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From: zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: aging and riding
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 07:13:57 -0400
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On 4/30/2025 6:25 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
> I am in the process of refinishing/repainting my kitchen cabinets. A 
> tedious job you have to remove doors and handles. Clean, sand a bit, and 
> paint 2 coats. Getting the hinges off and bending and getting on the 
> floor is not easy as it was 6 years ago when I repainted inside of house.
> 
> Normally I do  my ride early in the morning and come in and eat good 
> them rest a bit and dive in. Well not the back does not like all the 
> bending and up and down. I was never good at it and not real flexible 
> for sure. On top of that the normal 40-55 mile ride now takes enough out 
> of me that I don't have the pace I once did.
> 
> Even 6 years ago I would jump  on bike and ride 50 and come back and go 
> for say 4-5 hours easy. Now I tell you after 2 I am getting wiped. This 
> painting is like painting a bike you have to mask things to avoid problems.

Joe Friel's book Fast After 50 has detailed tables showing the 
performance loss with aging of age-group competitors. Let's just say it 
isn't linear (and rather depressing TBH). I can't find any snips from 
his book online, but this is a pretty close representation:

https://www.whyiexercise.com/images/jogging-hiking-aging-decline-estimate.jpg

which is from here:
https://www.whyiexercise.com/aging-and-exercise.html

Not discussed there is the time to recover, which is also non-linear. 
Last fall I went on a rather hilly 75 mile ride. We weren't exactly 
hammering, but I was surprised at how whipped I was the next day - And 
that was at the end of a summer of training/racing.