The big Five-Oh

It’s the big birthday today! 50 years old.  Sometimes I just don’t know where all the time goes. It seems like I just turned 40 LOL.

I wasn’t sure I was going to bike 50 miles or not. The weather wasn’t supposed to be great, so I had assumed it wouldn’t happen, but it was kind of sunny out and so I took my bike and myself out for a birthday bagel:

John was working, so I was solo. I figured I would take a long ride after breakfast and see where I would end up. It was fairly cool for riding in the upper 50s to low 60s.

I got back home at mile 26 and had to check and pack some orders. I decided I was going to shoot for the 50 miles even if it meant having to split it up because of working – not to mention biking by myself. That meant it was a bit of a boring ride because I was just putting in the miles closer to home in loops. I did 3 runs. The first was the 26 miles. The second was 16 and the last was 8 miles.  The last 4 or 5 miles and I was ready to be done. Not really physically, but mentally done. But – I did it!

This is an unfiltered post 50-mile look:

As I said on Facebook – next year I’m going metric.  50 miles is a lot of biking – 4 solid hours of riding time. I knew if I didn’t do it that I would have regretted it in the end for a milestone birthday.

That many miles meant a big piece of cake!  We had people over, so it had to be shared, but I still got a nice piece with a big flower of icing 🙂

This was from a local bakery. John has been so busy that I didn’t want to have him under pressure to make a cake this year. This was really good. Almond cake with raspberry filling and buttercream (of course!).

Now starts a new decade and I look forward to all it has in store!

19 thoughts on “The big Five-Oh”

  2. Shelley B

    I agree, you kind of HAD to bike 50 miles to mark this birthday…but going metric from here on is a good idea. Happy Birthday!!! That cake is so pretty – glad you had a good day. 🙂

    1. Lori Post author

      I’m glad I did it. 40 miles is a good ride for me. Once it gets past 45 – that’s just a long ride no matter how good shape I’m in 😀

  3. Lori Hoose

    Happy Fifty, Lori!
    Fifty miles, wow! You go, girl!

    Ah, to be fifty again. 😉

  4. Jo Kneale

    Happy birthday! I’m just at the start of my weightloss experience, having turned 50 in May and decided to lose the excess (I have a lot of excess). I’m looking forward to reading all your past posts as help and support.

  5. Fran

    Happy birthday! What a beautiful cake, if it tasted as good as it looks, you had a great treat.

    Way to go on 50 miles. I couldn’t do it.

    I actually didn’t really like it turning 50 but now that I am it for 2 weeks, it isn’t that bad 🙂 I also didn’t want to celebrate it at first but now I’m glad I did, I was so surprised at work that day.

  6. Kate

    Happy birthday! Good job getting those 50 miles in, I’m impressed. Speaking as someone 4 years older than you, I really think you don’t feel your age most of the time. Also, I’m enjoying your gardening posts, I’m not a gardener, but I do love to see all the beautiful flowers you take photos of.

    1. Lori Post author

      Yes, 50 miles is about the limit I want to ride anymore. That’s many hours in the saddle 😀

  8. emmaclaire

    Congrats on your 50th milestone and cranking out those 50 miles – very impressive!

    1. Susan

      Those weren’t supposed to be question marks…they were little pictures of cake and balloons.

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