After a long drawn-out process, I’m back towards the top end of my fitness. My numbers are as good as they were when I was in my 30s and 40s. My conclusion is that I’m working hard and probably closer to my potential than I have ever been.
By my reckoning, I’ll be putting more into the Watt bike and lifting more in the gym than I ever have by the end of the year. I’ll be 52 years old.
Which challenges the thinking that we should accept that we are getting older and that we are unlikely to achieve a PB. That assumption is based on the idea that we were working to our full potential in our 30s and 40s. I clearly wasn’t.
Were you? And if not, why not now?