Ex-runners who run really bad after a certain age ?

Old Runners understand that it's more important to stay healthy enough to run again tomorrow than it is to run fast again today.

Bolt barely broke 10 seconds in the final of the 2017 WC. At just 30 years old.

And Bolt realised he couldn't catch journeyman Brit, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake in the 2017 WC relay final & conveniently pulled up. At just 30 years old.

I was a state champion BMX racer in 1978, and won state XC five years later. Can I do either now? No.

But I run a few miles a few times a week, and many I competed against are fat, hobbling around or dead.

That okay with you?

The chances that this guy is on T are pretty high.

eh once u are no longer competing up front it all seems silly.

Do you have his address?

I had a friend who was an NCAA II Champion. We were born about six months apart. When I started racing him age about 38, he was a fair bit better than me - he'd been a 4:01 miler and I was 4:20.

We both continued racing, and by the time we were mid-40s, I was only around 8 seconds slower at a mile (he was still good enough to make third in USATF Masters over a mile indoors in his 40s).

As we entered our 50s I started to be able to keep up with, and then start to push him in training, and eventually I could beat him.

Obviously, his natural talent was higher than mine, although I might have been a bit closer had I, like him, run collegiality in the U.S., rather than doing a demanding full-time job in England.

I think, though, it was just a case of one us genetically aging faster. My sister was quite a good club runner in England, but as a Master living over here has won several US titles and even one World Indoor, so I would tend to put at least some of the difference down to different genetic rates of aging.

If you travel to Viseu, a Portuguese interior town, a few hours by bus from Oporto (Porto), go to the part of Viseu called "Vildemoinhos"....about 15 minutes walk from the town centre, going down a steep hill.

Once there go to "Lusitano Futebol Clube de Vildemoinhos" ....this is the football club where Carlos started his athletics career.

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Lusitano Futebol Clube de Vildemoinhos is a Portuguese football club from the parish of Vildemoinhos in the city of Viseu. The club was founded on 14 August 1916 and plays in fifth tier of the Portuguese football league syste...

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I went there last year to research a biography about Lopes. The people in Vildemoinhos will show you where his sister lives, close to the club. His sister is reticent in nature, so you'll get more info from the club. I spoke with her for about 10 minutes....but could tell she was a private person. The locals in Vildemoinhos confirmed all of this. There's a statue in this part of town in honour of Lopes. Ironically not many youth in the city of Viseu are into running or know much about Carlos Lopes - he's almost like a secret figure.

I spent 10 days in Viseu, last year researching Lopes's early life, but the Portuguese are very quiet in nature, so you won't get tons of info. The Lopes family are very private people.

Lastly, Carlos lives in Lisbon, far from Viseu, and rarely visits his hometown. He has significant health problems, and he's almost 78 years old.

Your best bet to contact Carlos Lopes is to go through the football club.

If you stay in Viseu, Portugal, I recommend Hotel Bela Vista, €40-€50 per night. Excellent Portuguese breakfast, with all kinds of breads, cheese, ham, cereals, etc. Unlimited buffet. Will keep you full all day.

The hotel is located about 1 mile from the Viseu bus station, up the hill. Good vibes.

Its called AGING.....and is there still any motivation when the PRs are LONG GONE !

You need to practice semen retention and daily flossing

Urologists advise men to do the opposite of what you advocate, with regard to s.r. Urologists claim that s.r. may have a correlation to prostate cancer.

M66 here: I've run “pretty bad” since age 19. I was 15:4X in 5K, 4:24 in the mile. Had a bunch of injuries, took time off and managed to get back to 18:47 in the 5K at age 50. Now I jog a few miles every other day.

In my particular case it has been a nearly constant string of injuries through the 80’s 90’s and all the way up to now. So, is my injury-prone-ness genetic? Maybe.

Here’s a list of some of my “favorite” injuries:
1) Left foot PF 5+ times
2) Left foot (top, arch) 3 or 4 times
3) Right knee, off and on for 30 years
4) Left Achilles, x2
5) Pes anserine bursitis behind right knee x1 thankfully (that one sucked)
6) Calf pulls, both, multiple times, lost count.
7) Posterior tib, 1x that one sucked too.
8) Both hip flexors, x2,
9) Right heel, 2 years off
10) Right foot (top) multiple times.
11) Left knee, only started in my 60’s.
12) Right foot PF 3 or 4 times.

Somehow or other I have been (barely) smart enough to not damage myself to the degree that I need surgery. I just quit when I get injured rather than push through it.
I’m almost an Ex-runner, but not quite.

If you can run a mile without stopping at age 63, you are doing great. 20% of American males are already dead at 63.

And this is part of the reason that you do what you do.

Well if they are dead are they considered Americans?

Amen

no comprendhende.

dont do that.

go for 2 mile hikes, or bike rides or walks and eat tight forever, and chase young women.