There is a plethora of posters over 45 on this board

My Take wrote:

I actually agree with the OP, and I'm over 45. But maybe it's just that we all flock to the threads on which we have something to say and which we won't hope won't degenerate too quickly.

Are you kidding? The over 45 crowd spends most of it's time opening up the jpg files in the "hotness" threads.

because most of us ran at a time when men were men. 100 mile weeks were the norm, making running a priority in our lives for a period of time (high school thru college or even club running) was important, we didn't make so many excuses like the young whiners on the board today. It was a different time. A tougher time. And because we have lived through the last 40 years and seen it all, we appreciate it for what it was. A Golden era to be sure.

I hear ya man, the younger crowd thinks that they're so computer saavy - and they are compared to most 40+ folks...but not to those of us who grew up with the industry.

Computers today are designed with OS's and GUI's so intuitive that a retard can operate, program, and network them. Try loading the Netbios, TCP/IP, SPX/IPX, SNA and DECnet stacks on a UNIX server and connecting your office workstations so that you can communicate with the "plethora" of emerging network operating system and protocol standards in the 1980's. You punk ass college kids plug a cat5 cable into a preconfigured router or connect via 802.11x and you think you're a fvcking computer whiz. Geezuz H, even try going back to the mid 90's and design your web page with Front Page or one of those programs.

The 40+ crowd are the top guns of the industry - you kids are flying on auto pilot thanks to the work done in the 1980's

Correct! I am over 70 and I do not know how to use a computer!

70s guy wrote:

because most of us ran at a time when men were men. 100 mile weeks were the norm, making running a priority in our lives for a period of time (high school thru college or even club running) was important, we didn't make so many excuses like the young whiners on the board today. It was a different time. A tougher time. And because we have lived through the last 40 years and seen it all, we appreciate it for what it was. A Golden era to be sure.

Back when Frank Soder was leading the US assault on distance records.

If that's a joke, I don't get it.

A lot of old guys can talk some pretty good smack on these boards. I bet much of the stuff that you assume is from a kid could be posted by someone your grandpa's age.

The other factor is that we don't have exams we have to cram for, we don't have young kids that need constant monitoring, we're not out every night.........but we do have time to post.

Yeah, instead of wasting time watching tube, doing homework, hanging out, and getting leg, we waste time reading and posting on this site.

One of the benefits, I suppose, of having spent 15-20 hours/wk on the The Sport when we were younger is that we're used to budgeting that much time for it. It's gonna be part of our week, one way or another, and most of us aren't putting in that much time on training, so this board is it.

My favorite collective noun for the group, though it's not restricted to the chronologically challenged, is "a grimace of joggers." Perhaps I should revise that to "a grimace of masters runners."

About the only thing we really have going for us, as near as I can tell, is that old farts generally smell okay.

the politics of contraband wrote:

I'm 47, was selling computer systems as DOS gave way to Windows and "open systems" were in their infancy. TCP/IP was just one of several protocols available and the internet was still a Department of Defense network.

In short, I've forgotten more about computers than any punk under the age of 35 will ever understand.

I'm 21 and I remember using DOS. Obviously not when it first came out, but I still used it. My dad (60) and grandpa (70+ I forgot how old he is) have been into computers for as long as I can remember. They definitely know a lot about them. Then there are other older adults I know that can't even figure out how to get online. Being able to use a computer doesn't indicate intelligence necessarily. People my age have been brought up using them, so its easy. Most adults aren't as familiar with them unless they are interested in learning. It's the same as learning a foreign language..if you are raised speaking both Spanish and English, you know Spanish better than someone who started learning it in high school or college.

A grimace of joggers?

how about

bag of old sneakers

or

gaggle of age award collectors

this is amusing, partly because there's some truth to it, but also because the older people get, the rougher they think their lives are compared to younger generations. no doubt today's younger generation will someday be telling their grandkids how they ran to school and home barefooted in sleet, uphill, both directions, with 50 lbs of books to carry without a book bag.

the solutions created help clear the way to a whole new "plethora" of problems waiting to be solved. difficult problems will always exist. they just happen to change as we make progress.

Observer of Nature wrote:

A grimace of joggers?

how about

bag of old sneakers

or

gaggle of age award collectors

For more alliteration (we old folk know these poetic terms):

a gaggle of geezers

an aggregate of age award amassers

Of course, "Council of Wise and Learned Elders" has its appeal, despite lacking the alliteration of the other suggestions. ;)

I read it everyday and trackshark everyday and dyestat everyday and hoosierauthority everyday.still run 60 mile weeks..and i'm over 50...

I wish we would have had these sites long ago.

I would not want to be young again...you guys got it tougher than we ever had it..with jobs and all that..

heck, I'll be retiring in 3 years..la-la-la.

Wouldn't want to go through it all over again....

Bart Simpson Rembrandt's eyes..

Simply handsome man :)

Here:

http://megaprirod.in/bart/image.jpg

I prefer to think of it is a "cornucopia"

dpmrunner wrote:

Observer of Nature wrote:

A grimace of joggers?

how about

bag of old sneakers

or

gaggle of age award collectors

For more alliteration (we old folk know these poetic terms):

a gaggle of geezers

an aggregate of age award amassers

Of course, "Council of Wise and Learned Elders" has its appeal, despite lacking the alliteration of the other suggestions. ;)

Clever post.

You should post more often.

Observer of Nature wrote:

Clever post.

You should post more often.

Thanks! I enjoy this thread! Kind of new to the board, but been jumping in on some threads of late. Compared to other boards, there's a wild west feeling about this one, but a lot of entertaining stuff too.

"Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?"

An ailment of Masters ?

A Slowing of Masters ?

An Age-grading of Masters?

A When-I-was of Masters?

mds

50+