tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post906907024896351892..comments2024-03-28T14:04:01.556-07:00Comments on Midlife Cycling: Riding In Her Mortal DressJustine Valinottihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post-12317472511116219392018-10-22T17:35:42.582-07:002018-10-22T17:35:42.582-07:00Phillip--Since I'm lousy at math, I don't ...Phillip--Since I'm lousy at math, I don't trouble myself with such calculations. And, yes, she does look good. Maybe I should start hanging out with Snoop Dog.<br /><br />Mike W and Leo--Both of you ended your comments with words to live by. I will swim in the middle of my life, on my bike, and keep on playing!Justine Valinottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post-86408829971592304372018-10-22T04:18:11.108-07:002018-10-22T04:18:11.108-07:00I'm 56. Snarky people might say I'm only m...I'm 56. Snarky people might say I'm only middle aged if I live to be 112. What they don't know is that I plan to live to 130 so therefore mathematically I'm still a little shy of middle aged.<br /><br />Incidentally Martha looks pretty good on her bike for 77(my boss has that very same e-bike). Maybe hanging out with guys like Snoop Dog keeps her young.Phillip Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553979458131339924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post-66377758762994935132018-10-21T13:03:47.888-07:002018-10-21T13:03:47.888-07:00"An aged man... A tattered coat upon a stick...."An aged man... A tattered coat upon a stick..."<br /><br />Long have I known these words, and and now I am becoming that man, at a couple of years short of three-quarters of a century. "The stick man" has long been one of my titles, what with a BMI of 19 all my life. It is said that I can come home in the rain without getting wet by walking under the telephone line. Or that I can hide behind my floor pump. And a patch or two on my jacket does not bother me these days.<br /><br />However, Martha Stewart is unknown in the Nordic countries, and I had to look her up with "a well known search engine" (BSNYC).<br /><br />We are always in the middle of life, swimming in it. And we feel it most acutely on a bike. Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02973419382045404953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post-34829326997216954032018-10-20T13:03:23.769-07:002018-10-20T13:03:23.769-07:00Well... on a recent birthday, i rode double my yea...Well... on a recent birthday, i rode double my years in kilometers to celebrate. My sister suggested to me that i was getting "a bit old" for that.<br /><br />That spring, i was on a brevet and rode the last 30km or so in the company of an older gent. i told him what my sister had said, and he told me his children told him the same thing. i asked him how old he was, and he told me he was 76.<br /><br />i told him that i wanted to grow up to be just like him!<br /><br />You don't quit playing because you've gotten old, you get old because you've quit playing!mike w.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10317710564489321690noreply@blogger.com