GlennR

Watching the Mets game and saw 42 year 11 month old Bartolo Colon hit his first home run of his career.

Video: Mets? Bartolo Colon hits home run vs Padres

Sure he took his time, not like he's ever gonna do it again.

rydabent

You are only as old at you let yourself believe you are. Besides, as I have said many times, if you get older and you set, you rust.

OldsCOOL

Never let age be the barrier.

Jimbo47

Age is gauged only by how bad you feel!

big chainring 

I saw Colon pitch for the White Sox. When he warmed up before the game he was throwing in the outfield with a warm up catcher. He was in right field and the catcher was in left field. His throws had just about no arc to them. Just like the ball was on a line from the release of the ball. Incredible arm strength.

chinarider

Wonder how many at bats he's had in his career. Bound to make contact one of these days.

1989Pre 

He must have been waiting for a pitch like that. Word to the pitcher: Never underestimate the opposition.

BigAura

Sorry but the only way these kind of stories are inspirational is when the person doing it is OLDER. When he's 21 years younger not so much!

Miele Man

My grandfather was still saving for his old age wghen he was 100+ years young. He too believed you were as old as you thought you were.

Cheers

Mike F

Heck, you could dig up babe Ruth and he would manage to hit an HR off my Padres. Thank God for bike riding in San Diego since professional sports is never an option

rm -rf

Out at first.

canklecat

I'm more impressed with the older boxers who are still relevant long past the former peak age of around 30. Boxing is a sport that doesn't tolerate the slightest incapacity or loss of reflexes. Up until the 1990s, conventional wisdom said most lighter weight fighters were washed up by their late 20s, middleweights to light heavies might make it to their early 30s, and only a few heavyweights were still competent into the mid to late 30s. Archie Moore notwithstanding, it was rare for any boxer to compete at a top ten level at close to 40 years old.

Nowadays, thanks in part to PEDs (heavily used and mostly ignored with a wink and a nudge by those who control boxing) and better training and diet, we've seen an impressive number of fighters who were competing near their youthful peaks: Bernard Hopkins, Juan Manuel Marquez, Floyd Mayweather, Wladimir Klitschko and Manny Pacquiao were the most noteworthy examples. But others were still occasionally competitive long past the usual primes, including Evander Holyfield, James Toney (who was incredibly competitive far beyond his natural size and ideal weight), Roy Jones Jr., and many others.

Whenever I'm feeling "old" I remember Bernard Hopkins, who's only 7 years younger than I, was still banging heads at an elite level into his late 40s against much younger guys, while not getting hit back solidly very often. Most impressive was his ability to adapt his style to compensate for age, becoming more crafty, slicker and smarter. He defied the aphorism "We grow too soon old and too late smart."

FirstSarnt

I will not be too old until I depart this mortal coil. I rarely see people my age (65) when I ride, though I do encounter a lot of 50-ish whippersnappers on their $6,000 custom fitted full-carbon rides. Right now I'm interested in building my endurance and flattening those hills so I can put my retirement to good use as I see the world at 12 mph.

tcs

Okay. Seventy-five year old Luke Appling sends one twelve rows deep into the cheap seats off Warren Spahn.

BigAura

Yep

1989Pre 

You are advocating the use of illegal drugs?

rydabent

I had to ride to school as a kid if the weather was good. In my mid life i rode very little. Then around the age of 40 I took up cycling again so I could ride with my sons. I have been riding ever since, and will be 78 this year. I ride somewhere betweeen 2 and 3000 miles a year.

Granted I am a very blessed person, since I have never had and operation, or have been in a hospital for my entire life so far. But------------I firmly believe that all the cycling I do is its own reward. It has kept me in good shape so I just can and do continue to ride.

Retro Grouch 

Mrs. Grouch and I were planning to participate in a ride led by a 90 year old women this morning - only it's raining.

texaspandj

He's right age is relative. Whenever you start feeling old, go hang out with someone 20 years older than you. You'll feel and they'll treat you like a young whippersnapper.
Although 53, I generally never feel old. The thing that is literally slowing me down is my over the years weight accumulation.
The question is if you were never told when you were born, how old would you say you are?

ltxi

Now that's an interesting question/perspective. I'm gonna have to think about that.

My wife is chronologically 18 years younger than I am, but functionally older. She's roughly on the upper edge of folk I tend to identify with.

Cougrrcj

I still feel like I'm in my mid-late 20s -- on the inside! I can't imagine my parents doing/feeling/acting/thinking of the things at my age -- However, looking in the mirror or feeling/hearing the creaking joints is more telling.

huffnpuff

I'm 73 and ride twice a week, 34 miles solo and with a group of seniors on a 20 mile group ride. The group ride is a pretty tough ride for folks over 70 with 1200 feet of climbing and hold an average pace of 15 mph. I'm not strong enough to hold that pace, however, I'm working on it. I live in North Carolina and there are few senior cyclist, most folks are into eating, sitting and aches and pains. When I see a senior rider on their bike I smile, these folks are doing something that most people can't regardless of their age.

Bill

Crewchief911

I have a hard time remembering I'm 70. I remember working with a man who was retiring, and I joked he was too young to retire. He said to me, "kid, don't ever think you are old. When you do that, you GET old." I never forgot that.