Exercise and Age

Badger said:

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Do you remember him? He was the first to utter that phrase.

I think that's where Rick got the 'wannabe pro wrestler' line.

Yeah. I read that later.

KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles. [censored] Lane ringside.

WHOAH NELLY!!!

Maggie said:

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It's probably also because you're a woman, which isn't to say that
it's your fault. We seem to expect them to try harder to avoid
looking older as they age.

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Is that fair?

No, definitely not. But IMHO many women don't help matters by
pandering to the prejudice with excessive makeup, cosmetic surgery
etc. A fit bod, nice hair and a friendly smile are much more attractive
than any of that.

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A man becomes distinguished as he gets older. He can
have a pot belly and no one minds.

Well, I don't mind it any less than I do on a woman. I'm not
responsible if women go after fat old men with money :-)

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Maggie says...

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One thing I have found as I age....I certainly can't participate in
some of the things I did when I was young. Now that I have taken an
interest in riding a bike I realize that people older than me are
doing it. It's a wonderful sport and its age friendly. I remember my
father in law riding a bike well into his 70's. So, ok, we have to
leave some of the sports we loved behind us....but its nice to know
there are age friendly sports still available to us. I tried playing
volleyball last summer with a bunch of my daughters friends. )All in
their 20's.) They were fine the next day. I was soaking in ben gay.
And I was a damn good volley ball player in my twenties. Damn good.
It's a little depressing to admit you can't do the same things you
could do when you were younger......In some sports you are considered
TOO OLD when you hit thirty five.
Whoever said age is a state of mind did not try to play volleyball for
hours on the beach at age 50 with team members in their twenties. I
look forward to enjoying my bike.
http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

I had the same experience with volleyball when I was 22. I played one
afternoon after not playing since high school, and could barely walk the
next day. All in all, at 39, I can't think of much I can't do now that I
did then. I'm sure my 50m dash is a little slower than it was, and
playing football now would be stupid, but it wasn't all that smart back
then either. I really don't mind getting older. In a way, it is a
measure of success, because I knew lots of people who didn't make it
this far.

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I had the same experience with volleyball when I was 22. I played one
afternoon after not playing since high school, and could barely walk the
next day. All in all, at 39, I can't think of much I can't do now that I
did then.

There are some physical things that I do annually which give something of a
calibration, stuff like snow shoveling, turning the garden beds, prepping
my sailboat every spring, etc. In all those things I can outperform myself
of 20 years ago. I remember spraining an ankle in my 20's and being shocked
that it took weeks to heal, I was used to days from my teens.

I just got back from 2 hr/35 mile ride, temps in low 30's, snow covered
roads, using a MTB with studded knobbies. I feel pretty good. A ride like
that would have crippled me in my 20's.

Michael J. Klein <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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On 11 Nov 2004 05:29:50 -0800, [email hidden] (Maggie)
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"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without
passion."

Yeah, you're 50. But you're still hot. Deal with it.

Michael J. Klein [email hidden]

Even if your kidding I am going to take this as a compliment because
it just made my year. So don't take it back. Let me bask in the glow
of an old lady getting to hear "hot" in a sentence without it
referring to the flashes that come with menopause.

http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/mypage.html

http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

Maggie said:

Let me bask in the glow
of an old lady getting to hear "hot" in a sentence without it
referring to the flashes that come with menopause.

Well, hottie Maggie, you've got company. All the hot biker chicks in
our club are...um...let's just call them mature. From this year's
Kiss of Death Ride:

http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0415.html
http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0451.html
--
terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://bike.terrymorse.com/

Terry Morse said:

Well, hottie Maggie, you've got company. All the hot biker chicks in
our club are...um...let's just call them mature. From this year's
Kiss of Death Ride:

http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0415.html
http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0451.html

Got a crush on Sue much?

(Not that I blame you...)
--
Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is
not worth the gathering.
- Propertius
(since pics were in mts.)

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http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0415.html
http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0451.html

Got a crush on Sue much?

Nah, Sue's one of the guys. And a really good climber.
--
terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://bike.terrymorse.com/

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Red Cloud) said:

you wanna talk about being poor and working so hard??? I was working
since I was 14 yr old! yes in America. Working for my father business.
OK.

"We had it tough ... I had to get up at 9 o'clock at night, half an
hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of dry poison, work 29 hours down
mill, and when we came home our Dad would kill us, and dance about on
our grave singing Haleleuia ..."
-- Monty Python

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Above address is just a spam midden.
I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca

[email hidden] (Maggie) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Whoever said age is a state of mind did not try to play volleyball for
hours on the beach at age 50 with team members in their twenties. I
look forward to enjoying my bike.
http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

That's just nice perfect day. I assume that everything is just fine
for
you Maggie. I don't know your american mentality but I do your kinds
of
believe if life is so perfect from head to toe. You got perfect
house. you got perfect car. you got perfect hair. you got perfect
chest. you got perfect butt.
you got perfect jean. you got perfect shoes. Everything is gergeous
and everything is perfect. Life is perfect! Oh I miss one...your
bicycling is perfect. YOu seem to not having a bad day huh when the
Uncle Sam debt is over 7 $trillion. Pathetic!!!!!

WHAT'S UP WITH YOU BOY?????? No one has a perfect life. GET OVER
IT!
You think I have lived this long and my life has been perfect. I can
dream about that perfect body stuff though......that would be very
very cool. PERFECT BUTT....ummmm. I was born in Newark. I grew up
poor. Give me a break here. This country has given me the freedom to
work my butt off to have the things I have.
http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

Boring. you are so boring. Nothing you wrote to me make me any sense.
You just like person like a fat-ass AMerican sitting in big Tee-Vee
and
wasting a time on it. You are like a childish like a big giri in
adult body. You are so silly and stupid and uneducated but you are so
happy-puppy American.

you wanna talk about being poor and working so hard??? I was working
since I was 14 yr old! yes in America. Working for my father business.
OK.

Maggie wrote :

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... I am trying to deal with being 50. ...
Maybe I think if I say it enough, I will come to terms with it. You
are right. I am dwelling on my age. I am 50. OK, so I am 50. Yes,
I guess being 50 is better than never reaching 50. But everytime I
type 50 I think....HOW DID I BECOME 50???.....

www.redhatsociety.com

HTH

HAND!

--Karen M.
pinkie for 2 more years

On 14 Nov 2004 00:14:52 -0800, [email hidden] (Red Cloud)

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you wanna talk about being poor and working so hard??? I was working
since I was 14 yr old! yes in America. Working for my father business.
OK.

Your daddy was in the business of artificially inseminating cows, and
you jerked off the bulls to keep the inventory stocked up.

Red Cloud said:

you wanna talk about being poor and working so hard??? I was working
since I was 14 yr old! yes in America. Working for my father business.

And you ran his 7-11 right into the ground. Pity.
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BS (no, really)

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The thing's a panacea, I tellya!

It cured my sciatica.

=v= I got an old hard lumpy bicycle seat and it
cured my impotence!
<_Jym_>

[email hidden] (Red Cloud) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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> > > You are so silly and stupid and uneducated but you are so

happy-puppy American. you wanna talk about being poor and working so hard???

I know you are but what am I. :-) Nanny nanny poo poo. The Cat in
the Hat is on HBO on my big American TEE VEE....I gotta sit my fat ass
down and watch it. Life is too short to be so angry Red Cloud. Anger
will kill you. Life is a beautiful thing. Go live it and stop judging
others....

http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/mypage.html

Terry Morse <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Maggie said:

Let me bask in the glow
of an old lady getting to hear "hot" in a sentence without it
referring to the flashes that come with menopause.

Well, hottie Maggie, you've got company. All the hot biker chicks in
our club are...um...let's just call them mature. From this year's
Kiss of Death Ride:

http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0415.html
http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0451.html

Good Lord.....I will never be as athletic as those girls in that
picture. That's impossible. Some things are impossible and me looking
like an athlete is impossible. What great pictures..... I think I am
striving for riding in the park with a jogging suit on and watching
out for squirrels. I can't compete with those two. I'm not delusional.
A little wacky maybe, but not delusional. I know myself too well. I
won't lie even on a newsgroup where people get away with it. I know I
will never be in that good of shape. Kudos to those two.
http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/
http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/mypage.html

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> > > > You are so silly and stupid and uneducated but you are so

happy-puppy American. you wanna talk about being poor and working so

hard???

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I know you are but what am I. :-) Nanny nanny poo poo. The Cat in
the Hat is on HBO on my big American TEE VEE....I gotta sit my fat ass
down and watch it. Life is too short to be so angry Red Cloud. Anger
will kill you. Life is a beautiful thing. Go live it and stop judging
others....

http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/mypage.html

FWIW, "Red Cloud" is a well-known troll on this and other Usenet groups. His
posts are always insulting, juvenile, and very poorly written (whether this
is intentional or not is not clear).

Best thing to do is ignore or killfile him.

GG

Maggie wrote:
|| Terry Morse <[email hidden]> wrote in message
|| news:<[email hidden]>...
||| Maggie wrote:
|||
|||| Let me bask in the glow
|||| of an old lady getting to hear "hot" in a sentence without it
|||| referring to the flashes that come with menopause.
|||
||| Well, hottie Maggie, you've got company. All the hot biker chicks in
||| our club are...um...let's just call them mature. From this year's
||| Kiss of Death Ride:
|||
||| http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0415.html
||| http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0451.html
||
|| Good Lord.....I will never be as athletic as those girls in that
|| picture. That's impossible. Some things are impossible and me looking
|| like an athlete is impossible. What great pictures..... I think I
|| am
|| striving for riding in the park with a jogging suit on and watching
|| out for squirrels. I can't compete with those two. I'm not
|| delusional.
|| A little wacky maybe, but not delusional. I know myself too well. I
|| won't lie even on a newsgroup where people get away with it. I know I
|| will never be in that good of shape. Kudos to those two.

Worthwhile goal to try.

"Maggie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Terry Morse <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Maggie said:

Let me bask in the glow
of an old lady getting to hear "hot" in a sentence without it
referring to the flashes that come with menopause.

Well, hottie Maggie, you've got company. All the hot biker chicks in
our club are...um...let's just call them mature. From this year's
Kiss of Death Ride:

http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0415.html
http://bike.terrymorse.com/kod0406/pages/IMG_0451.html

Good Lord.....I will never be as athletic as those girls in that
picture. That's impossible. Some things are impossible and me looking
like an athlete is impossible. What great pictures..... I think I am
striving for riding in the park with a jogging suit on and watching
out for squirrels. I can't compete with those two. I'm not delusional.
A little wacky maybe, but not delusional. I know myself too well. I
won't lie even on a newsgroup where people get away with it. I know I
will never be in that good of shape. Kudos to those two.
http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/
http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/mypage.html

re: "I know I will never be in that good of shape.", "That's impossible."

And, so it is.

That's a defeatist attitude, Maggie.

At age 38, I was overweight (6', 200+ lbs), and a smoker. I never imagined
myself as capable of being "athletic". Fortunately, I bought a low-end
mountain bike to help me quit smoking. I've been riding ever since, and at
51 I now ride around 4,000 miles per year, including a yearly riding
vacation that normally includes big mountains. Here's a picture of me from
my trip to see the Tour de France this year:
http://www.shastasoftware.com/CycliStats/biketours/TDF2004/TDF2004_013.htm
(or, http://tinyurl.com/3o3cs )

At 38, I could never have done, or even imagined myself doing, some of the
rides I've done in the last few years.

The key thing is to make regular physical activity part of your life - shoot
for 6-7 hours per week and you *will* start to get stronger. I suspect this
is harder for women than for men, because women tend to be more focused on
the needs of others, but at 50 perhaps it's time for you to make more time
for yourself.

FWIW, Henry Ford once said "If you think you can do a thing or think you
can't do a thing, you're right."

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~_-*
....G/ \G
http://www.CycliStats.com
CycliStats - Software for Cyclists

[email hidden] (Red Cloud) wrote in
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Red Clod wrote:
you wanna talk about being poor and working so hard??? I was
working since I was 14 yr old! yes in America. Working for my
father business. OK.

Clearly you should have stayed in school.