Life gets better as you get older

The big 4 zero I'll be a hero

Forty one I'm having fun

Forty two I won't feel blue

Forty three I'll be free

Forty four, I want more!

45 you'll be barely alive.

Alive ah ah ah alive wrote:

45 you'll be barely alive.

I'll be in full drive.

45 and we took a dive.

46 for the fix.

You know what i'm talking about.

seattle prattle wrote:

45 and we took a dive.

46 for the fix.

You know what i'm talking about.

Not exactly.. Don't do anything for a fix, get high on life! or from a runners high!

Get your high's naturally is what I mean

Greg wrote:

seattle prattle wrote:

45 and we took a dive.

46 for the fix.

You know what i'm talking about.

Not exactly.. Don't do anything for a fix, get high on life! or from a runners high!

Get your high's naturally is what I mean

Sorry, that's more of a reference that US folks might pick up on.

Nothing to do with drugs.

seattle prattle wrote:

Greg wrote:

Not exactly.. Don't do anything for a fix, get high on life! or from a runners high!

Get your high's naturally is what I mean

Sorry, that's more of a reference that US folks might pick up on.

Nothing to do with drugs.

WW2 reference? I don't know what it is.

how about I'll disclose it if no one figures it out by the morning, and we will be biding out time until then,

Thank-you for the hint, you are referring to the presidential situation.

Greg wrote:

seattle prattle wrote:

Sorry, that's more of a reference that US folks might pick up on.

Nothing to do with drugs.

WW2 reference? I don't know what it is.

45th Pres - Trump (actually 44th man to hold office since Grover Cleveland served nonconsecutive terms and is generally counted twice)

46th Pres - Biden

Don’t know why he had to make something so innocent political, though.

I reckon by fifty you’ll be feeling nifty.

None of this is true. I don’t know how many of you young people have seen the movie Office Space, but I’m constantly thinking of this quote.. “ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me is the worst day of my life”. I’ll be 39 next month and it’s awful. I’ll take the time to break it all down if you insist, but it’ll be an ugly picture I paint.

To a certain point it's get better. For me at the ripe old age of 59, things aren't so fine in terms of running. After 50, things start falling apart - and rather rapidly for some people. My first major injury sustained (Achilles tendon) was during a track mile at an all-comer's meet shortly after 50th B-day. Over the next 5 yrs, I sustained a completely ruptured PTT as well OA developing in three joints. ?Now at 59, I'm hardly able to run anymore. I've known many other runners that I competed against and trained with back in my 40s who facing a similar fate in their 50s. Go check out the Grandmasters thread here and see for yourself some of the debilitating injuries aging runners are suffering.

Too many negative things happen to the body in your 50s. Hormone levels, especially the magic male hormone testosterone, starts dropping precipitously every year. Your cardiovascular system starts declining every year, your digestive system doesn't function as well either. Wrinkles, bags under the eyes, bad skin, etc. all start to develop after 50. You look at yourself in the mirror and say; "WTF...what's going on here!"

Many of us in our middle-age may have our sh*t together - finances are in order, kids were raised properly and are off to college, marraige went well, retirement is now in sight, etc. - but the thing that we were so passionate about is slowly but surely discenergrating right before our eyes.

Young men enjoy your youth in your 30s & 40s because things really go south in your 50s! ?

Greg, you have not many years left to run a good Marathon.

Here is your chance.

https://www.events.runningroom.com/training/

https://www.edmontonmarathon.ca/

Here's my take wrote:

discenergrating

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Oh no, it’s the precipitous post-50 spelling decline!

Edmonton marathon promoter wrote:

Greg, you have not many years left to run a good Marathon.

Here is your chance.

https://www.events.runningroom.com/training/https://www.edmontonmarathon.ca/

They announced months ago that the Edmonton marathon is virtual this summer. Trust me, up in Canada we are waiting for the border to open so we can run some f*king races that aren’t imaginary.

Canada Rnr wrote:

They announced months ago that the Edmonton marathon is virtual this summer. Trust me, up in Canada we are waiting for the border to open so we can run some f*king races that aren’t imaginary.

I know. But that gives Greg enough time to train for his sub 2:50 attempt.

We love to see one of ours in the top of the field.