How times change.

[hondated]

Being 65 today I cannot believe that I use to think it was really an old age. I am going to need another 65 years at least to get done what I want to.

[PH]

Happy Birthday!

[PDQ Mobile]

It is a really old age- no illusions please.
But Many Happy Returns anyway!

[cycleruk]

Happy Birthday.
I'm 65+ and often wonder what I'm going to do when I get old.?

[Mick F]

I'm only 63 and sometimes feel old, and sometimes feel not old.
It depends these days, on how I'l feeling mentally. Fitness and strength aren't an issue, but sometimes I feel "tired" inside and can't be bothered to do stuff.

Put me on a bike, and I can ride all day.


................ and happy birthday!

[Paulatic]

Being 65 today I cannot believe that I use to think it was really an old age. I am going to need another 65 years at least to get done what I want to.

Happy Birthday
I was 64 on Wednesday
I've a huge feeling I've left too much to do until I retire and a huge worry I'm not going to last long enough to get it all done. My Dad died aged 66 which doesn't help peace of mind.
Last year doesn't help as I was at 6 funerals all people, except my mother, my age or younger and three of them cyclists.
On the other hand I think I'm fit. I'm lucky to be sitting in the caravan, on a beautiful frosty sunny morning, in Keswick. Heading off to Workington shortly to start the C2C. Only got 2 days so might not make the end but that's an age thing. In my Audax days it would have been a day ride [emoji1]

[pwa]

65 can be a very good time of life, these days. Enjoy it. When we moved in to our house the man next door was about 65. On most days he walked across the fields to the naturist beach where he took his kit off and spent time as nature intended. It's twenty years on, and he goes there less, but he's still doing it.

[661-Pete]

Welcome to the 65's club! I'm due to leave it next month - 66 coming up - but enjoy it while it lasts. There seem to be a lot of us around the same age here in CTC-forumlandshire. Does that signify anything?

[661-Pete]

Incidentally, are folks shy about putting up mugshots of themselves on the forum? I certainly used to be, but I think as the years pass I've got over that. So here goes...

Yours truly and Mrs P, along with a VIP - no less a person than the Sultan of the island of Pulau Tidore in Indonesia. We lined up to have our picture taken with him just after watching the total eclipse there on Wednesday. I leave you to figure out which one's me and which one's the Sultan!

[old_windbag]

My Dad died aged 66 which doesn't help peace of mind

Well I wouldn't dwell on that too much, it'll do you more harm worrying about it.... aim to keep fit, eat well, keep a young outlook and enjoy time outdoors. My dad died at 42 but I'm 51 so I must be in profit! We are prisoners to our genetics but have better chances to curtail some of our flaws nowadays. And for each year extra you live new advances extend it further.... hopefully .

We lined up to have our picture taken with him just after watching the total eclipse

Looks like he's escorting you both off his premises in an indonesian style "get off my land" . Total solar eclipse's are a fantastic event though, never forgotten.

[661-Pete]

My Dad died aged 66 which doesn't help peace of mind

TBH, my dad having passed away at 60, I did have some 'thoughts' as I passed that milestone. But I've got well past it now, and still going! You probably will too. I'm not saying he had a less healthy lifestyle, but thinking was different in those days. He lived in the mindset that pinned faith in a daily workout followed by getting in his car and driving to work. And he suffered from angina from his mid 40s onwards - which I don't. And I'm (sorry to say) on the sort of drugs like statins (for all the controversy attending them!) that weren't around in his day.

Looks like he's escorting you both off his premises in an indonesian style "get off my land" . Total solar eclipse's are a fantastic event though, never forgotten.

He'd have had his work cut out, since there were some 500 other eager eclipse-chasers - many of them British - also trespassing on his land. Anyway, he had a magnificent lunch laid on for all of us afterwords . Indonesians are an amazingly friendly folk and the population of this rather out-of-the-way island were thrilled to see so many visitors.

[axel_knutt]

My Dad died aged 66 which doesn't help peace of mind.

Mine died at 64, which leaves my about another 7 years if I follow suit.

[Audax67]

Happy birthday, you young things. I'm 45, but alas that's in hexadecimal.

[old_windbag]

I'm 45, but alas that's in hexadecima

And rather rude in decimal, so change of number base gets past the moderators .

Mine died at 64, which leaves my about another 7 years if I follow suit.

How competitive we all are to beat our parents age of death, it's not a competition there are no winners in the end .

[rjb]

I'm joining the 65 club later this year and looking forward to collecting my state pension.
Here's a photo of me - some of you may have seen it on a previous thread.
You can probably date it from the hairstyle
I'm on the bike