1. Fitness is like the stock market, you take the stairs on the way up and the elevator on the way down. Took me a long time to understand that consistency month to month and year to year with slowly increasing loads and not too many zeros is what drives performance, not a quicky 4 week training plan. It takes a long time to build but very short period of time to lose. So, I am much more risk adverse on the bike keeping speeds down and staying off gravel on my narrow tired road bike.
2. Don't like group rides anymore, used to like them.
3. Used to love watching the Pros but Lance aka negative 7 ruined that for me. I hate to think they are all doped up but that is what I think
4. I dream more about touring far away places whereas in the past decades, I would just go. I dream about cycling Sri Lanka, India, NZ again.
5. I stop on training rides now and sometimes even take a photo to send to my wife.