Do you feel old?

kev · 2025-12-01T12:33:03+0000

COYBL25 said:
Nearer to sixty than 50, still running close on 2000 miles a year, done 9 off road half marathons this year.

The difference is in my twenties, I ran a lot faster and could sustain the pace, now I just plod along and it takes me a full week to recover from a race, rather than a couple of days like it used to.

Also my tolerance to ale has massively reduced with age and the hangovers seems to last for days, as a result if there`s nothing in pub I want to drink ( no real ale ), I`ll happily drink soft drinks.

I'm 71 and doubt that I've run 2,000 miles in my life :lol:

jazzy · 2025-12-01T12:39:26+0000

Rita_Poon said:
Thread 'THE GYM THREAD'

June 15, 2022

And swole bros and sisters out there that enjoying lifting heavy equipment in a methodical way to look ? when climates permit limited clothing?

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Forum: The Ale House

COYBL25 said:
Nearer to sixty than 50, still running close on 2000 miles a year, done 9 off road half marathons this year.

The difference is in my twenties, I ran a lot faster and could sustain the pace, now I just plod along and it takes me a full week to recover from a race, rather than a couple of days like it used to.

Also my tolerance to ale has massively reduced with age and the hangovers seems to last for days, as a result if there`s nothing in pub I want to drink ( no real ale ), I`ll happily drink soft drinks.

Wish I could run. Marathons ( no not Snicker variety RP ) in my youth have done my Achilles in - one snapped the other strained - so I don't even bother trying to run nowadays.

Incline walking at a decent pace works for me on the treadmill.

Rita_Poon · 2025-12-01T12:40:59+0000

jazzy said:
Wish I could run. Marathons ( no not Snicker variety RP ) in my youth have done my Achilles in - one snapped the other strained

I believe that's not one of the nicer injuries, how did you snap it? Lifting a Steinway piano solo?

COYBL25 · 2025-12-01T12:43:14+0000

kev said:
I'm 71 and doubt that I've run 2,000 miles in my life

I think @blueloon is in his early seventies and I`d put money on he`s running more than 2000 miles a year !

jazzy · 2025-12-01T12:44:41+0000

Rita_Poon said:
I believe that's not one of the nicer injuries, how did you snap it? Lifting a Steinway piano solo?

Ridiculous actually. I was playing table tennis and my opponent hit the ball off . I turned around to pick it up and heard a loud bang.
I thought the table had collapsed looked back and then fell over because I could put any weight on my left ankle.

The subsequent pain was incredible.

Rehab took me 9 months before I could play. It will never be the same. Even now 8 years later the Achilles is twice as thick as the other.

Gwladys St. Glory · 2025-12-01T12:47:45+0000

Used to feel younger than 50 and I should feel worse nowadays I s'pose but no use feeling sorry for yourself, plenty others are genuinely worse off than me. Some days I get my a$$ kicked but looking forward to that lessening once I get a transplant. Some days feel a bit doomy, knowing my life's now been shortened but I'll probably outlive my dad and possibly one grandfather so I can't mope too much. Sucks when the head is willing but the body isn't, especially when your first half century was, health-wise, exemplary. So, do I feel old? Physically, yes but not mentally and that's a struggle as the two states of being don't mix well for a man.

Rita_Poon · 2025-12-01T12:49:13+0000

jazzy said:
Ridiculous actually. I was playing table tennis and my opponent hit the ball off . I turned around to pick it up and heard a loud bang.
I thought the table had collapsed looked back and then fell over because I could put any weight on my left ankle.

The subsequent pain was incredible.

Rehab took me 9 months before I could play. It will never be the same. Even now 8 years later the Achilles is twice as thick as the other.

Picking up the lightest ball in sport cost you an achilles. Or was it the turn, did you twist and not move your feet so a spiral effect on the tendon? I've seen spiral fractures in tibia x-rays is why I ask, 'spiral/helical fracture' caused by torsional loading.

jazzy · 2025-12-01T12:53:39+0000

Rita_Poon said:
Picking up the lightest ball in sport cost you an achilles. Or was it the turn, did you twist and not move your feet so a spiral effect on the tendon? I've seen spiral fractures in tibia x-rays is why I ask, 'spiral/helical fracture' caused by torsional loading.

Can't be precise but I think that I twisted before I turned.
Dr said I had a weakness due to running

Walken · 2025-12-01T12:56:04+0000

jazzy said:
Wish I could run. Marathons ( no not Snicker variety RP ) in my youth have done my Achilles in - one snapped the other strained - so I don't even bother trying to run nowadays.

Incline walking at a decent pace works for me on the treadmill.

Give cycling a go mate, I took it up after I couldn't get rid of plantar faciliatis for the best part of a year.

NeilMorepies · 2025-12-01T12:59:24+0000

Do you even creak bro?

Daveysgingerlovechild · 2025-12-01T13:00:04+0000

Hello fellow sad old men. That's a "yes" btw.

jazzy · 2025-12-01T13:01:22+0000

Walken said:
Give cycling a go mate, I took it up after I couldn't get rid of plantar faciliatis for the best part of a year.

Dad was a racer , very good time trialist.
Too tough for me that sport

Rita_Poon · 2025-12-01T13:01:52+0000

jazzy said:
Can't be precise but I think that I twisted before I turned.
Dr said I had a weakness due to running

The pool the pool the pool. Is what I was told, and that it was difficult to get injured swimming and that it works all the muscle groups etc. But shoulder wear and tennis elbow can and did turn up with a vengeance. Ripped my adductor months and months ago, and still kyboshed now. Similar to your story, I was getting up off the floor foolishly unaided and put my weight through my left leg and I heard a sickening ripping sound, then the ocean of agony turned up a split second after. Someone mentioned recovery earlier, and also getting through hangovers. It's this aspect of youth no one warns about, the invincibility of youth is based on shrugging off a hangover or an injury and simply recovering. Those magic powers dry up and are replaced by suffering. It sucks being in pain, and is compounded by there being no prospect of healing and getting back what was lost. Time, what a twit*.

Joey66 · 2025-12-01T13:05:25+0000

COYBL25 said:
Nearer to sixty than 50, still running close on 2000 miles a year, done 9 off road half marathons this year.

The difference is in my twenties, I ran a lot faster and could sustain the pace, now I just plod along and it takes me a full week to recover from a race, rather than a couple of days like it used to.

Also my tolerance to ale has massively reduced with age and the hangovers seems to last for days, as a result if there`s nothing in pub I want to drink ( no real ale ), I`ll happily drink soft drinks.

Better walking than running at that age mate ....