The riding position has the seat higher than the handlebars, which is fine if you want to go fast, but just gives the middle-aged cyclist backache after about a mile.

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Maybe it's just about all of us middle aged folks getting older ourselves.

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However, I can well imagine just such a Russian company thinking that it might be a good idea to offer middle aged businessmen the thrill of a candlelit dinner with a pretty dancing girl: nothing physical, just that enjoyable evening.

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Middle-aged men and women that just two minutes before seemed like they lived boring daily grind lives were laughing in joy like small children on Christmas morning.

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Droves of middle aged men anxiously waited on endless lines for hours just so they could catch a brief glimpse of their childhood heroes.

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For example, magazines for middle aged women might potentially be very profitable, but that is just not what they want to do, because they think concentrating on a clear set of consumers and products will help them do better.

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By now, he was a middle-aged man going on fifty, so the musically gifted child was just a sad memory.

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In continuing studies of obese, sedentary but otherwise healthy middle-aged women, Dr. Ekkekakis found that some individuals reach their ventilatory threshold after just one minute at a slow pace on a treadmill.

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There was another middle-aged boxer, and then he had a young shepherd mix stray dog that he had just taken on, and he was refusing to leave.

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