Originally Posted by
Baboo
At 73 I haven’t ever really trained I just ride to keep in shape and because I like to. What I have noticed as I aged, that it takes me two days instead of one to get over a hard ride, used to be after one day off I was good to go, now I am still tired the second day after also. I am still able to do multi-day tours but have to be careful not to over extend myself by keeping the miles down.
Makes sense. That's the general consensus of older riders I know. The A group that I ride with from time to time meets 3 x's a week with recovery ride on Sat where the mph cap is ~19mph or so on Saturday. The weekly ride can get intense when Cat racers infiltrate the group which they do. Some of the older riders that used to ride the A group when there was just one group...have now chosen the slower group. The guys now in the B group...it is really more of an A- group...sometimes doesn't finish much behind the A guys but it just doesn't have the intensity and the sprint part of the ride has been suspended. When I ride each group I notice a difference in my exhaustion level after the ride and my recovery.