A bit younger" to be conservative, but it took awhile for me to decide on that instead of voting for "Way younger". I'm somewhere in between, I suppose.

When I was 45 years old I ran the half mile in the same time as I did when I was in 9th grade. I've slowed since then and now I am closer in capability to when I was in 7th grade. So looking at it that way, I'm getting younger all the time.

How exactly would I know what my age should feel like? I've only lived once, and this is the first time I've ever been 55.

Exactly! Or should I say +1 ? Aches and pains and the like. But I'm still active and alive at 55. Cycling has replaced basketball as my sport of choice, but not by my choice. The body made that one. I guess I'm doing well for my age, but like he said, I've never been 55 before.

Now 60, I feel much younger in my mind (just started cycling again after 40+ years off) and ready for any challenge. On the other hand, some of those challenges don't work out well due to the multiple broken body parts!So, voted "about even"

How exactly would I know what my age should feel like? I've only lived once, and this is the first time I've ever been 55.
+1, although I'm 67. I feel kind of like, well, me.

I'm about to turn 54,, and I don't need Viagra,, I'm good :)

Every now and again I "see" my hands and think, Wow, those are my grandfather's hands. But then I quickly realized they are mine. So, I kind of agree with Former FF; I don't really know what my age should feel like. I do know that I don't think of myself as "old" in the same context of old as I did my grandfather. This, however, was more than likely the result of growing up with some very ageist attitudes and beliefs. But, as I've come to learn, nothing dismantles an ageist attitude quite as quickly as getting older.

How exactly would I know what my age should feel like? I've only lived once, and this is the first time I've ever been 55.

Ditto. But only 54....

For the first time in a decade I feel younger than my chronological age. Riding and a drastically revamped diet will do that sometimes. In our area, where we grew up, cancer is very prevalent. The water system, for our neighbourhood, well was sunk into a pool of PCBs. (my dad was stationed here at the end of WWII and told us that our area was a federal dumping area for the Navy base that received loads of used batteries, drilling fluids and electrical transformers.)Many of my friends parents and a fair number of our High School classmates have either had cancer or died (most have passed away that had cancer) from such, in various forms.

When I look at the number of classmates now dead it shocks me that neither of us has had cancer, heart problems or a child with a birth defect. I suppose that riding and healthy eating has given me a much better outlook and feeling about my "Age" and what I can accomplish.

Bill

The guy in the mirror looks way older than my self-image.

Looking at the bar graph on the answers, it looks to me like cycling really is good for a person!!!

How can anybody tell? I've never been this age before so I have no way of knowing how it's supposed to feel. I voted "about even".

Do I feel that I age, usually? I do, yes. Haven't skipped a day of aging yet! No, wait...
I age a little every day and I probably age a lot like every one else so...
Wait, that's not what you mean, is it?

Gotta go with the crowd on this. Compared to my mental self-image, I freak a little when I see my hands or look in the mirror.
Having a few back issues lately (most likely from my trip and slip last year and packing too much winter weight :() which has slowed me down a bit (though NOT on the bike) and I have a variety of joint aches and pains but, by and large, I feel energized and just plain good. Compared to what I saw of 60 growing up, I have beaucoup more vitality and verve.

I'm 65 and regularly get told by my wife to act my age not my shoe size. I hope I never do!

I think I could fool a lot of people about my age but the grey hair gives me away. I say marriage made me grey. It wasn't this color before then. :)
I stay in good shape and never let the years psych me out. It's easier to stay in shape then to get in shape!

Ok so in my mind... I am young like about 19... but when I get up from my desk and need to hold on to things while my back straightens out then well I feel a bit older. Then I go to the restroom and see someone's grandma looking back at me... that can't be me! Just can't??? I wished how old I thought I was corelated with how old I look... boy wouldn't that be nice!

MIRRORS LIE!

Or that's what I tell myself. Like others, I'm always shocked looking in a mirror - I'm 27 in my head, 72 in my body - however....
Like Peter Pan, I WILL NEVER GROW UP!

The older you get, the more you realize that life is merely what you perceive it to be. "Einmal ist keinmal," if it happened once, it might as well never have happened. Conversely, if you perceive that an event in your life occurred, who's to say it didn't?

I perceive myself as being far younger than 62, and this has been mostly attributable to cycling most of my life. Well, I guess the genes help as well. My hair has not yet turned grey (only in places), my skin has not started to wrinkle. I just need reading glasses, and I get the odd muscle pain, but things still seem to be working enough to convince me that physically I am still within the warranty period.

Luis

I'm 65 and regularly get told by my wife to act my age not my shoe size. I hope I never do!
Yep. You have to grow old but you don't have to grow up.

As far as appearance, my overall appearance is unchanged over the years, except that in the past few years I've totally greyed out. I don't have to ask for the senior citizens discount, and it um chaps my hide.

However, when I'm having a good day on a bike I feel great. 60 is the new 30, or something like that.

A bit younger.Since most people think I'm 10 years younger than 58.When I'm out I usually hang with younger people.I find most my age boring.(BTW you guys are far from boring)They are waiting for the cake and coffee to be served so they can go home.

How exactly would I know what my age should feel like? I've only lived once, and this is the first time I've ever been 55.

True, but I know how I felt at 40. 59 feels a lot better today than 40 did then. Seriously.

The only parts that I was born with, and now no longer have, are my tonsils and gall bladder.

It depends on the day. There are days when I am ten foot tall, bullet proof and I am going to live forever! Other days my feet hurt, my back aches and my digestive system is demonstrating yet another way that it can malfunction. Should a fetching lass smile at me I am ready to thump my chest and swing through the jungle like Tarzan. Other days I realize that the reason that this young woman is chatting me up so candidly is that I am "old and safe". There are days when I feel as though I have the wisdom of Solomon and there are days when I make the same stupid mistakes that I did when I was 13. It depends on the day.

When I think about the gastro-intestinal tract and the need to pee every 20 minutes, I feel my age. But when I walk into a room full of adults, I still feel like the kid in the room. Even when I have a decade on half the people there. Emotionally, I'm still a kid in many ways. Riding again after a 35 year break certainly helps make me feel young.

I voted "a bit younger" though It was a tough call between that and "way younger". Had I not busted my butt going off jumps on a sled last week (yes, I'm too old for that kind of stuff), I'd probably have gone the other way. I work with youth a lot (middle school through college age) and find I can keep up with them better than other leaders who are much younger than me.

Agree that it's hard to know. I said "way younger" only because I still think like I'm younger but try hard to be more conservative in the physical things I do.

I feel younger and the Wii fitness system says I'm younger.:D

Gina really wanted the Wii fitness video game system so she bought one last week. Bowling, tennis games are pretty fun so we been playing. But when I set up the Wii fitness system, it gives you a few tests, asks your age and other stuff. It calculates the info and gives you a Wii fitness age.

In reality, I willbe 50 in 5 months, Gina is already 50 ( I like 'em older:D)

But after the testing etc, my Wii fitnes age equaled a 44 year old male and Gina's equaled a 61 year old woman.:eek:

She's not too fond of the game right now!:D

Mentally, physically and according to my doctor, yes, I feel way younger. However, at times my body sometimes wants to argue otherwise.

I feel the same as I did when I was in my 30's. The only thing I have noticed is that was easier to control the weight when I was younger.
I can't say the "older I get, the faster I was," because I was never fast and it never mattered. I still ride as far and feel as good and that is the point.

Marc

How can anybody tell? I've never been this age before so I have no way of knowing how it's supposed to feel. I voted "about even".

I agree with Retro Grouch. One thing though. I feel like it takes quite a bit more effort to maintain an acceptable level of fitness than it did even a year ago. Guess that's normal at my age but kind of scary. I'm hoping that I have a few years of puttering around on a bike ahead of me. I'm 72 years old.

Do you feel you age, usually?

Never! Well, almost never. My 70th birthday will be in a couple of months, and I may feel a little older then:) Teaching my daughter edge control over the holidays,


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it come and goes.... I'm in a good place health wise right now. 2 summers ago all I wanted to do is retire early.... glad I did't

I don't really "feel" my age except when I crash and that I'm slower now. Based on what I hear my peers talking about though I feel significantly younger. I'll take it! :thumb:

I feel somewhat younger than my 61 years. Unless the younger guys are going balls-to-the-wall, I can keep up with them on the bike. When I get really feisty, I usually end up riding with someone five years my elder and he drops me like a hot rock. :rolleyes: Still, I'm in better shape than my kids and just about everybody my age I know. There are some fast old buggers out there - I want to be like them!

I don't feel old very often; it's only when I hear things like, "David Bowie is 66 years old today."

The secret is keep doing everything that you can. Dont give up if you dont have to. If you excuse yourself from doing something, you will never do it again, and just be that much closer to the old dirt bed. If you set you rust.

Also----------if you go for a bike ride, it takes your mind of all of your real or imagined pains.

I don't feel old very often; it's only when I hear things like, "David Bowie is 66 years old today."
Thanks Miss Kenton, now I feel old even though I'm only 54.

The secret is keep doing everything that you can. Dont give up if you dont have to. If you excuse yourself from doing something, you will never do it again, and just be that much closer to the old dirt bed. If you set you rust.

Also----------if you go for a bike ride, it takes your mind of all of your real or imagined pains.


I remember when my parents were around 55, they borrowed my sister's and my bikes to go for a "last ride". They'd never, at least in my memory, ever ridden so it seemed stupid to me at the time. Looking back now, it seems stupid (and sad) for a whole different reason.

65 tomorrow! On medicare and soc. sec. feel like i'm 20. Been down with the flu since Christmas, but gettiing ready for our club,'s first "brick" 26 mi bike followed by 3.1 mi run. Getting ready for the staRT OF TRI season.

An early Happy Birthday to you Bob, congratulations on another year in the books.

Bill