Funny!DaveCon wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 9:27 am I've just recently got back into mountain biking after a lay off of around 15 years. In the last year I've bought three bikes and I'm on one or other of them two or three times a week and loving it. But I was complaining to my daughter that I do feel tired a lot, how did I get so old (57) without noticing.
"Oh you've got a few more years left in you yet haven't you?" she replied and for some reason didn't cheer me up
I've had chronic lower back pain since I jumped from a truck in Mali in 1989. 30 years of aches and pains, and three discectomy operations. So I've been letting out a groan every time I get out of a car since I was 23 years old. I've felt old for a long time.
But I'm determined that it won't beat me. It didn't stop me from doing endurance racing and short circuit racing, and it absolutely will not stop me from hooning about in the mud on my 450 Beta even now. I just do all the stretches (though they kill me sometimes) and keep popping the pills. Sometimes I can't pick the bike up after another comedy lie-down, but that's what mates are for, several of whom are good members on ABR.
They say that 'you are only as old as you feel'. Well I feel pretty old, but only physically. Mentally I'm still a kid really. I'm up for doing daft things and I think the same way as I did as a twenty year old. That's the key to growing old, IMO. Everything might be wearing out, but there's no need to let your mind take a pension.