For your own good
How do you feel at 35, 45, 55, 65???? Getting slower inevitable????
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At that rate you'll be lucky to still be alive at 70. Or your knees will be shot. Always wondered why people continue to gain weight even if they know they dont have to and it may kill them if they dont get it under control. Death wish?
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Point taken
I'm 6'1" and a big build. In my 20s, I was very thin at 170. I don't look overweight at 212, but it sure slows down my running. I'm aiming to get back down to 200, but easier said than done. -
Turned 68 in January. Running since a soph in HS (shitty!). In the 80's ran a lot of 90+ weeks with a lot of hills...ran all my miles hard. Nagging injuries started popping up in the late 90's, mileage dropped off along with effort and pace.
Bought a treadmill and 2010 and it's been great for getting back into it. Soft surface, controlled pace,up-hill workouts w/o the downhill pounding. Now I run about 80% of my miles on the TM, and the rest on gravel or paved roads. On roads, I never run anything shorter at pace than 600's. On the TM, I do a lot of 1K repeats at 92%-95% Max HR, as well as 30-40 minute tempos in the 7:45
pace range. Also do cadence work on the TM with a metronome. Injuries have been kept at a minimum since I got the TM, and am now averaging about 40-45 running miles a week. Take off one or 2 days a month. This weekend I ran my 1st race of the year and broke 22:00 in a local 5K under rainy/windy conditions so I'm pretty pleased about that. I understand that 22:00 is a HJ time to some on this board, but it's one Hell of an effort for an old fart like myself (pats self on back). -
last december I set my PB at HM with 1:13 with 36. And I know that I can improve that if I manage to train consistently again.
2 weeks ago I run a 10 k where a 51 year old guy was aiming for the world record of his age group. He finished with 31'43. He was very good when young and he came back some years ago. -
Kgpremed12 wrote:
Getting slower inevitable????
No!!!! It is not inevitable!!!! Only the weak-minded slow down!!!! -
I posted on the first page about a year ago, saying I'd run a bunch of pr's at 39/40 and been in great shape at 43 but no pr's in races then. I went on to nail four pr's at 45 in the latter half of the year. Decline's inevitable but can be reversed unless you were very good and healthy when you were young.
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Kgpremed12 wrote:
Im just wondering how people feel at these ages and how their priorities and perspectives change as they get older?
Im 26 now, and I feel my body is starting to age. I try to exercise everyday to keep myself in shape. I need longer to recover from hard workouts, I need to stretch more, warm ups take longer, injuries take longer to heal, it sucks. when I was 21, I could just get up and go. I hope it doesnt get much worse.
You feel old at 26? LOL. You literally have NO idea. I set most of my lifetime PRs within a couple years of 26. I maintained near that level through my early 30s, gradually slowed through my mid 30s, then totally fell off the cliff as I moved past 35. Today, late 30s, I'm a full 4 minutes slower for 5k than my prime. Like someone else said, 7 minute pace today feels exactly like 5:30 pace did back in the day.
I've seen so many friends have to stop running alltogether due to permanent injury, that I promised myself as long as I could still run, I'd be thankful, no matter how slow. I consider every slow mile a blessing. I've actually outlasted most of the guys who used to beat me in my 20s; they're no longer running. -
I'm 55. There was a big drop off for me from late 40s to now. I'm more prone to injury and cannot hammer a workout without a much longer recovery afterward. I need more sleep and I have to watch my diet.
Sure I'm not as fast or as strong when I was in my 20s but here's the cool part:
It's just as much fun!!! -
jjjjjj wrote:
I posted on the first page about a year ago, saying I'd run a bunch of pr's at 39/40 and been in great shape at 43 but no pr's in races then. I went on to nail four pr's at 45 in the latter half of the year. Decline's inevitable but can be reversed unless you were very good and healthy when you were young.
nice - way to go.
I've been speeding up a little at 47 - setting masters PRs at most distances this year and last year.
had a funny workout last night tho - we were supposed to do 800/300, with the 300 at close to mile pace - I ran pretty much all out to hit 58s - basically 5:08 pace. I can't imagine running sub 5 at this point. But I can run 5k in 17:15 - 5:30 pace. The top end is just gone, but I can maintain pace really well. I'll take that. -
13:42 @ age 27
16:59 @ age 55
Feels about the same, maybe the watch is lying.
