How many of you can truly say you're a runner till you die?

47yroldrunna wrote:

The Way We Were wrote:

You are too fixated on your injuries. Like most things in life, running injuries go away of you ignore them long enough. The best way to avoid future injuries is to ignore the current one.

If you get injured, just increase your mileage. You will get stronger and more injury resistant.

Are you being serious?

It worked for a prominent poster on this board and every runner he knows. So why wouldn't it work for anyone else?

The Way We Were wrote:

You are too fixated on your injuries. Like most things in life, running injuries go away of you ignore them long enough. The best way to avoid future injuries is to ignore the current one.

If you get injured, just increase your mileage. You will get stronger and more injury resistant.

I've seen your idiotic posts on several other injury-related threads. I'm sure you have it copied in your clipboard and paste it everytime you troll on an injury thread...who could have imagined (btw, it's getting old - don't you have any new material?).

I can imagine with a philosophy like yours, all the runners that have seen sports med/orthopedic specialities for ailments such as Achilles strains, meniscus tears, stress fractures, degenerative joint changes, etc., being told to "ignore" the injuries & "increase your mileage." 😅

Ran to school from when I was six. Started racing competitively at 13, still going at 60. Have had three different knee surgeries, but so far have got back to pretty decent form each time (ran a 3000m s/c pr at 32 after first one).

I keep thinking that there is a point - can't break 17:00 for 5k, can't break 18:00 - that I'd stop, but I've lowered the bar each time!

I am that guy too. I love running, never reached my potential, have been running for twenty some years, never get bored, cross train, never over train, get more excited about running every year and always learning and trying new things.

meee wrote:

I am that guy too. I love running, never reached my potential, have been running for twenty some years, never get bored, cross train, never over train, get more excited about running every year and always learning and trying new things.

You've got it right. I'm 77 and have been running competitively for more than 60 years. It grows more compelling as time passes, although I almost died last year, falling on rocks and severing my temporal artery during a downhill stint in a half-marathon on Mount Greylock (I was saved by two nurses behind me on the trail). I still race whenever I can and I don't see any reason to stop. It's as gratifying as ever. But I don't really recommend falling as a way to attract the manual ministrations of lovely nurses, though it worked for me.

Cavorty wrote:

Ran to school from when I was six. Started racing competitively at 13, still going at 60. Have had three different knee surgeries, but so far have got back to pretty decent form each time (ran a 3000m s/c pr at 32 after first one).

I keep thinking that there is a point - can't break 17:00 for 5k, can't break 18:00 - that I'd stop, but I've lowered the bar each time!

Keep lowering the bar. That means: be the age you are, but continue to have fun and, if possible (and fun), think competitively. Just keep having fun, and figure out how to do that.

It's a mystery, really.