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    Middle age vs old

    My birthday is coming up. Atwhat age do we stop being that "middle aged woman rider" we hear so much about and start being cool because we are out there still riding and competing at that age?
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    Kinda depends on the discipline. The ASB people have plenty of older participants, lots of whom have moved into driving, so I don't think you're special there until you hit 70. Now a jockey is cool at 50. Way cool. XC phase of eventing 60-ish, stadium the same, hunters maybe a little older, dressage older yet.

    Actually I think anybody who hits 70 and still competes in anything ridden is cool, and it isn't too shabby to trail ride or keep active by driving or showing in hand at that age either.

    At 53, I have hope to someday become cool, but right now I am the archetypal middle aged rider, LOL!
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    • #3
      "Middle-aged woman riders" use words like "horsenality" and they play "games" with their horses.

      Horsewomen are the ones out there riding.
      Please copy and paste this to your signature if you know someone, or have been affected by someone who needs a smack upside the head. Lets raise awareness.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by JollyBadger View Post
        "Middle-aged woman riders" use words like "horsenality" and they play "games" with their horses.

        Horsewomen are the ones out there riding.
        I agree 100%.

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        • #5
          Horse women found the fountain of youth. We stay young forever! I know a 74 year old woman who is still riding a Fox Trotter and training young Thoroughbred racehorses. God love her!

          ~The Black Mare

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          • #6
            Originally posted by JollyBadger View Post
            "Middle-aged woman riders" use words like "horsenality" and they play "games" with their horses.

            Horsewomen are the ones out there riding.
            That be the coolest way I've ever heard 'splained. May I keep and use it at a further date?? I am a middle aged rider...who is starting to hurt a h@lluva lot from all my horse related injuries...
            GR24's Musing #19 - Save the tatas!!

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            • #7
              So at what age are you officially "middle aged"? In my mind, I'm still in my early 20's, however my body tells me differently. I have to get my feet injected at least once a year (much like hock injections), and have some other issues that are reminding me that I'm no spring chicken. Now instead of bouncing when I fall, it's more of a thud. Gah. I got old....WHEN did that happen?
              Crayola posse~ orange yellow, official pilot
              Proud owner of "High Flight" & "Shorty"

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              • #8
                I loved reading the thread: Who's still riding "over-the-hill"?

                Covers a wide age range and is full of humor, great stories, and riders who kick!

                http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=285579

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                • #9
                  I'll be 63 in less than a month, still riding but not as much (partly due to 7 night a week job plus a ranch to run), still doing ground work and such with youngsters but about to turn over first rides to someone else under my eyes. Last fall was late last summer when one backed into some greasewood, knocked her hind feet out from under herself, sat down, tried to get up and went up and backwards and rolled over me. Nothing but some nasty bruises but to quote Danny Glover (sitting on a bomb wired toilet) "I'm gittin too old for this sh!T". Happy to ride but about ready to let younger bodies do the stuff with more potential for injury. I'm sole support for this outfit and don't have health insurance....I go down for more than a day and the whole place can go down.
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                  • #10
                    My personal Mile Marker for Old seems to be 60.

                    Not so much for riding - once in the saddle I am 18 again
                    But farm chores remind me daily that just ain't true

                    In a few years I imagine I'll be looking for some help around the farm.
                    So far handling horses is not a problem but I expect that could change.

                    One thing Age gives you is perspective.
                    Damned perspective....
                    *friend of bar.ka*RIP all my lovely boys, gone too soon:
                    Steppin' Out 1988-2004
                    Hey Vern! 1982-2009, Cash's Bay Threat 1994-2009
                    Sam(Jaybee Altair) 1994-2015

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                    • #11
                      Not so much for riding - once in the saddle I am 18 again
                      But farm chores remind me daily that just ain't true



                      SOOO well said!!

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by use'szoo View Post
                        Not so much for riding - once in the saddle I am 18 again
                        But farm chores remind me daily that just ain't true



                        SOOO well said!!
                        So true... I am stiff when I get up and my regular routine includes 2 Aleve with my coffee. I think I feel it more with the cold too!

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                        • #13
                          Everyone ages at different rates so that there's no single answer. I was talking to my BIL this weekend. He's 63 but looks 45 or maybe 50. He has been embarrassed about looking too young most of his life. He grew 6 1/2 inches his freshman year of college, didn't start shaving until he was 28, got his first chest hair at 35, and won't go to highschool reunions because they joked too much about how much younger than everyone else he looked, teasing him about being his own son.
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                          • #14
                            I'm 58 and a half. For the past 20 years my definition of 'middle age' has been '15 years older than I am at present.'

                            I see no need to change my position.

                            Unless of course there are rewards associated with being 'old' and still riding. You know, like, round trip to Paris for two for oldest horse/rider combination.

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                            • #15
                              Since I don't know anyone who has lived to be 130, I assume that I, at 65, am past "middle age" and am now "old and cool"?????

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                              • #16
                                Very funny !

                                Originally posted by Sandy M View Post
                                Since I don't know anyone who has lived to be 130, I assume that I, at 65, am past "middle age" and am now "old and cool"?????
                                Zu Zu Bailey " IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE ! "

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                                • #17
                                  I can't be middle aged... I've just recently began acting like a grown-up.

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                                  • #18
                                    Originally posted by flea View Post
                                    My birthday is coming up. Atwhat age do we stop being that "middle aged woman rider" we hear so much about and start being cool because we are out there still riding and competing at that age?
                                    I am 73 years young, and still ride and show Tennessee walking horses. Also trail ride when show season is over.

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                                    • #19
                                      AARP defines "old" as age 50, I started getting their mailers when I turned 50.

                                      Seems like somewhere after age 60-65 you could safely be labeled an "old" rider, a most Worshipful Master like a Mason, BUT only if you actually RIDE your horse.

                                      The best compliment I've received recently was from an 80 year old foxhunting friend with 70 of those years in the saddle. Two weeks ago my mare was being pretty.damn.fresh. at the start of the hunt. She said "You ride like a cowboy!!" I said "you got the first three letters right "COW" but then it's "ARD"- coward. And then I took her up on her offer to form a hilltopping group until my mare settled down.

                                      Love me those wise "old" horsewomen!!!

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                                      • #20
                                        Ha, that's funny. Sounds like me. If we are blessed with hips that work, backs that don't ache and hands that can hold reins, we can ride for ever. If we don't have to take a break and get unfit for the job - life throws us challenges that make it not so easy -- at all different ages.

                                        My flippin' horse bucked me off this year and it has made me re-think a bit - I just did not have the legs or reaction time to stay on as I would have just a few years ago.

                                        But don't call us middle-aged - best leave that to Parelli women (good comment!)
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