Is 44 to old to be letting running be your life?

Hjkk wrote:

Anyone know.Where all you do is run and work and run.

Look at Hell Grabmosaladassi!!! He ran a 2:04 marathon at age 44.

Is 44 to old to let running be in your life? What do you think>

Apostrophe Crime's wrote:

pretzel man wrote:

Lot's of people go through life never finding anything, if you like running "Just Do It"

"Lot is of people go through life"? WTF are you talking about?

You don't get it ? Okay F.O.A.D. Get that?

No. Are you a regular age group winner?

I'd start thinking about saving your joints and hips, with

swimming or cycling as back ups. Maybe some water aerobics.

Lifelong, health and fitness.

I'm 46. I'll never set a World or American record. I have run since middle school and love it. I love the solo time, goal setting, being fit, seeing things most people never see. I run 5 or 6 days most weeks. I think about it often and work it into my day, but not the other way around.

I have kids. I do many of my runs after they go to bed at 8pm, then eat my dinner at 9:30 or 10:00pm (I sit and have a snack at family dinner time). Family always takes priority, and work is #2, running is #3 unless I am really pissed about work (not often).

Being healthy and strong has allowed me to keep up with my kids playing. I see a lot of parents much younger than me who cannot.

I have never been a "sportsball" fan as someone else put it, so no wasted time there.

I used to be a guy with constant hobbies and travel. Now I focus on just a few things (family, career, running). I'm just as happy, but I have to schedule things and work around things to run consistently. It works. My family is happy (my wife digs me being fit, so do the kids). I'm teaching my kids good habits that will last them their whole life, just as my father did when he would take me to the track as a kid and we "played" track and field while he got in a few miles on the track and he could watch us, then joined us. It is hard for me to see the negatives of this lifestyle, but I also don't believe I am obsessed to the point of neglecting anything else.

I agree that at 44 running should not be your life... It is in my opinion a waste of your life and time. And I will probably think less of you for being a loser unless you are making an income from running.

That said, I also agree that you can do whatever makes you happiest in life. Some people waste their lives with running and other waste their lives with cocaine addictions.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

I agree that at 44 running should not be your life... It is in my opinion a waste of your life and time. And I will probably think less of you for being a loser unless you are making an income from running.

That said, I also agree that you can do whatever makes you happiest in life. Some people waste their lives with running and other waste their lives with cocaine addictions.

I prefer spending hours a week commuting in traffic to a job I need to pay for my house, which I hardly spend time in because I'm too busy commuting and working to pay for garbage I don't need then running.

Hjkk wrote:

Anyone know.Where all you do is run and work and run.

You are 100% unbalanced. Running can be a part of your life, find other things things to do and other ways to keep fitness. Don't run everyday!

Take class and learn something.

Life is very short to be stuck on just one track, excuse the pun.

Hjkk wrote:

Anyone know.Where all you do is run and work and run.

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This endith the lesson!

I see nothing wrong with it. As others have said, there are plenty of people with no real passion for anything. The question you should ask yourself is what will you do after running, and does running being your life now keep you from having a life after. Will you be miserable because you have nothing else?

In all likelihood you won't be running much in 10 or 15 years, even if you wanted to. I'm 51 and the folks I was running with at 44 are rapidly disappearing due to injuries or just wear and tear on their bodies. I had meniscus surgery a few years ago and now can't do more than 20 miles a week without getting into trouble (down from 60-90). I switched to mostly cycling, which is also nice but not the same. The mental transition was painful. I am glad I also love my job and wife and kids, which will be around for longer.

gloria wrote:

No. Are you a regular age group winner?

I'd start thinking about saving your joints and hips, with

swimming or cycling as back ups. Maybe some water aerobics.

Lifelong, health and fitness.

yeah, Ed's in a wheelchair from all that running....

Oops, he actually beat my marathon time from my 20's. Next.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

quality control wrote:

I hear this a lot and always wonder what it means exactly, "spending time with my family".

There are two common scenarios.

1. An excuse that a driven person uses when they are being publicly fired/shamed out of a job. This scenario is a shameless excuse.

2. Being around to do stuff. In this scenario, you are "there." Cooking, cleaning, helping with homework, talking. The thing with kids is you can't "schedule quality time." It doesn't work that way. Doing the ordinary stuff of life with a kid nearby, engaged or otherwise. Electronics cut into this if there isn't strict usage.

It's out of these ordinary, shared, moments comes meaningful stuff that kids carry with them into adulthood. You can't plan them like a meeting and you never know what it is.

#2 is exactly right. My children are 4 and 5. Scheduling quality time doesn't work. It's being around them for the "boring" stuff. All the little life lessons you don't necessarily think about. They get imprinted on them. They remember. I catch my kids imitating some of my behavior I never intended them to copy good and bad. If you are not around to be that influence who will be? I can focus on some sort of crazy time consuming running plan when they are grown. For now I run for fun and to stay fit. That is good enough.

If you've been single all your life and have never had any money or solidified job and people think you're weird, then you need to reevaluate why running is your life. That's running bum epitome.

DESMOINES1 wrote:

If you've been single all your life and have never had any money or solidified job and people think you're weird, then you need to reevaluate why running is your life. That's running bum epitome.

I'd rather be a running bum than a corporate bum/whore

Hjkk wrote:

I don't get off of work till 9:15 pm and it's been a very hard day.Its my wife's birthday. Do I spend time with her or run 5 later?Do I just do the double Thursday?This is a small example.

Jeebus, spend less time on LRC and maybe you could get home at a decent time. I always wonder about people who tell me they work 12+ hr days. Then I see them work and I understand why. Learn to be more efficient. I walk out of meetings as soon as I realize they're pointless. I don't go on social media at work. I don't go on message boards to get life advice from functionally illiterate deviants.

I do have to put in 16hr days at times, but If that became the norm I'd definitely have a long talk with my boss. I do my job and leave at a reasonable hour and I don't feel guilty about it. And sometimes I take a lunch run and stay later. People don't notice you missing in the middle of the day, but they definitely take notice of when you show up and leave.

And yes, leave early and do something nice for your wife. Getting a new job is cheaper than a divorce. I do realize this was just a hypothetical situation, but when you set priorities in your life e.g. your family or running, you learn to work around the less important aspects of life.

I'm now in my mid-50's. I've been running anywhere from 35-65 mpw since my early 40's (and I'm an ex-D1 runner). I typically run very early in the morning around 5:30 or 6:00 am. Sometimes, I think that running early in the morning has caused me to sacrifice too much time with my kids because I go to sleep early and miss some late night bonding opportunities etc... However, I've since learned that my kids observed my dedication and have taken it to heart - knowing that they can show the same dedication to their passions. So, through my running, I was teaching my kids a lesson without even realizing it.

Good point.I mean 2 runs a day everyday is hard to do.

Who would you rather be a loser making 12k a year living with your mom running 25 minutes for 5 miles or making 100k and running 28 minutes for 8k?

I don't think it's mutually exclusive. Just wake up earlier and use it as time to think. Most kids sleep longer than adults. After many years it just becomes habit and the recovery on most days can be pretty quick.