What a lovely article, thanks for sharing it. I think you'll find he kept up the average pace of 14mph for 100K or 62 miles, which at 100 years old is pretty amazing. I'm sad to say, it's probably as fast as I could do it if not better.

I regularly ride with people older than I am and often have difficulties keeping up with them especially on hill climbs - although today I got my own back on two of them, outclimbing them on a local hill - my average speed about 3-4mph, mind you it's a horrible hill about a mile or so long and like many round here get's steeper as it rises.

The first time I got over it, I was 'talked' over it by a friend who was about seventy six or seven then and I've done the same with other riders who have less confidence than I.

It's wonderful to see that people of retirement plus ages are now doing all sorts of things, sports, travel and learning a musical instrument or language - whereas fifty years ago they'd be expected to act elderly and die.

This is the case in the developed nations, we are living longer and staying fitter, especially if we lose weight. Sadly it isn't the case in the third world where achieving adult status is sometimes considered a minor miracle.