Don’t read this if you’re easily depressed 🙂
If you’re 40, you have probably got only 5-6 years before you run into some problem.
At 45 I reckon I was as fit as I’d ever been, 6 pack etc, then wham, had a medical problem, and that was it. No amount of training or exercise would regain the lost ground. This seems to be the experience of most of my age group, something hits in the 40-50s. Despite keeping as fit as possible, having a reasonably healthy lifestyle, I have had 3 major health problems since.
It’s not the end of the world, but then you’ll soon find you have to train hard to stay as crap as you were the year before, but you can’t train too hard because you then get other injuries. The main thing is to keep going at it, but with the realisation you’re mortal. 🙂
So make the most of the next few years. You won’t ever be able to push yourself so hard again, and if you have some grand adventure planned, do it now.
Sorry if that sounds depressing. I just wish I had been warned about this when I was young. I didn’t get to cycle to the South Pole, and now never will.
Still there is the short version of Iditabike… 🙂