How can I prevent the typical “runner’s oldface”

There wasn't anything that I could to do...so, I would say get used to it.

I'm 56 and easily get mistaken to be 65+ ? Just the other day I was interested in joining a new gym when the employee signed me up on the "Silver Sneakers" discount for seniors who are at least 65. When I told the very young looking employee that was about 10 years shy, she said embarrassingly "sorry sir...you look 65." ?

Sometimes I frightened myself looking at a mirror startled that it's some old man staring back at me. ? And I can't afford plastic surgery, facelifts and all that, so I try to wear more hats with the brim pushed lower over my face and sunglasses both outdoors & indoors. ?

Any chance that the key is low mileage, train hard 2 days a week max, never max out during training, don't over race etc etc. if I had to bet it would be mimicking the training and racing career of Bernard Lagat. He looks young and has managed to keep the spring in his legs.

Questions2 wrote:

Any chance that the key is low mileage, train hard 2 days a week max, never max out during training, don't over race etc etc. if I had to bet it would be mimicking the training and racing career of Bernard Lagat.

Bernard Lagat didn't do any of that, except (arguably) moderate mileage

Broken Down Old Stiff wrote:

There wasn't anything that I could to do...so, I would say get used to it.

I'm 56 and easily get mistaken to be 65+ ? Just the other day I was interested in joining a new gym when the employee signed me up on the "Silver Sneakers" discount for seniors who are at least 65. When I told the very young looking employee that was about 10 years shy, she said embarrassingly "sorry sir...you look 65." ?

Sometimes I frightened myself looking at a mirror startled that it's some old man staring back at me. ? And I can't afford plastic surgery, facelifts and all that, so I try to wear more hats with the brim pushed lower over my face and sunglasses both outdoors & indoors. ?

Are you a marathoner? Marathoners seem like they age poorly as a generality.

Kudos to you for your refreshing honesty. Most people usually kid themselves into thinking that they look young for their age. Runners and nonrunners alike.

Atlantic9 wrote:

Are you a marathoner? Marathoners seem like they age poorly as a generality.

Kudos to you for your refreshing honesty. Most people usually kid themselves into thinking that they look young for their age. Runners and nonrunners alike.

Lol, so true

I think genetics play a part on youthful looks, no?

@thanks for asking wrote:

Thanks for asking the big question wrote:

THE QUESTION WE WERE ALL THINKING ??????

How old ate you guys that you don't think a woman can look good after a couple of kids? If she looked good before, and she doesn't let herself go, she'll look good after.

Not true. A lot of women can never get back to a 9 or 10 after kids. They are still pretty but in a matronly way. I don’t know how his wife still is a knockout.

Hardloper wrote:

Questions2 wrote:

Any chance that the key is low mileage, train hard 2 days a week max, never max out during training, don't over race etc etc. if I had to bet it would be mimicking the training and racing career of Bernard Lagat.

Bernard Lagat didn't do any of that, except (arguably) moderate mileage

Perhaps someone else has a better reference on Lagats training to maintain longevity, and arguably the burned out old face. That 40-50 miles a week in the summer and the inclination that he obeys the Jack Daniel’s Easy, Tempo, Interval pacing for his fitness might go a long way in longevity and youthfulness. If his long run is 5:20, and his repeats/intervals with low rest are 25 sec 200’s with 1 min rest, my inclination given his race performance is that he wasn’t doing a lot of “maxing” out in training, just low rest smooth repeats and moderate tempo runs. I used to do 10 mile runs at 5:45 pace, tempos at 5:00 pace, and 200 ,400 repeats like that in the 30, 60 sec range and would burn myself out mid season many times as I was only a 4:15-4:20 mile, 15:20 5k guy

I think it is all relative. When I turned forty, I had lot of people in disbelief when I won the masters division. I’m still not gray, even though my 3 older brother were all gray before 40. I’m the only one that still runs and have been for 33 years.

So funny wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

Yea I'm sure if they ate guys they would literally look good afterwards. Canabolism will make them youth. That was me been witty btw. You said How old ate you guys.

lol the guy who has the worst spelling/grammar difficulties on the board tries to make a joke on someone's obvious typo.

Then in 31 words, goes on to:

- misspell cannabalism

- use the word 'literally' again (it's every third word he types)

- confuse the word "young" with "youth."

- misspell "being."

Being a grammar nazi stopped being cool a long time ago. It’s stale now. This is a running board, not a literature board. Most people know basic grammar, just let the idiots be idiots.

Peter North wrote:

You need to try some of my moisturizer. I give the best facials.

LOL. I see what you did there.

Works for Christy Canyon.

Jared Ward's wife looks like his sister. Gross. Typical of LDS.

There is nothing special or unique about Bernie's training. If you did tempos at 5K pace on the other hand then you are the abnormal one.