Razors Edge ★ Posted October 14, 2017 Share #51 Posted October 14, 2017 Is "old" good or bad? "Old" - in the "good" sense - ie wiser, more mentally mature, more experienced, and ready to take on new adventures without the encumbrances of fear - generally starts somewhere in the 45-55 range. "Old" in the worse sense - calcified thinking, physical impairments, steady decline in mental, physical, and/or social abilities - is crazy relative - from those outliers who are always "old" to the general population which can start at 30, 40, 50, or 90! I meet folks who seem resigned to not changing, evolving, growing, experiencing, etc. when they are 30. I meet folks in their 70s who have the spirit of a teenager. So, I ain't going with a single number. I plan on keeping it going and avoiding "old" until I skip it altogether and am just "dead". Hopefully that final step is many decades away. Tom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted October 14, 2017 Share #52 Posted October 14, 2017 Get off the lawn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted October 14, 2017 Share #53 Posted October 14, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted October 14, 2017 Share #54 Posted October 14, 2017 current +10 So that would 68. That makes sense if one is 80, then old=90. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadiejorge Posted October 14, 2017 Share #55 Posted October 14, 2017 It's all relative. My daughter thinks I have one foot in the grave, the older folks laugh at me when I complain about all of the nagging pains and creaks I get. Being in your mid-40s is like the red-headed step child of aging. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted October 14, 2017 Share #56 Posted October 14, 2017 25 minutes ago, roadiejorge said: It's all relative. My daughter thinks I have one foot in the grave, the older folks laugh at me when I complain about all of the nagging pains and creaks I get. Being in your mid-40s is like the red-headed step child of aging. I felt that 40's was the crest. Now I am on the slide somewhere between irrelevant and obscurity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted October 14, 2017 Share #57 Posted October 14, 2017 I'm 55. I think physically, I may have peaked at 50. Recovery takes longer. I'm still very strong on the bike, but my running has lost a step. I'm using the advice of a friend and re-setting my PRs back to zero every time I change Age Groups. I plan to keep going until I can't anymore. I have friends, much younger who are already old. They feel their glory days are behind them and want to reminisce about the "Good Old Days" instead of creating new ones. I don't hang around with them as much anymore. I like being around the cycling and running people - young and old. The good energy I get from them is like a fountain of youth! I rarely feel old with them. My dad is 79, my mom 75. My dad was old at 65. My mom still isn't old, even though I can tell she has lost a step physically. She just keeps active and is always looking for things to do. Dad just sits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted October 14, 2017 Share #58 Posted October 14, 2017 'Old' is always relative. I dont really think of myself as old yet, but some of the young folks I work with do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted October 14, 2017 Share #59 Posted October 14, 2017 5 hours ago, groupw said: I'm 55. I think physically, I may have peaked at 50. Recovery takes longer. I'm still very strong on the bike, but my running has lost a step. I'm using the advice of a friend and re-setting my PRs back to zero every time I change Age Groups. I plan to keep going until I can't anymore. I have friends, much younger who are already old. They feel their glory days are behind them and want to reminisce about the "Good Old Days" instead of creating new ones. I don't hang around with them as much anymore. I like being around the cycling and running people - young and old. The good energy I get from them is like a fountain of youth! I rarely feel old with them. My dad is 79, my mom 75. My dad was old at 65. My mom still isn't old, even though I can tell she has lost a step physically. She just keeps active and is always looking for things to do. Dad just sits. I'm 58 and most of my closest friends are around my age...none of them have expressed the glory old days yet. They just wonder when they are going to retire to become more active and set a new life direction. One of them is 60 or 61..she does some weights, jogs abut 3-5 km. a few times a wk. She's not running half marathons but she goes on bike rides, especially touring bike rides. And she Loooves playing tennis several times per wk. She has now a tennis elbow problem and her shoulder rotator cuff. She dislikes cyclists who disrespects slower cyclists like herself on paths. LoL. She isn't a hot thing on a carbon bike but she is active and healthy. She doesn't own a car, uses carshare for past 15 years. So does she seem to be your typical senior? She's retiring next yr. She is a transportation policy advisor in govn't... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted October 15, 2017 Share #60 Posted October 15, 2017 It's been a moving target. When I was 37, could compete with most of the high school runners I coached, and won a medal in the Maryland Marathon, I was amazed that my high school coach, then in his 50's, had won a medal in the 50 mile up-and-down a mountain JFK Run in W.Virginia. 50's wasn't old, but it was getting there. When I was in my 50's and could beat the slowest kids I coached in Fall crosscountry - who were bulky Spring lacrosse players keeping themselves in shape - I was amazed that a 70+ year old assistant coach at another school had run track and cross country for Ohio State in the 1940's and was still running 5K races. That was surely old. Now I've just turn 67 and remember a former neighbor who, at 80, would drive home from visiting N.Carolina relatives for 9 hours through the early AM hours, drop his wife off at the house, and then go all around town checking out flea markets for the old hand tools he loved to collect. So that's what's old to me now: 80. But wait a minute: my Uncle Tom, the only one of four brothers (including my father) who didn't smoke and drink to frequent excess and die in his 60's, could shoot 45 for nine holes of golf at age 84, but when he was 85 he began to physically decline significantly. So maybe I won't get old until 85. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadiejorge Posted October 15, 2017 Share #61 Posted October 15, 2017 18 hours ago, Zealot said: 'Old' is always relative. I dont really think of myself as old yet, but some of the young folks I work with do. Neither do I. Mentally I have the same energy and outlook I've always had. What's been a bit deflating are the physical changes to a degree. The nagging pains here and there get in the way of doing things the way I used to do them; especially cycling. The back issue that keeps coming back has been deflating because I've typically been really consistent with riding. I do love walking so I've been doing that, but it's not as invigorating as hammering every day to and from work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted October 15, 2017 Share #62 Posted October 15, 2017 When it gets to the point where I really start to feel old, I'll begin consuming mass quantities of alcohol and drugs, and I'll feel like a spring chicken again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted October 15, 2017 Share #63 Posted October 15, 2017 6 hours ago, roadiejorge said: Neither do I. Mentally I have the same energy and outlook I've always had. What's been a bit deflating are the physical changes to a degree. The nagging pains here and there get in the way of doing things the way I used to do them; especially cycling. The back issue that keeps coming back has been deflating because I've typically been really consistent with riding. I do love walking so I've been doing that, but it's not as invigorating as hammering every day to and from work. Physically, we all eventually pay the piper. That's life. But go as long as you can! I love this guy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted October 15, 2017 Share #64 Posted October 15, 2017 @58 yrs. this yr. Sunglasses covers up a lot..my age probably shows abit on my face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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