Are you a fat middle aged cyclist?

[Imaginos]

Kinda old,kinda short,kinda fat,kinda bald also.

 

[Mike Ayling]

How do you define middle age in 2023?
What do you count a 1942 model as?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How do you define middle age in 2023?

Generally considered 40s to 60s. But it doesn’t say anything about health or fitness. You are just no longer a young adult nor an old adult, just stuck in the middle with …

 

[steveindenmark]

My body is 64, but my mind is 30. I dont look at myself as being old. At 84kg, I am not fat. But if I were 74kg, I would still be saying I could do to lose 5kg.

I enjoy cycling. Its a great way to see things and explore areas in depth. But it also does wonders for my mental health.

 

[Gwylan]

Re fat, overweight or whatever.

A nutritionist i worked with long ago told me that a jam sandwich has about 250 cals.
Cycling, at my pace, uses about 30 cal per km.
So, when I go out the first 8 km is using up my breakfast.
The moral is increase the consumption of calories with exercise. But real success comes from moderating the intake.
I could cycle faster, but that's not my thing.

 

[DCBassman]

Kinda old,kinda short,kinda fat,kinda bald also.

This! Just ticked up 70, so beyond middle age, hoping to get less pudgy once back is sorted.
172cm, down from 174, 80kg.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I got fatter when l stopped running
I probably put 2 stone on

I ride to work, on average 9 working days out of 10, & have quite a physical job, but still can’t shift it

 

[sevenfourate]

I got fatter when l stopped running
I probably put 2 stone on

I ride to work, on average 9 working days out of 10, & have quite a physical job, but still can’t shift it

I’ve become more and more office bound / looking at jobs / quoting and quantifying jobs H+S wise 🙄….than actual ‘doing’.

As the years pass (I’m 51 now) - it doesn’t fail to amaze me how 3 weeks working physically every hour God sends and eating moderately and healthily, seemingly gets cancelled out by a couple of days of carefree relative over indulgence 🤷‍♂️

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Our GP classes patients as Old when they hit 70.

So at 66 I am still Middle Aged - albeit Very Late Middle Aged.

 

[a.twiddler]

At my age, as it seems I'm now officially too old to die young, there only remains the mind body problem when it comes to motivatng myself to go for a ride.

 

[chris667]

As a fat, middle aged cyclist I'd much rather have my 45 year old mind than my 20 year old fitness (back then, I did 250 miles a week and was properly fit - pretty good by club standards).

Getting older is a privilege denied to many, and I intend to do all the things I can to enjoy myself. Cycling's a big part of that.

 

[All uphill]

Same slightly overweightness at 68 as I was at 25; 5ft 9in and 74kg.

I'm very lucky to be in good health, so I enjoy no longer having the typical demands and worries of the middle-aged.

I cycle to see a bit of the world and to feel good.

 

[C R]

Yes and also bald and short, i probably tick all the boxes😂

Same here, though just slightly overweight, 1.65m and 68kg.

 

[Panscrank]

Pretty much.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I’ve become more and more office bound / looking at jobs / quoting and quantifying jobs H+S wise 🙄….than actual ‘doing’.

As the years pass (I’m 51 now) - it doesn’t fail to amaze me how 3 weeks working physically every hour God sends and eating moderately and healthily, seemingly gets cancelled out by a couple of days of carefree relative over indulgence 🤷‍♂️

I’m 57 now

When l was at my fittest/skinniest, l was probably about 9st 12 (l’m about 5’9”)

Not too long ago, when we’d been talking about weight gain/loss (she’d lost about 4 stone)
l showed one of the Nurses a photograph of me, aged about 50-52
I did warn her that all l had on was shorts, she wanted to look

She still tells me, she thinks of me in a different light now