Pace, you were kidding, right? That first flight I took at the age of 50 was in 1983, so the 3,000 hours experience took a bit longer than ten years.
I was yakking in the clubhouse a while back, and a visiting glider pilot came in and said "MARY! don't tell me they are still letting you instruct?!"
"Why not?" I answered.
"Aren't you approaching 70?" he enquired?
"Nope," I answered...."its getting further away all the time....."