Calamity (kə-lăm′ĭ-tē) – a state or feeling of deep distress or misery
– http://www.thefreedictionary.com/calamity
Betrayed by your body! What used to follow your every wish is now slow to respond, slow to heal. Where do the injustices end?
Welcome to your new world. We all learn to work with the abilities that our bodies still possess, which are surprisingly more than you may think. Egos will kindly be checked at the door.
This blog is for all athletes, former athletes, and those who have wanted to be athletic. (It’s never too late to start!) An aging body has some special considerations yet we can still explore athletic adventures.
Aging affects both the professional
and the amateur alike. (If you’ve never competed at a masters level, it is no lie. These guys and gals are tough!)
The key is persistence.
So your starting point for training, whether for competition or just for fun and fitness, will vary according to where you have been and where your body is now. The information you will find here will be appropriate to be applied to pretty much any athlete at any level of fitness. At the very least, you should find food for thought in these posts.
And for those readers who may not know the reference of “granny gears”, this is a common cycling term (though it is also used when speaking about cars too) that refers to really low gears used to climb steep inclines. This term can be somewhat pejorative in racing circles because, while the gearing allows the rider to climb, the forward momentum slows at this low of a gear ratio. Riding slow is not in the racer’s vocabulary.
So every bicycle has what can be called a granny gear and most riders avoid admitting they use it. There is always a certain amount of pride attached to not having to use that low of a gear but we are always grateful to have it should we need it.
Oh, athletes!
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