Obsessions..

"Maggie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Since this newsgroup has made me aware of my obsession with age...just
a little obsession...;-)....I happened to mention it to a friend. He
sent me two quotes. I thought I would share....

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at
the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was
forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older
friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many
people do not have that privilege.'
Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice

Now that I realize that I am in the "second blooming" and should
consider myself "privileged" for having reached my age...I think I can
stop obsessing. Thank you all for helping me realize that 50 does not
mean "old" and I have a lot more life left in me. If I take care of
myself, exercise and enjoy this phase of my life instead of whining, I
might just have as much fun as I did when I was 20. By this time next
year....I am going to be able to participate in some of the long bike
tours available to me and not die. This is my goal. ;-)

Live life with Passion so you realize you're ALIVE!!!!
Believe in your dreams!! Never EVER give up!!!

Hometown HomePage: http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

Maggie,

A couple of years ago, Bicycling Magazine did a feature on cycling at 50 and
beyond. They have a couple of Phds and MDs who studied training techniques
.... guys who were racers in their youth. They began a strict training
regimine and managed to achieve some lifetime personal bests at age 50 ...
even though they had competed throughout their lives.

I don't have time to do the research and find this for you, but maybe you
can track it down. It was great reading. I'm pretty sure one of the
authors was Dr. Ed Pavelka. Maybe someone else reading this will be able to
recall more precisely than I can. My body is holding up much better than my
brain.

Bob C.

Maggie wrote:
|| Since this newsgroup has made me aware of my obsession with
|| age...just a little obsession...;-)....I happened to mention it to a
|| friend. He sent me two quotes. I thought I would share....
||
|| I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at
|| the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
|| Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
||
|| I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I
|| was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an
|| older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many,
|| many people do not have that privilege.'
|| Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
||
|| Now that I realize that I am in the "second blooming" and should
|| consider myself "privileged" for having reached my age...I think I
|| can stop obsessing. Thank you all for helping me realize that 50
|| does not mean "old" and I have a lot more life left in me. If I take
|| care of myself, exercise and enjoy this phase of my life instead of
|| whining, I might just have as much fun as I did when I was 20. By
|| this time next year....I am going to be able to participate in some
|| of the long bike tours available to me and not die. This is my goal.
|| ;-)
||
|| Live life with Passion so you realize you're ALIVE!!!!
|| Believe in your dreams!! Never EVER give up!!!

WTG, Maggie.

You might want to get the book "Cycling Past 50" by Joe Friel.

11 Nov 2004 06:45:45 -0800,
<[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] (Maggie) wrote, in part:

Quoted message said:

Since this newsgroup has made me aware of my obsession with age...just
a little obsession...;-)...

Thirty-nine was rough for me after that it was getting married at 40
and needing glasses at forty-five. Fifty wasn't a biggie but I didn't
have to go through the hot flashes and that stuff getting there.

My former spouse nailed it solid when she said of my near manic
ability to focus on some activity or thing, "Now that you have an
obsession, what are you going to do for a hobby?"

Quoted message said:

Now that I realize that I am in the "second blooming" and should
consider myself "privileged" for having reached my age...I think I can
stop obsessing. Thank you all for helping me realize that 50 does not
mean "old" and I have a lot more life left in me. If I take care of
myself, exercise and enjoy this phase of my life instead of whining, I
might just have as much fun as I did when I was 20.

The lifestyle I lived as a teen had me doubting I'd see 26.
About at age 21 was probably the first time bicycling helped me turn
my life around. I saw "old" guys still out riding and apparently
having fun. That looked better than where I felt I was headed and
bikes were cool so I started making that my goal. At fifty I figured
I'd better get back with the program. Bikes are still cool.

Quoted message said:

By this time next
year....I am going to be able to participate in some of the long bike
tours available to me and not die. This is my goal. ;-)

Listen to your body but let it know you're still boss. Sometimes it
just hurts so good.
--
zk

"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

11 Nov 2004 06:45:45 -0800,
<[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] (Maggie) wrote, in part:

Quoted message said:

Since this newsgroup has made me aware of my obsession with age...just
a little obsession...;-)...

Thirty-nine was rough for me after that it was getting married at 40
and needing glasses at forty-five. Fifty wasn't a biggie but I didn't
have to go through the hot flashes and that stuff getting there.

Are you serious?!?!?!? From your writings here I would have pegged you for
a late 20 or early 30something. You must be young at heart.

Must be something in that BC air....

I hit the big 39 this year. The worst part for me was realizing that there
are women who are legal adults who are nevertheless 'too young' for me now.

🙁

--
'And then one day you find,
Ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun' -pink floyd

loki said:

I hit the big 39 this year. The worst part for me was realizing that there
are women who are legal adults who are nevertheless 'too young' for me now.

good lord, man.. i hit that at 26.
--
david reuteler
[email hidden]

David Reuteler said:

loki said:

I hit the big 39 this year. The worst part for me was realizing that there
are women who are legal adults who are nevertheless 'too young' for me now.

good lord, man.. i hit that at 26.

I'm 41. If it's 26, I'll still hit it.

--Blair
"Makes the same noise when you crank it."

"David Reuteler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

loki said:

I hit the big 39 this year. The worst part for me was realizing that
there
are women who are legal adults who are nevertheless 'too young' for me
now.

good lord, man.. i hit that at 26.

It's been coming on for a few years. I'm not saying I cruise the Univ. pubs
trying to pick up 19 year old Frosh [at 26 I wasn't averse to that though].
But when I see the latest 20 or 22 year old sexpot singer or actress on TV
or in a movie; where my first thought used to be entirely carnal now it's;
'she's too young'.

--
'In the days of my youth
I was told what it means to be a man
Now that I've reached that age
I've tried to do all those things as best I can' -led zeppelin

Blair P. Houghton said:

I'm 41. If it's 26, I'll still hit it.

--Blair
"Makes the same noise when you crank it."

Ewww. He's a pig, as well as a moron.

Go crank yourself, BP.

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:48:52 -0500, <[email hidden]>,

loki said:

But when I see the latest 20 or 22 year old sexpot singer or actress on TV
or in a movie; where my first thought used to be entirely carnal now it's;
'she's too young'.

I look at their quads.
--
zk

Quoted message said:

I hit the big 39 this year. The worst part for me was realizing that there
are women who are legal adults who are nevertheless 'too young' for me now.

🙁

No, if you have money, you'll definately find 'em. Look at Billy
Joel. Now how sick is that? I'm sure she married him cause she WUVS
HIM!!! Ya think? I don't understand how men can date women younger
than their daughters. I will never figure it out. My husband is Billy
Joels age and my daughter is the age of Billys new wife. Actually she
is younger than my daughter. I will never understand men. Not that I
want to, but I still will never understand them. Then she will
probably want a child and Billy will be 75 with a teenager. To me its
all nuts.

http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/temporarypreviewfile.html?1100212880789

http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

www.allsecretarial.com.

Maggie said:

Quoted message said:

I hit the big 39 this year. The worst part for me was realizing that
there
are women who are legal adults who are nevertheless 'too young' for me
now.

🙁

No, if you have money, you'll definately find 'em. Look at Billy
Joel. Now how sick is that? I'm sure she married him cause she WUVS
HIM!!! Ya think? I don't understand how men can date women younger
than their daughters. I will never figure it out. My husband is Billy
Joels age and my daughter is the age of Billys new wife. Actually she
is younger than my daughter. I will never understand men. Not that I
want to, but I still will never understand them. Then she will
probably want a child and Billy will be 75 with a teenager. To me its
all nuts.

http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/temporarypreviewfile.html?1100212880789

http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

www.allsecretarial.com.

Billy Joel?
What about Bill Gates? He could just promise her to buy her a state.
With riding trails of course.
Bill Baka

--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

B i l l S o r n s o n said:

Blair P. Houghton said:

I'm 41. If it's 26, I'll still hit it.

--Blair
"Makes the same noise when you crank it."

Ewww. He's a pig, as well as a moron.

Go crank yourself, BP.

You're gay, I'm guessing.

--Blair
"See, the difference is, I'll ask
nicely first."

Blair P. Houghton said:

B i l l S o r n s o n said:

Blair P. Houghton said:

I'm 41. If it's 26, I'll still hit it.

--Blair
"Makes the same noise when you crank it."

Ewww. He's a pig, as well as a moron.

Go crank yourself, BP.

You're gay, I'm guessing.

--Blair
"See, the difference is, I'll ask
nicely first."

Don't complain, just enjoy the moment. I'm 56 and have a 38yo trying
to get me alone, but my wife won't let her. Good looking blonde, too.
<Sigh>
Bill Baka

--

Blair P. Houghton said:

B i l l S o r n s o n said:

Blair P. Houghton said:

I'm 41. If it's 26, I'll still hit it.

--Blair
"Makes the same noise when you crank it."

Ewww. He's a pig, as well as a moron.

Go crank yourself, BP.

You're gay, I'm guessing.

He said hopefully.

Quoted message said:

--Blair
"See, the difference is, I'll ask
nicely first."

Ask Nicely = Beg Pathetically

Congrats, Blair, you got me to stop the quote thing; made me realize just
how annoying it can be!

Bill "see?" S.

Bill Baka said:

Blair P. Houghton said:

B i l l S o r n s o n said:

Blair P. Houghton wrote:

> I'm 41. If it's 26, I'll still hit it.
>
> --Blair
> "Makes the same noise when you crank it."

Ewww. He's a pig, as well as a moron.

Go crank yourself, BP.

You're gay, I'm guessing.

"See, the difference is, I'll ask
nicely first."

Don't complain, just enjoy the moment. I'm 56 and have a 38yo trying
to get me alone, but my wife won't let her. Good looking blonde, too.
<Sigh>

If your wife insists on being in on it, how bad can it be?

--Blair
"Problems I wish I had."

B i l l S o r n s o n said:

Blair P. Houghton said:

B i l l S o r n s o n said:

Blair P. Houghton wrote:

> I'm 41. If it's 26, I'll still hit it.
>
> --Blair
> "Makes the same noise when you crank it."

Ewww. He's a pig, as well as a moron.

Go crank yourself, BP.

You're gay, I'm guessing.

He said hopefully.

Quoted message said:

--Blair
"See, the difference is, I'll ask
nicely first."

Ask Nicely = Beg Pathetically

Congrats, Blair, you got me to stop the quote thing; made me realize just
how annoying it can be!

Bill "see?" S.

No, what I see is a puling pissant with no sense of humanity
and no intelligence pretending to play with the grownups.

But it's past your bedtime.

--Blair
"*plonk*"

Blair P. Houghton said:

B i l l S o r n s o n <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Congrats, Blair, you got me to stop the quote thing; made me realize
just how annoying it can be!

Bill "see?" S.

No, what I see is a puling pissant with no sense of humanity
and no intelligence pretending to play with the grownups.

But it's past your bedtime.

--Blair
"*plonk*"

I'm almost too devastated to blow the smoke off my trigge--- er, CLICKER
finger!
--
BS (no, really)

Bill vs. Blair:
<< Congrats, Blair, you got me to stop the quote thing; made me realize just
how annoying it can be!

Bill "see?" S. >>

There's only room for one quote guy
around here.

"if that"
Robert

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:48:52 -0500, "loki" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

"David Reuteler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

loki said:

I hit the big 39 this year. The worst part for me was realizing that
there
are women who are legal adults who are nevertheless 'too young' for me
now.

good lord, man.. i hit that at 26.

It's been coming on for a few years. I'm not saying I cruise the Univ. pubs
trying to pick up 19 year old Frosh [at 26 I wasn't averse to that though].
But when I see the latest 20 or 22 year old sexpot singer or actress on TV
or in a movie; where my first thought used to be entirely carnal now it's;
'she's too young'.

Its only because you have to talk with them later. They know nothing
of importance or of interest to adults.

Michael J. Klein [email hidden]
Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC
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