Originally Posted by
bblair
We are the exact same age and started cycling at the same time. I also hear the "where ya goin'? and Where ya'd start?" Half of the time they look incredulous and half I don't thing they believe it.
And I doubt you are much slower. For frame of reference, I briefly flirted with racing in the Senior Olympics. But those guys in their 70's are faster than I was in my 20's! As Greg Lemond said, "It doesn't get easier, you just go faster."
Having ridden competitively off and on for the last fifty years until I retired from racing on my seventieth birthday four years ago, I can assure you that, for those of us lucky enough to still be riding in our seventies, the new mantra is "It doesn't get any harder, you just go slower." (and not as far)
For me, like many of you, cycling has been a fine lifelong passion. Others our age may think we're nuts. The packs of young cyclists who pass us on our rides may think we're slow. Cycling friends our same age who have gone electric may think we're stubborn, but the roads don't care. The miles don't care. The wind in our face doesn't care. How much longer will we be riding? We can't know, but we can enjoy the miles we have left even if it's "kind of far."
Brent