Today I would be happy to even peddle a bike, how about you?
2007-12-27 09:40:22 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I am disabled and almost 60 now.
2007-12-27 09:57:27 · update #1
Yes.......I rode alot. I had friends who were marathon runners and I was like a pacer. I tried running......couldn't handle it. No real long distances though like you did. 5-7 miles every other day....10+ on the others.
Last year I decided I was so out of shape that it was time for some exercise. I bought my husband and I new bikes. Husbands hasn't been touched.....but I tried. I wheeled my blue baby out front....tried to get on it and fell into the bushes...scratched my bike and put a huge hole in the seat......cried for a bit but still determined to give it a go.....got on it successfully....made it to the end of the short street, turned around....and walked the bad boy back......hasn't seen the light of day since.........I'm looking at an exercise bike.........LOL Preferably one that peddles on it's own....LOL
2007-12-27 10:23:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I always loved bike riding. I bought a new Schwinn when I was 33 so I could ride with my kids through the countryside in the evenings. Then my arthritis got so bad that I had to give it up and I am 66 now and disabled; otherwise, I'd still be peddling off to the fishing hole!
2007-12-27 20:09:14 · answer #2 · answered by missingora 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I rode a bike in my 20's - used to borrow my girl's bikes and ride to the corner store or 7-11.
Rode again once or twice in my 30's and 40's and the last time was when I rented a tandem to ride at the beach when I was 60!
My problem is I'm better with 'balloon tire' bikes than those sleek thingies with weird handle bars! LOL [you can tell I'm generation challenged!]
2007-12-27 19:14:57 · answer #3 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I was first married, we couldn't afford two cars, so if I wanted to go anywhere when my husband was at work, I rode a bike. With my babies. And I continued to ride a bike, even after they got old enough to ride their own, and they went with me. Even after I got a car, I still rode it, for exercise as much as pleasure. I haven't ridden much in the last few years, right now I don't have one, but when my husband retires this year, I plan to get a new one, and we do plan to do some riding! We did ride a bit a couple of years ago, but I was riding a borrowed bike. I still know how!
2007-12-27 18:50:47 · answer #4 · answered by Isadora 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would love to ride my bike again - but where would I put my oxygen tank???? ! Yes, when I was at the University, I used to peddle all over London (the campus is huge - or rather very spread out) and I used to be able to stay extremely slim because of this great exercise! CJ
2007-12-27 21:38:39 · answer #5 · answered by CJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did 20 a day when I was about 25 or so. Now I'm almost 40 and I drag my kid's trailer around with him in it, so not as far or as fast. Plus, in Alaska, there is NO bike riding at the moment.
2007-12-27 17:48:04 · answer #6 · answered by tonepoet 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Heck, I was still living at home with my parents when I was 20, rode my bike all the time. I need to get out there this summer, get the cob webs off of it and start riding again. I have no clue as to how far that I would ride it, sure wasn't as far as you did that is for sure.
2007-12-27 20:09:15 · answer #7 · answered by SapphireB 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I did, but never that many miles. Good for you! I'm too much of a klutz to ride a bike now.... I've even fallen off of an exercise bike! lol
2007-12-27 20:49:48 · answer #8 · answered by noonecanne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was riding about 20 to about 25 a day up until I was about 53. Then the neuropathy from my diabetes started slowing me down a lot. Today the Schwinn is in the storage loft.
2007-12-27 18:08:06 · answer #9 · answered by gimpalomg 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In my 20's, 30's, 40's and fifties, yes, but not for distance, and not leaning over with a flattened stance for speed. With humane handlebars, a basket, and no gears. For pleasure.
After a span without a bike, putting a new one on layaway, taking joy in the flatness of my complex parking lot, I thought I had it made at 59. Then couldn't get my foot over the bar fast enough, stopping to admire daffodils, and landed like an idiot on my side, a neighbor's visitor coming quickly to help me up, which but for embarrassment, I didn't need.
Donated it to a 14yr-old.
2007-12-27 19:42:37 · answer #10 · answered by Dinah 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋