Okay----Some alarming news on my f-book feed. One a the local; bike shops had an obit; the first of several by various biking enthusiasts. I did not know the gentleman, personally, but the guy apparently was well-known. Well, I always like to find out about these things. He was an avid cyclist, age 62, who went out for a ride, and died suddenly for medical reasons, as near as I can tell. Not in a collision or crash, from the sound of it. No hard facts given, but several of the jesus-freak religionist cyclers were commenting stuff like: "now he's biking with the lord" or some such crud. Apparently, superstition and magical thinking are the only thing permissible in polite conversation. But yeah---I looked on Strava, and wow! The guy has piled up a bunch of miles! Something like 6600 miles, this year; nearly 100,000 total since he got on Strava. . Lately, it's been breezy & cold--but he still got his miles in, every day.. I looked at his photo and the guy was VERY lean, and his leg muscles very developed. You could tell HE didn't go on any drive-n-eat excursions in I-wah! I don't know his medical history, either. Such as whether he'd had some underlying condition that he began cycling to overcome, either physical or psychological. But, it's my understanding that as you age, you require more recovery time after strenuous exercise; that you may be more impacted by cold weather hypothermia AND dehydration and electrolyte depletion. Something which may've caused him a cardiac episode, and maybe he did not get help, soon enough. That's my theory. I suppose people on the inside track will discuss the actual cause in hushed tones among themselves, but as one of the non-elites, I will have to settle for the mawkish platitudes and "the lord-called-him-home" type of stuff. Yup.