I've never been too hung up on my looks but I do see my dad looking back at me in the mirror more and more every day. And looking at old photos of my dad, he was at one time a handsome feller and I guess I must have been too as I didn't seem to have trouble with the girls back in the day. And while I was not feeling that old, a couple of years ago I noticed that youngsters started holding doors open for me so to them I was appealing to be a senior citizen.

My aging issues these days have less to do with looks as they do with health. When I did my first halt marathon, there was someone there with a shirt that said "there will be a day I can no longer do this, but today is not that day". That day seemed to have come for me while training for a half last fall. I felt that my half and full marathons and the cycling I enjoy were keeping me off of medications. then all at one it seems I was taking a blood thinner, beta blocker and trying blood pressure meds to see which one worked the best for me. I have a nuclear stress test coming up at the end of the month and I'm trying to remember at what ages dad got stents, a quadruple bypass and pacemaker.