Originally Posted by
Denny004
I'll be pedaling along when some older person (i'm 46) with block pedals and flip flops will go whizzing past me or some teenager on a cruzer will fly past me. It irritates the hell out of me. I know the solution is to pedal faster--I'm good at 25 mph- but it still bugs me.

I'm 60, and have recognized that the biological reality is that we lose the muscle fibers which result in the ability to accomplish short term bursts of speed as we get older. Either hammer down and try to catch up with the young fellow, or get over it. I speak from experience when I say that it will get worse for you