Only a number

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I became 79 on Feb 2.

I always rode the distance of my age up to turning 70.I’m not even considering attempting 79 miles in one go Perhaps I should attempt 79 Kilometres.Think I could just about manage that.

Well I do hope you will be riding a 100 miler on your 100th birthday.

When I said I was going to invite all my pals on my 100 miler on my 100th I asked my daughter would she join me. She said "No Dad, but I'll bake the cakes".

You lot are all invited BTW. 🎂

 

[pawl]

Well I do hope you will be riding a 100 miler on your 100th birthday.

When I said I was going to invite all my pals on my 100 miler on my 100th I asked my daughter would she join me. She said "No Dad, but I'll bake the cakes".

You lot are all invited BTW. 🎂

Only if you will be on the front of the tandem and the cake is a nice rich fruit cake😀😀😀

 

[Kempstonian]

Happy birthday Sharky!

 

[postman]

Happy birthday from one who was 70 this week.One of my cards read seen it all done it all,just can't remember it all.

 

[Sharky]

I became 79 on Feb 2.

I always rode the distance of my age up to turning 70.I’m not even considering attempting 79 miles in one go Perhaps I should attempt 79 Kilometres.Think I could just about manage that.

2nd Feb - isn't that Groundhog Day?
If it's like the film, you'll have plenty of time to ride 79 miles.

 

[classic33]

Plenty of dog in the old life yet.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkoUebbj0o8

 

[ColinJ]

Happy birthday from one who was 70 this week.One of my cards read seen it all done it all,just can't remember it all.

This is what I got for my 60th!

 

[classic33]

Hope the day went as well as it could have. Given the weather.

 

[Sharky]

And one of the girls gave me a cake!

Looks like me in my Gravesend kit.

 

[classic33]

And one of the girls gave me a cake!

Looks like me in my Gravesend kit.
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Not over the hill or round the bend yet!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Only if you will be on the front of the tandem and the cake is a nice rich fruit cake😀😀😀

Fruit cake it is

And it might be a Tandem Trike

 

[pawl]

Fruit cake it is

And it might be a Tandem Trike

 

[pawl]

Good thinking 😀

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Without being too downbeat (hopefully) I think being/getting old is a PITA - your lifespan has been whittled down a fair bit by the time you hit your 60's and it's not too hard to read the signs that, however fit you are relatively speaking, you are wearing out. I find it depressing but do not obsess over it and I do try very hard to embrace the natural flow of a human's lifespan.

Nonetheless, I do think on occasion that I'm married to the love of my life, we have a terrific comfortable lifestyle and are more fortunate, in some respects, than many of similar ages to the two of us (63 & 56) - but I can't get over the fact that with a fair following wind I only have what? 15-20 years left.

 

[Kempstonian]

Without being too downbeat (hopefully) I think being/getting old is a PITA - your lifespan has been whittled down a fair bit by the time you hit your 60's and it's not too hard to read the signs that, however fit you are relatively speaking, you are wearing out. I find it depressing but do not obsess over it and I do try very hard to embrace the natural flow of a human's lifespan.

Nonetheless, I do think on occasion that I'm married to the love of my life, we have a terrific comfortable lifestyle and are more fortunate, in some respects, than many of similar ages to the two of us (63 & 56) - but I can't get over the fact that with a fair following wind I only have what? 15-20 years left.

Its being so cheerful that keeps you going, eh Spokey?