As we enter 2017 many have made new years resolutions for various ideas that are seldom ever kept, but as we get older, one has to remember that age is only a number.

The past century our Grandparents (the older ones) have seem numerous things that have changed not only their way of life, but the world in general.

I remember being told by my Father that you can do what you want if you set your mind to it and remembering that logic, it brings me to think of Robert Marchand.

He was the gentleman that was told over a century ago that he should give up cycling as he would never achieve anything on a bike.

Well to prove everyone wrong, he’s still going at the young age of 105 and he alone set a world record in his age category.

At the young age of 105-year-old he set a world record in the 105-plus age category, which was created especially for the veteran, in which he rode 14 miles (22.547 kilometers) in one hour.

In the past he had ridden faster on the boards of the Velodrome National, a state of the art venue used to host the elite of track cycling, but was warned before his latest attempt that his current form apparently was not as good.

A short three-years ago while at the same venue he traveled 26.927 kilometers (16.7 miles) in one hour to better his own world record in the 100+ category.

He is a former firefighter and was born in 1911 in the northern town of Amiens and lived through two world wars, where he at one point moved to Canada and became a lumberjack for a short while.

He lives in a small flat in a Parisian suburb on a small but meager pension of about 900 euros ($940) and keeps pedaling every day.

He is only 1.52 meters (5-foot) tall and weighs 52 kilograms (115 pounds) and it’s reported that he rode from Bordeaux to Paris, and Paris to Roubaix several times.

He also cycled to Moscow from Paris in 1992 and a short ten years later, he set the record for someone over the age of 100 riding 100 kilometers (62 miles).

At his age, he’s not making any plans for future events.

Congrats to him as he has done what many young persons will never achieve.

Now if only today’s youth COULD GET OFF THE PHONE??