Originally Posted by
DGlenday
You're showing off your ignorance.
I'm 60, and there are people older than me in my velo club (yes, we race at this age) who regularly drop thirty something cat-3 racers ... drop 'em like a pile of bricks!
Go to any crit and watch the lap times of the 60-plus racers, and compare them with the cat-3s. It will open your eyes. Go to any endurance race ... 12 or 24 hours. The podiums are liberally populated with sixty-somethings riding well in excess of 300 miles in 24 hours.
How do we 60+ riders drop younger riders? By training hard and intelligently, by knowing a thing or two about those technical gizmos and how to use them, and by refusing to believe that old = slow.
Read Friel's "Fast After Fifty". It will also open your eyes.
So drop your arrogant ignorance!
Seems Rev Chuck and I are on the same page
WOW. DGlenDay. Your area must have some very weak 30 year olds. I am 68 and I can still turn a pedal over fairly well. I have fun leaving some young riders at times, but when I encounter a good athlete in his 30s there is no comparison. However, you seem to rejoice in your delusional state, so enjoy and I will enjoy my ignorance.