55+ Ride-Your-Age

[olduniman]

For the Ride-Your-Age record this is a copy of the post made in http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/sho...=72724&page=10

Reporting on the second annual birthday ride by olduniman and Reinhart started last year with the aim of riding 1 furlong for each candle on the cake. This year we overshot a bit managing 72.5 furlongs or 14.6 km instead of 67 furlongs to suit me as the older. Some improvement in speed rocketing along at 10.4 km/hr average on our 24 inch Bedford unis. Last year we were slower at 9.5 km.hr.

[monocyclism]

Good to see some posts appearing in ‘Ride 55+’. In particular, that the ‘mature bunch’ post their unicycling exploits and achievements within the context of RSU. Yeah!! We don’t just sit in ‘Just Conversation’ we get on our wheels and we do it!

OK, maybe age is no big deal, but personal these days I kind of contrast my age against any riding achievement because it helps me put things in perspective. If I was doing any other physically demanding sport at my age I would still make that contrast. IMHO it’s not a case of highlighting age per se so much as being able to take age into account.

So as the clock ticks down to my own ‘Ride Your Age’ opportunity in 4 weeks I wonder whether the injuries I am presently recovering from will have prevented me from doing adequate training - to match in miles the 61 candles on my cake. Well maybe I can’t have my cake and eat it! At any rate the weather is picking up and for the first time in two weeks I will be riding again to test my recovery. Yippee ki-yay here we go again….