Cycling offers a multitude of benefits for older adults, including bolstering the immune system, maintaining muscle mass and strength, and regulating body fat and cholesterol levels, as revealed by multiple studies. The low-impact nature of the sport makes it ideal for those with joint issues - unlike high-impact exercises such as running. Because it's so accessible and kind on the body, cycling is easy to take up later in life and to continue for decades. In a society of increasing isolation, the social interaction and camaraderie cycling offers can help combat mental health issues and loneliness too.
For many of those who've cycled since childhood progressing to club and elite levels the positive impact upon their health and wellbeing means they're still smashing PBs and picking up medals in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond.
Cycling Weekly decided it was time to tap into their secrets and discover how you and I can keep riding strongly, if not forever, then at least for many more years to come.
Andy Bruce took up cycling at the age of 39 with a bike bought through the cycle to work scheme. In the 14 years since, he has become one of the most successful age-group track riders in the world claiming a masters track cycling World Championship title in 2019.
"In October 2023 I saw a post on the History of Scottish Facebook group, saying how the Scottish Hour record had stood unbroken for almost 30 years.
After a back-of-a-fagpacket calculation, I worked out that the record of 46.65km [set by Jim Gladwell] was an average of 19.2-second laps.
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