Why can't some people grow up?

So if you saw Dr. Dre in the VIP section at a club would you go up to him and tell him to grow up?

why do you care? if he's happy running and hitting the bars, what difference does it make in your life? if that's what you don't want to be, then take a different road but leave the guy alone...

Forgive him for not crawling into a dark, lonely hole of solitary confinement like all good old people should.

I thought sure this thread would concern the numbnutz soiling himself all over the "Lydiard anaerobic phase" thread.

dkerr wrote:

There is a guy who is 42 yrs old who still hangs around people in their mid20s. He runs ok for a guy his age and can keep up with our training group which is a pack of guys in their mid 20s. He doesn't seem to have grown up at all. He still rents out a small apartment, does the bars, still does the club scene to hit on girls sometimes half his age. He is an example of what I do NOT want to be by the time I hit 35 yrs old.

My question is how come some people can't act their age? Why do some people live in a time warp?

You have seen YOUR future.

And yes, Christmas Day has passed by. It cannot be changed.

dkerr wrote:

There is a guy who is 42 yrs old who still hangs around people in their mid20s. He runs ok for a guy his age and can keep up with our training group which is a pack of guys in their mid 20s.

What I would be more concerned about if I were you is that your training group (and YOU) are so bad that a guy TWENTY YEARS OLDER THAN YOU can still keep up.

Lem Me Sea wrote:

dkerr wrote:

There is a guy who is 42 yrs old who still hangs around people in their mid20s. He runs ok for a guy his age and can keep up with our training group which is a pack of guys in their mid 20s.

What I would be more concerned about if I were you is that your training group (and YOU) are so bad that a guy TWENTY YEARS OLDER THAN YOU can still keep up.

And still have plenty of strength left to chase young girls and hit the bars!

Long live the Beastie Boys!

Be cause they can't, they won't, and they don't stop!

I'm 20 and went out with a group of 35-40 year olds this past weekend and had a blast. I think getting old is really just a state of mind you fall into. They were getting bottle service and smoking weed while being successful wall streeters.

...because 40 year old single women are also at the bars.

Alan

traxor wrote:

I'm 20 and went out with a group of 35-40 year olds this past weekend and had a blast. I think getting old is really just a state of mind you fall into. They were getting bottle service and smoking weed while being successful wall streeters.

I agree. I have friends of all different ages, most of them older than me. In fact, I hang out with 30+ people more often than other college kids these days. I must say, they throw better parties.

Training with the guys, going to bars, and hitting on hot chicks is fun. That doesn't change just because a few years have gone by.

This guy has no car and bums rides off of us. He still rents and lives in a small crappy apartment. He has a loser job. He doesn't have money to party. He's 42 year old that has the peter pan syndrome. Of course guys who are 35-40 or anyone at any age is going to be cool to hangout with if they have money to shell out at a bar and buy everyone drinks. The point I'm making is that this guy is unsuccessful and a loser in life and an example that if the only thing we focus on is running instead of our careers, that we will end up like him. Who wants that?

traxor wrote:

I'm 20 and went out with a group of 35-40 year olds this past weekend and had a blast. I think getting old is really just a state of mind you fall into. They were getting bottle service and smoking weed while being successful wall streeters.

dkerr wrote:

This guy has no car and bums rides off of us. He still rents and lives in a small crappy apartment. He has a loser job. He doesn't have money to party. He's 42 year old that has the peter pan syndrome.

Of course guys who are 35-40 or anyone at any age is going to be cool to hangout with if they have money to shell out at a bar and buy everyone drinks.

The point I'm making is that this guy is unsuccessful and a loser in life and an example that if the only thing we focus on is running instead of our careers, that we will end up like him. Who wants that?

So what you are saying is that a guy who is 20 years older than you, faster than you and has a smaller carbon footprint is a loser that you hang with.

That said, you would be happier if he had more money so he could buy you drinks because you can't afford them.

I think we are beginning to see who the loser is.

Lem Me Sea wrote:

So what you are saying is that a guy who is 20 years older than you, faster than you and has a smaller carbon footprint is a loser that you hang with.

That said, you would be happier if he had more money so he could buy you drinks because you can't afford them.

I think we are beginning to see who the loser is.

I think the OP was pointing out that he wants to be successful in life.

Success = Good Career = $$$ = Not ending up like a 42 old guy with no car, creepy rental apt, with no money to buy his younger friends drinks

I'm the real dkerr and I didn't write that message but I'll agree.

dkerr wrote:

I think the OP was pointing out that he wants to be successful in life.

Success = Good Career = $$$ = Not ending up like a 42 old guy with no car, creepy rental apt, with no money to buy his younger friends drinks

Sounds like this guy is also doing your sister. Don't worry, it just a phase and he'll break out of it in a few dozen years. Would you be happier if this guy was doing your mother? (or perhaps, your daughter?)

Where I run it is mostly middle aged guys 35-50 and a few decent younger runners. We will go out for a beer at least once a week after we run. Mostly its the younger guys hanging out with us than vice versa. Occasionally I'll go wakeboarding with the youngsters and I'm sure I'm the weird old guy at first but usually by the end I'm dragging one of the college chicks home with me.

dkerr wrote:Success = Good Career = $$$ = Not ending up like a 42 old guy with no car, creepy rental apt, with no money to buy his younger friends drinks

And that is your definition of success.