Not sure if this counts but I got my first overuse injury at 36, despite running the least I have in my life. I have some mild plantar fasciitis that will not seem to heal 100%. I can get into decent shape by getting my miles up and doing some tempo work, but any kind of fast running (say, faster than 5k pace) knocks me out for a week plus.
I turn 65 on my next birthday. Depressed about it at first, but then I started getting the sales pitches for Medigap policies and Medicare Advantage featuring people with faces that look like they are 30 years old, but they have grey hair. All smiles. I felt better after seeing them.
When Foreman knocked out Moorer at age 45 to regain the title, old man strength was flying high. After the Tyson debacle on Friday, we're all ready for the nursing home.
Tyson's debacle will definitely make young hoodlums have even less fear of older guys, even jacked older guys.
Turning 20 was weird but I got used to it. The next few birthdays weren't bad until I hit 25, which is when I realized I had reached unc status. I'm turning 27 soon and the realization that I'm pushing 30 is kinda messing me up. This aging stuff is no joke. Does it get easier? Or does it just keep getting more depressing? Like does turning 30 hit harder than turning 20? Does 40 hit harder than 30? Etc. Or do you just accept it at some point
Always accept it. At fifty-one I ran a half in Oakland in which I swear I saw the Grim Reaper just behind me and gaining. Actually it was a kind of tubby guy that used to finish minutes behind me. I even felt it in my bones. I wasnt even performing at my usual third-tier level and I was all out. I wasnt exactly pleased or relieved to realize I had hit the skids, but really it wasnt so bad. It was not so bad thinking ahead to less competitive races and workouts--getting into the "avoiding injury and frustration" phase and just getting back to what brought me into this pleasant madness--fun and fitness. More years to be in that mode than the ego-crushing competitive years! Over thirty-five so far and looking forward to more effortless running! (Even if it is treading the mill.)
60 hit pretty hard, noticed loss of muscle, loss of energy , some days I get home from work with nothing left at all. As long as I get a run in every day and have my health I got no issues with Father Time.
Turning 30 hit pretty hard. My metabolism changed a lot and quite suddenly. Up to that point I could eat whatever and it didn’t make a lot of difference, but around that time it changed. I could really feel the impact of my diet in my energy levels. I also started to struggle with sleep more.
im in my mid 40s now and the changes since 30 have been more gradual. I have to be more focused around recovery, but the changes since 30 haven’t been as abrupt for me. Part of the change also came with more job responsibility and kids, but that’s only partly physical and more related to balancing time and stress.
I was in the military - and all through my 20s, it was a breeze for me. Ruck march for 15 miles, next day wake up and do more PT - easy, who cares.
Felt like every workout/event would build me up, vs take me down a notch.
by about age 30, i started to truly get SORE, and TIRED and for the first time really looked at myself in mirror and started seeing some aging. all through the 20s just felt like I more or less looked the same in the mirror.
since my 30s into my 40s, like a poster noted, its been a gradual decline that I more or less am ok with. but around turning 30, I truly felt like something physical had switched almost overnight.
I'm having grief at age 29, but at age 20, when I flunked out of college, kept living with my roomie on campus till the school forced me out, and kept a hotel room for the night before coming home with tail-tucked to my parents, and then proceeded to get run through by a dating app chick who was using me as a rebound -
I thought I was old and ailing THEN, at age 20. I wasn't. I actually had a growth spurt 8 months later, and even now, many things are still ahead of me.
people can still do amazing stuff. Kim Collins set a PR in the 100 meter at almost 40. The Kenyan legends are setting PRs and world records at 30+.
Every age seems to have involved trade-offs. Some things got more challenging or daunting, and some things became clearer and more managable. It's really hard to say which of these were that much harder than the others.
I don't know. It's not a question that I'm willing to get too wrapped up in.
Definitely 60 for me. I'm 64 & a mess. Bad skin (from decades of sun exposure), hair thinning, saggy neck skin, droopy ear lobes and a face that looks like a roadmap! 😯
Physique wise I'm falling apart. Testosterone levels are about half of what they were 35 yrs ago when I was a national class natural bodybuilding champion (not using TRT). My muscles are atrophying & I'm a shadow of my former self. And I have bad post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
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