[Closed] How fit are you compared to you at your peak

I’m a mere shell compared to my old semi-pro cycling days.

And I feel my age too some days..

3 out of 10 being optimistic.

Although a lot of pieces are beginning to fall into place that’ll facilitate a return to lost training levels.

I've always been reasonably fit, a peak was 2013 when I did an Ironman and could also run 5K in 18:00.

Presently 19:40 or so so 6/10

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Do tell...

If my ultra triathlon year in 10/10, I'm nowhere close to that and would guess 3/10.

However, given my passed/passed by ratio on my last peak ride, it's not quite as bad as I thought compared to a random selection of "average" mountain bikers.

7/10

I used to be super-active, but ironically I think I was more 'capable' as an athlete in my early 30s. Then I returned to form in my early 40s, with minor backsliding over the last 12 months. That's what brings me to where I am now. I can cycle well enough, but I was taken by surprise when I got dropped by the chain I was riding with on Monday.

I am carrying about half a stone more than I want to carry, and need to work up my full power endurance.

Unfortunately, I am struggling to get there. 🙁

52 now, my peak was 28 years ago playing pro rugby league.

so far from my peak that I cant even remember it...........  ;o)

It's hard to tell because not only am I less fit than 20 years ago I'm also lazier.  The chances of me putting 100% effort into anything are pretty low so any fitness measurement is irrelevant.

id say about 5.

Ive been a lot fitter but ive also been a lot lot worse.

Never been really fit tbh

Depends what you mean by fit; between the ages of 8 and 28 I was a strong mountain walker and could charge up and down anything, I even worked for a full summer in Haute Savoie as a walking leader for Ramblers Holidays.

Then I moved to London and got into motorbikes and got quite unfit and began to get overweight.

Then at the age of 33 I started mountain biking and got quite fit but lacked mountain strength; walking down hills made my legs sore.

Then at the age of 53 I got into road cycling and got properly fit so now, I can romp up hills without breaking breath but walking down hills absolutely kills me; my legs are sore for days afterwards.

Mid twenties I ran 6 minute miles and benched 110kg

Now at 49 I run 110 minute miles and bench around 6kg

Compared to my peak - I'm probably about 8 or even 9 maybe.

It's not a very high peak though...... if the pro's are Himalayan, and the ex-pro RL / Ultra marathoners above are Alpine, I'm currently Scafell where I was once Snowdon.

I'm probably as fit as I've ever been, spent most of my 20s off my tits though so lean as **** 😀

1/10 at the mo, been off the bike for 18 months (embarrassed to say due to laziness rather than illness etc.), at my fittest I couldn't see the point of going out on a road ride less than 50 miles (unless just for a social thing) now I think I'd struggle to even do a 25 mile ride...

Happy to say that right now I'm at my peak.

I''ve raced XC for the last 5 years.  I've taken it more seriously in the last 2 years and have really gone for it this year.  Making the most of it whilst I still can!

Hopefully next year will be even better

I am very much afraid to say that I might currently be at my peak, that's depressing.

Fit for what?

In my twenties I worked as a scaffolder but even a day at half the intensity I used to do it would wreck me now! I climbed for thirty years but gave up about six years ago and would struggle on something that not long ago would be a breeze. Likewise with fell running.  Last year I did a few days walking in Scotland Munro bagging and my legs were trashed! Yet two months earlier I'd done the HT550 and felt fine.

So I'd say I'm fit but it's not in the areas that I excelled at in earlier years. No idea how you'd measure/compare it but at a guess: 6/10

I'm 42 and fitter than I ever have been.

Not very, used to fairly comfortably ride with fast groups, and 100mile road rides were just something I did when I felt like it on a day off.

Even on my long slow decline I briefly had the Swinley blue/red/blue kom (for about 12 hours when it opened, not that impressive really).

These days I cramp up after about 25 miles off road.

5/10 - peak was when I was 30.. 24 bloody years ago. I don't think my body could stand for what I did to it back then. Knees definitely couldn't! What a depressing thread! 😆

It’s not a very high peak though…… if the pro’s are Himalayan, and the ex-pro RL / Ultra marathoners above are Alpine, I’m currently Scafell where I was once Snowdon.

I'm Crickley Hill where I was once Cleeve Hill

Possibly at 10 a couple of months ago (marathon PB) though I reckon my cycling time trials may be a bit down on what they were 20 years ago. Hoping to find a couple of flat/fast events this summer as a benchmark.

I'd say in a running/rowing fitness i'm not there.

Whereas in a cycling context i'm more than a 10... .I'm considerably quicker, faster, stronger and better on a bicycle than i've ever been. But as above, it's only my cycling fitness that's at a peak. I can't run like an 18 year old, or row like i did when i was 30...

My fittest (after my teens anyway) was late last year, I think, aged 52

Tried pretty hard to get fit before a hernia op, then off the bike (not just due to the surgery) for nearly 3 months before I did any meaningful pedaling so got some catching up to do.

maybe 6-7

Hard to say - from a bike perspective, having started riding bikes again in 2014, i rapidly decided to start racing again and worked hard on getting fitter. This peaked 2 years ago (mid-thirties) and since then fatehrhood has reduced time and inclination so am about 8/10 on that scale. However I'm unsure whether I was actually fitter aged 15 when I used to ride and race a lot. Certainly my resutls were better then but that's probably not a good marker given i loose so much time these days from lack of technical abilty which youthful exubernace made up for in the past.

When I do peak, you'll know.

In terms of running I'm fitter than I've ever been, assuming marathon PR's are an indication.

Cycling, I'm no-where near where I used to be as a cycle courier and MTB racing, probably 6/10

Cheers, Rich

51 and probably fitter than I've ever been. Mind I spent my late teens / early twenties living the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. 30's doing various martial arts, 40's off road cycling. Since 48 I've been getting into running and going to the gym 3 - 4 times a week. Also have a better diet than I used to have.

Been fit all my life. Military background.

Cycled competitively for years, at age 44 decided to retire from racing. All my spare time is spent with family and helping with after school clubs etc.

Im at least 1 stone heavier and most of my clothes are a lot tighter. I still get to ride 4 times a week, but at a significantly reduced intensity. I think I overtrained the last two winters and this led to me stopping racing early.

Glad to no longer be worrying out diet, power to weight etc. Nowadays I actually get to see and enjoy the countryside when I’m riding.

Great question, and I really don't know the answer. Most of my exercise these days comes from riding a bike, so I'm probably as fit as I've ever been for cycling. Ask me to climb or ski - stuff I used to do regularly in my youth - and I'll be a sorry 5/10.

10. Would like to beat my age in a 25 (current PB is 51 1/3, so only need a minute).

I could've been a contender...

No idea. Used to race XC in the NPS 11 years ago, just ride to work now (3 miles each way). 12kg heavier (mainly muscle) and currently just do strength training and very little aerobic stuff. Certainly stronger than I've ever been, but probably no where near as fit....

I think I'm about 7/10.

Back in 2008 I was 4th in the Scottish National XC Champs, and that year won a couple of 12 hour races and over the next three years was at worst 7th in all the endurance races I entered. Then I got a job in 2012, got married and my fitness crashed. I was getting somewhere in 2016 but then got very ill and had to start all over again at the start of 2017.

This year I did my first race for years and got 5th at the Strathpuffer, but in Quads and with a really fast lad on our team. I'm getting back there, and my riding all round is much better for it (my DH times are going up and up). It's much nicer to be fit than fat.

I'm 44 and about the fittest I've ever been.

I was a [s]bit of[/s] quite a lardy kid, always last in the cross country etc.

A lot thinner in my early 20s but that was down to not looking after myself - I suppose I got plenty of exercise but it was pretty much all dancing all night under the influence of drugs (and some shagging), so not really "fit and healthy" more "wired and unwell"

Then the first few years of being more like an adult, put on a bit of weight and didn't take much exercise at all.

Then rediscovered mountain biking around 15 years ago and been on a generally upwards slope of fitness (other than occasional blips due to injury) ever since.

Fit for what? Probably about 6/10 at running/biking/kayaking i used to do a lot of (I'm still pretty fit compared to the average person, but used to be incredibly fit). However I'm the best I've ever been at rock climbing, skating and unicycling.

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Would like to beat my age in a 25 (current PB is 51 1/3, so only need a minute).

I reckon the easiest way to manage that is to get older. It's pretty much impossible for anybody under 45.

It doesn't make sense to me ... at 50 I'm reasonably fit for cycling but running kills me.

Of course I'm nowhere near as fit at 50 as late teens early 20's ... but I'm a good deal fitter than some of times in the 3 intervening decades.... but my expectations also changed.  I don't think it would be possible to be as fit as in my late tens and early 20's but even if it were it would be an all consuming thing.  So applying some sort of sliding scale if that was a 10 then although I'm not as capable of the same stuff I feel a 7 or 8 for my age.

It's hard to compare directly if I was fitter at say 30 ... 42-43 was a very low point when I was ill, couldn't do any exercise without tachycardia and passing out...

I’m probably as fit as I’ve ever been, spent most of my 20s off my tits though so lean as **** 

Just thought id get a big smiley in.

Im the fittest i've ever been at 44, looking to get more so, might actually have a chance of a podium by the time im in the grand vets category.

I've just got back from a nearly 30 mile solo road ride at the highest average speed I've ever managed. I'm 58, and I've been cycling all my life apart from a gap between 24 and 30.

I'm 52 and right now I'm probably 10/10.  Over the last couple of years I've ridden more and harder and got lighter.  Oh, and having two new bikes recently makes me at least 10% faster 🙂

Its probably all downhill from now on though !

Not too far off my very low peak actually - there was a period in 2005/6 when I dropped about 3stone and was actually fairly fit.

Went to shit in 2009 when I got, was pretty good last summer, put some of the weight back on over the last 12 months, coming back off now.

For me 'peak' is being able to ride something like PDS without dying.

According to Strava, I peaked on 5 May, 2018, with a power output of 271 W. Yesterday I slipped to 270 W, today to 263. At that rate of decline, I'll be in a wheelchair before the end of summer.

It would be interesting to know how fit you were as a percentile of the general public. Impossible to work out of course but I'm going for top 0.1%. 🙂

At 37, depressingly, my fitness is now reducing..!

Still playing decent sport against all ages but noticeably that outright speed is slowly reducing.

I'm pretty far below my peak- which was summer 2016- but tbh still fit enough to do all I want to do so I'm not that fussed. I'm going to get absolutely rinsed at the GT7 though 🙂

7 out 10 Resting heart rate in my 30s was around 35 now at 54,it’s around 56.

1 out of 10,at 28 I weighed 9st 10lb and could run a half marathon in 1 hr 25 mins,now 63 weigh 13st 4lb and on a good day I average 10 mph on a bike on the TPT near Barnsley .

47 now. Its difficult to say how fit I am now compared to my peak. I have done different sports at different stages of my life, and each was very different, and the types of riding I used to do 10 years ago is different from the type of riding I do now.

20 years ago I had very good stamina/endurance but lacked physical strength - now the stamina/endurance is not what it was but I am physically stronger. I am better at the type of riding I do now - but not as good as the riding I used to do ... so I would like to think I have yet to reach my peak.

I recon with clean living, I will likely peak in about 8-10 years.

It would be interesting to know how fit you were as a percentile of the general public.

Non-representative analysis based on my Bootcamp. It's slightly self-selecting because Bootcamp attracts people who in general aren't that fit, but then they enjoy it and keep coming, and become reasonably fit (compared to population at large) or jack it in fairly quickly because it's hard.

So at any point there's a reasonable mix of folks from not very fit newbies through to one lass who's like the duracell bunny.

Agewise, similarly - 20's up to a few of us who are pushing (or breaking into) the 50's.

On that basis I'd say I'm top 10-15% of attendees by ability; and certainly top 10% of age by er, age - which gives a few bonus points because you expect the youngsters to be fitter and faster.

So my very approximately normalised for age assessment is that I'm probably top 10% of fitness among the general population, and age adjusted maybe top 5% in my demographic of  45-55 year old men?

That said - half of people are below average and so to be top 10% doesn't make you fantastically fit.

2 or 3 I reckon and slowly trying to get back up the scale. 41 now with two young kids and a desk job. In my late 20’s to early 30’s I worked s very physical job in a mill. Did weight training, boxing, martial arts, walked or cycled everywhere and did a fair bit of climbing.

I now rarely exercise, have no hobbies and only get out on the bike occasionally. 😕 just started a circuit class on Mondays and boxing on Thursdays. Very hard to make it every week though.

So my very approximately normalised for age assessment is that I’m probably top 10% of fitness among the general population

That would mean there were about 6.5 million people in the UK who were as fit or fitter than you. Or is my maths awry?

Pretty good right now, probably about 8.5-9/10.  I go by what I can do on the Concept2 rower, a few years ago I was down to 38:30 for 10,000m now it's 39:00 on VERY good day.  So I think I'm staying up here quite well.  Doing more weights and kettlebell stuff too, as much reading says that I should now I'm soon to be 1/2 a century old.

Not great, maybe 3 or 4 /10. Just too many injuries since last autumn to actually get much riding, or anything done really.  I'm confident I can return to something useful once over the current issue though. Just need a decent run of an injury and illness free few months.

probably 5/10.  Used to commute 18miles each way most days and didn't appreciate at all the base level of fitness it gave.  Now it's all a bit of a struggle 🙁

Haven't given up though, it just requires a lot more effort

It depends how you're measuring fitness. On a mountain bike for speed over a short distance (say a hilly 10k) maybe 7 or 8 but further (but still shortish) and it's probably a 4. For endurance a 1. Running of any sort a 0!

I'm probably 7/10.  Finish 5 months training, went into racing and I can't ride at my potential.  I suspect I'm tired/overtrained.

That would mean there were about 6.5 million people in the UK who were as fit or fitter than you. Or is my maths awry?

Yeah, broadly I'd say so.  Or there's 55M who are less fit.

Or....... go and find 99 other people at random and we'll do a range of fitness tests and I'd be in the top ten overall.

I mean, statistically a proportion of those will be pensioners, a proportion will be young kids so fairly quickly you're in the top half even without being any good......

Finish 5 months training, went into racing and I can’t ride at my potential.  I suspect I’m tired/overtrained.

Take a week off, chill out, recover. I did that about 20 years ago and never started again. I am almost certainly in the lowest 1% of STW forum fitness, perhaps even lower. I reckon I peaked at Primary School where we were playing full contact playground footy every break and I was an attacking centre half. I ran the 400 metres in around 78 seconds at the age of 10 or so, I will never be that quick again. It's sad really, but I often sit back with a glass of Tizer and dream about those golden days.

a proportion will be young kids so fairly quickly you’re in the top half even without being any good……

I think that that might depends on your measure of fitness!  https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/children-fitter-endurance-athletes_uk_5ae03af0e4b07560f396d5ee , I get what you're saying but it's an interesting piece of research anyway!

When assessing fitness and ability, don’t forget to factor in mental stamina.

Knocking out 150k on a road bike can be an easy option, knocking it flat chat for 40% then coasting for 40% then try to return to that flat chat mode for the remaining 20%.. can be mind blowingly numb.

I’m finding trail running difficult for the mental “push myself in the last 5k” BITD riding training rides or competing was fairly easy (or my memory has smothered the pain) but a lot of cycling is coasting/freewheeling but running is plain and simple.. you can’t coast, you can back off but if you stop running.. you stop.

Today for instance, long 15k blat around QECP same long loop I do, and I felt great until I tried to push myself (interval type 30sec hard climb) damn if my brain just gave up 🤪

Some folks have no “ah back off bloke” button, I do and it can be frustrating at times 🤩🤩🤩🥊

24-51 I windsurfed and kite surfed for a living. Then a gap and the biking hit. My peak then was about 5 years ag when I did nigh on a 40 mile commute over the Ridgeway with a few ascents and dscents on each way, now I'm at at about 50% on the aerobic side, upper body strength is problem lower than that. I have that hummingbird heart thing where massive rates are possible but the downside looks "interesting".

I think that that might depends on your measure of fitness!  https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/children-fitter-endurance-athletes_uk_5ae03af0e4b07560f396d5ee , I get what you’re saying but it’s an interesting piece of research anyway!

Yes, of course depends on your definition of fitness. Is my 14 y.o daughter fitter than me? We just did the 30 day burpee challenge, starting and ending with a 2 minute burpee test (max in 2 mins)

He starting score was 27, mine 24. After 30 days of various burpee sessions (some endurance, some speed, etc.) I retested at 31 (and in fairness it was straight after last Sunday's club run so I had 85k's in my legs) and she did 40.  Which is pretty good.

But we went out for a run in the week and she can't run a mile non-stop (I can do a 25 min 5k currently), she couldn't do a 3 hour bike ride and she can't do a full press up.

I just googled and found this..... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/07/fitness.healthandwellbeing which isn't a bad overall mixture of strength, aerobic and flexibility - I reckon I'd rate as good or excellent in all categories.

september/october 2014, was smashing everything, was flying, did too many slow miles over that winter commuting 20 miles each way in all weathers, lost the intensity, then bust my leg, and in 2016/2017 i didn't even do 20% of the 2014 mileage, 2018 is panning out similar

I think 7/10 but probably the truth is 6/10, I'm old now and using it as an excuse, I keep thinking you've got to get back in the gym, go pound the pavements, maybe do some yoga to loosen up, maybe that'll stop the injurys that keep dogging me.

I'm seventy and it's getting really tough to stay on point.

Take a week off, chill out, recover.

Yep, we've be talking about it here at camp BeMC, non of my ridings going well so I'll finish this and take some time out.

Probably as all round fit as ever at 35. Many years of rowing in my 20s balanced out by poor diet, then a few years of not much then 4 seasons road racing. Then decided ironman would be fun and have my first in 7 weeks, eek. Swimming 4k, running marathons for fun and lots of long rides. Maybe lost a bit of 1-5 min power on the bike, but 3kg lighter as well!

Probably about 2, compared to the eighties - hod carrier and a lot of weight training .

Currently only riding once a week compared to 3 times a week for 5/ 6 years so definitely a 2 .

Really hard to say...

Back in ~1990-1995, when I was 17-22, I was a sport fanatic. Racquet sports, football, taekwondo. I could play to a decent level at high intensity for hours. Cycling was simply a method of transport, not done for fitness. Typically 70-76Kg.

My fitness then slumped horribly over the next ~9 years and my weight went to ~90Kg, while I went through the darkest period of my life so far.

Then a brief ~9 month spell in 2004, where I lost ~7Kg and regained a fair bit of fitness using the gym aerobic machines with a bit of weights.

The gym then stopped and my fitness dropped again, before I had a bad lower back injury in 2008, which even made cycling as a form of transportation impossible at times, sports fitness was a non-starter.

Realised in summer 2016, now 42, I was heading in a direction that was going to send me to an early grave, ~95Kg and the biggest workout my body got was walking at work (delivering mail for up to five hours, three days a week)!

I then lost ~10Kg by January 2017 by changing my diet, reducing how much sweet and complex carbs I was consuming often in the evenings. Then I started cycling for fitness, discovered the South Downs and got addicted to hill climbing, dropping another ~10Kg to return to ~75Kg by late summer. Lower back started to feel the best it had been in years, the chronic pain began to subside.

I've put on ~3Kg over the extended winter, but Zwift on a Direto turbo kept my hill climbing fitness going until mid April. Since returning to outdoor cycling in the last ~6 weeks, I've hit new PBs for every cat3/4 climb I've revisited since last year, the only major local one left to visit is Harvesting Lane. I even improved my Longleat Safari cat4 time this morning on a lumpy ~13+Kg  hire bike by ~1min over my Wazoo time with 2.35" G-Ones (~11Kg) from last November, albeit I wasn't 100% healthy back in Nov.

I suspect the younger fitter me would be better at fitness cycling compared to now, but back then bikes were simply a cheap and practical way to get around Southampton. But since 1996, I'm currently at my best physically by a country mile.

9 or 9.5 out of 10, maybe?

Long way off it. When I was young I did Inverness to Carlisle in a day. Not sure of the distance and the roads have changed, but probably 250 miles, and with camping gear. (In a hurry, on way to hot girlfriend 🙂 ).

Last weekend I did 125 miles on Saturday, so I reckon I'm at basically half the fitness of my peak. I felt I still had a bit left in my legs though, so I may put that to the test in the next week or so. Maybe I need another hot girlfriend...

Interesting question. I’m 49 and have always been reasonably fit-  started with gymnastics as a kid, then over the years, running, squash, 5-a-side football, commuting by bike, circuit training, fell walking. Then had to quit most of those in my late 30s, thanks to a long-term back injury getting worse but that’s when I discovered MTB. I’ve done lots of MTB and road biking through my 40s so I feel like I’ve maintained myself steadily rather than having massive peaks and troughs.

I had a bad autumn and winter just gone, with depression and feeling exhausted, struggling to do more than 50 miles on a road bike. I’m gradually recovering some fitness, did a 100 mile road ride a few weeks ago and the 174km trans Cambrian MTB 2 weeks ago. Still some way to getting a bit more power back though.

Yep, we’ve be talking about it here at camp BeMC, non of my ridings going well so I’ll finish this and take some time out.

I use ithlete -  https://www.myithlete.com - a smartphone app to monitor recovery based on HRV levels. In very simple terms it's a more sophisticated version of checking resting heart rate and tells you how your recovery levels are plus makes basic training recommendations.

I've found it really useful for telling me when I'm metaphorically somewhere over the redline and need to back off. Conversely it'll tell you when you're really well recovered and ready for a more intense session. I've found it's generally right in my case and doesn't always correspond to my gut feeling.

It does mean you need to be flexible enough to sometimes change your planned session based on what an app tells you, but it's not a big deal if you think it through. If you have a coach, it's something you could raise with them I guess.

Anyway, generally, on the fitness front for me I'm arguably stronger on a bike than I've ever been. Significantly less running fit because I'm not running much. Useless at rock climbing because I no longer have any specific finger strength or basic coordination / motor learning. And core strength is pretty much consistent since I was about 15 thanks to a regular strength / resistance training habit.

There's a whole generation of 'middle-aged' people around these days who've been training and doing stuff for their entire lives and, I reckon, are maintaining higher levels of fitness into their 50s and 60s than previous generations. See 'Fast After 50' by Joe Friel if you're after advice/inspiration/explanations.

I’m 49 and am still relatively fit. I’m on the bike about 12-13 hours a week but I do notice that I don’t have the kick I used to have. I think  my peak was in my early thirties when I was often on the podium at mtb races in my age cat . I can ride for longer now than I used to be able to though so maybe the audax scene is calling. Maybe a 8/10.

I am 2 stone over my racing weight but even at 53 I can still run and cycle surprisingly well compared to almost everyone else my age (comparing myself to athletic types not your man in the street)

At my best I ran 32:20 10k, 15:48 5k and 25:55 for 5 miles. Love to break 30 mins for 5 miles now 🙁

Well off imo.

In terms of weight I’m roughly the same but I’ve just replaced muscle with flab.

Haven’t trained properly for just shy of a year according to diary and I’d put myself at around a 5/10 now.

Running wise I’ve lost a few minutes of my 5k but possibly more since I last did it. Can walk all day though, which is pretty much the only exercise I’m currently doing.

Strength has gone to pot though. Sedatiary job doesn’t help.

A quick ‘fitness’ test with my Polar watch just now shows I’ve gone from the ‘elite’ for my age group bracket to ‘moderate’.

Struggling for many reasons to find the motivation to restart training.

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Maybe a 4. Back in the 80s I could run 6 minute miles. When I did the Cuillin ridge in a day I left the tent in Glen Brittle at 6am and was fresh enough to jog the last 3 miles off the hill to catch the pub 16 hours later.

On the other hand while by average STW standards I'll be much below average I can still ride a bike for hours and walk in the mountains I'm probably fitter the the average 57yr old in the general population.

I appear to be fitter than my 30 years younger son on a bike. Nowhere near my best of about 4 years ago. I'm probably fitter than I ever was in my thirties but that's not saying much. At 55 with low risk prostate cancer very day is seized, though I no longer bounce as well as I used to.

About 6/10 - peak was 2008/2009, 21 Min 5k and 1:40 half marathon and 63kg .

Had a horrendous kidney in 2009 which knocked fitness, then daughter was born.

Life, kids and everything else got in the way.

Was up to 80kg before Christmas .

Now down to 74 and managing 25 Min 5k.

Getting fitter on the bike too .

Not even an echo of a shadow of a memory. Still having fun though

Impossible to say I think..

At 26 I was in the Royal Marines so awzum at climbing ropes and running around a lot so for that 10/10

At 40 I was racing XC  & getting top 10 finishes, another 9/10

AT 47 I've now a knackered shoulder & a dodgy knee, however I'm still racing & now mid-pack - maybe 8/10

I'm probably in good shape for my age....I hope....maybe 8/10??

To conclude: I'm not what I was!