Square Wheels Posted March 4, 2019 Share #1 Posted March 4, 2019 This guy is 99 and will be running Mt. Washington for his 16th (I think) time! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted March 4, 2019 Share #2 Posted March 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Square Wheels said: This guy is 99 and will be running Mt. Washington Yes! I want to be like this guy when I grow up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted March 4, 2019 I bet he's not eating donuts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #4 Posted March 4, 2019 26 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: I bet he's not eating donuts. Or drinking light beer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #5 Posted March 4, 2019 23 minutes ago, Longjohn said: Or drinking light beer Or down with the flu. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted March 4, 2019 Share #6 Posted March 4, 2019 The whole thing is an outrage and against nature. A man of that age should be slouching in a Lazy Boy wearing thermal underwear and drinking beer, while criticising everyone under the age of seventy. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #7 Posted March 4, 2019 Pretty damned amazing if you ask me, which you did not.https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a21599296/98-year-old-finishes-mount-washington-road-race/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted March 4, 2019 Share #8 Posted March 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, onbike1939 said: The whole thing is an outrage and against nature. A man of that age should be slouching in a Lazy Boy wearing thermal underwear and drinking beer, while criticising everyone under the age of seventy. And you know this, how? Careful with the leaver on the Lazy Boy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted March 4, 2019 Share #9 Posted March 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Kzoo said: And you know this, how? Careful with the leaver on the Lazy Boy... Much of the time I just relay others experiences......I don't have the energy to speak for myself these days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted March 4, 2019 Share #10 Posted March 4, 2019 Just now, onbike1939 said: Much of the time I just relay others experiences......I don't have the energy to speak for myself these days. Hence, cut and paste answers. BAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted March 4, 2019 Share #11 Posted March 4, 2019 31 minutes ago, Kzoo said: Hence, cut and paste answers. BAM Perish the thought......it's unworthy.....even for you. Cherish the idea that there still exists in this miserable world, a few gifted people who can....... by means of their native wit and seductive charm...... still delight and amuse their more pedestrian brethren. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted March 4, 2019 Share #12 Posted March 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, onbike1939 said: Cherish the idea that there still exists in this miserable world, a few gifted people who can....... by means of their native wit and seductive charm...... still delight and amuse their more pedestrian brethren. Yeah, but do you know any of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted March 4, 2019 Share #13 Posted March 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, Kzoo said: Yeah, but do you know any of them? I met one the other day in the Poundsavers shop......it was an incredible experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #14 Posted March 4, 2019 58 minutes ago, Kzoo said: Hence, cut and paste answers. BAM Another frustrated hammer guy. @jsharr and @late -- you guys picking up on this? I may have to revert to being a rapier guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted March 4, 2019 Share #15 Posted March 4, 2019 5 minutes ago, onbike1939 said: I met one the other day in the Poundsavers shop......it was an incredible experience. Poundsavers shop. Must be a UK thing. Here we have Dollar General and Dollar Tree stores. Both much better that a Poundsavers shop, I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted March 4, 2019 Share #16 Posted March 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, Dottles said: Another frustrated hammer guy. @jsharr and @late -- you guys picking up on this? I may have to revert to being a rapier guy. Your moran is showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted March 4, 2019 Share #17 Posted March 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, Dottles said: Another frustrated hammer guy. @jsharr and @late -- you guys picking up on this? I may have to revert to being a rapier guy. You can't revert to something you've never been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #18 Posted March 4, 2019 6 hours ago, Square Wheels said: I bet he's not eating donuts. <perk> Donuts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #19 Posted March 4, 2019 5 minutes ago, Dottles said: Another frustrated hammer guy. @jsharr and @late -- you guys picking up on this? I may have to revert to being a rapier guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #20 Posted March 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, late said: You can't revert to something you've never been. I don't go into a fire fight with fire. I bring water. The fizzle is so much more exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted March 4, 2019 Share #21 Posted March 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, Dottles said: fizzle.. Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted March 4, 2019 Share #22 Posted March 4, 2019 4 minutes ago, Dottles said: I don't go into a fire fight with fire. I bring water. The fizzle is so much more exciting. If anyone knows fizzle it's Dottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #23 Posted March 4, 2019 Just now, Kzoo said: If anyone knows fizzle drizzle it's Dottie. I don't live in the PNW for nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #24 Posted March 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, late said: Indeed. You never did snuff out elegantly. I seem to recall a lot of dark plumes poisoning the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted March 4, 2019 Share #25 Posted March 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Dottles said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #26 Posted March 4, 2019 21 minutes ago, late said: It's a good thing I learned to speak empty thoughts. As an accomplished bus driver, you probably didn't get that training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share #27 Posted March 4, 2019 4 hours ago, jsharr said: Pretty damned amazing if you ask me, which you did not.https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a21599296/98-year-old-finishes-mount-washington-road-race/ Me (with my Mt Washington hill climb jersey), George, the wife. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted March 4, 2019 Share #28 Posted March 4, 2019 3 hours ago, Dottles said: You never did snuff out elegantly. I seem to recall a lot of dark plumes poisoning the environment. What you did, with your two pals, got you kicked out. And that was the sort of insults most leave behind when they leave Junior High. The 3 of you repeated those insults literally hundreds of times. All of which is to say you are projecting. Fortunately, you can't do that here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share #29 Posted March 4, 2019 His bib number is his age. I've met him the three times I've been there. I got in again this year, I plan to get another pic with him. Last year was very stressful, the line out in the road to get in was huge, we barely made it to the start line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #30 Posted March 4, 2019 18 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: Me (with my Mt Washington hill climb jersey), George, the wife. George got himself a trophy wife!!!! You should keep up the jogging, maybe you can land one too! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted March 4, 2019 Share #31 Posted March 4, 2019 22 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: Me (with my Mt Washington hill climb jersey), George, the wife. ...which one is you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share #32 Posted March 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Page Turner said: ...which one is you ? The disinterested guy sitting at the table on the right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted March 4, 2019 Share #33 Posted March 4, 2019 ...this month I'll be 70, and I think running is stupid. Hopefully, I'll still think that if I make it to 98. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share #34 Posted March 4, 2019 Just now, Page Turner said: ...this month I'll be 70, and I think running is stupid. Hopefully, I'll still think that if I make it to 98. So, you'll run it with me next year? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted March 4, 2019 Share #35 Posted March 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Square Wheels said: So, you'll run it with me next year? ...were it not for a previous commitment, I would do that in a heartbeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share #36 Posted March 4, 2019 You're being committed for the month of June? 2020's date hasn't been released yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted March 4, 2019 Share #37 Posted March 4, 2019 18 hours ago, BR46 said: Yes! I want to be like this guy when I grow up. Me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 4, 2019 Share #38 Posted March 4, 2019 30 minutes ago, late said: What you did, with your two pals, got you kicked out. And that was the sort of insults most leave behind when they leave Junior High. The 3 of you repeated those insults literally hundreds of times. All of which is to say you are projecting. Fortunately, you can't do that here. Oh, there was a lot more to it than this encapsulation provides. You left a lot of stuff out -- naturally most of your own shortcomings. But I will not rehash it here because as you say -- this is a new place and it's nice to get to know the other part of you. Plus I don't care. I apologized for my part and that's all I can do -- will do. I'm glad you're here. I'd buy you a coffee and a Maine donut (doughnut) but I'm not really sure how I'd get it to you. I wish I could take my wife and visit the upper New England states this summer -- including Maine -- but it's not in the financial cards. I think it'd be great though to fly into New York and visit RG, Kirby, and Ralph, drive up to CT and visit Max, track down DeathJim somewhere,, hit SquareWheelieBopper in Boston, and you in Maine. Maybe even hit upstate NY and check the woodcutting digs of Zackney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted March 5, 2019 Share #39 Posted March 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Dottles said: I think it'd be great though to fly into New York and visit RG, Kirby, and Ralph, drive up to CT and visit Max, track down DeathJim somewhere,, hit SquareWheelieBopper in Boston, and you in Maine. Maybe even hit upstate NY and check the woodcutting digs of Zackney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share #40 Posted March 5, 2019 Are you people really bickering in my thread about a super cool 99 year old guy who is training to run Mt Washington? What the ef is wrong with people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted March 5, 2019 Share #41 Posted March 5, 2019 I’m going to wait until next year. It would be cool to run with a 100 year old dude. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted March 5, 2019 Share #42 Posted March 5, 2019 When I was younger I thought pure determination could overcome the body's weakness. I'm finding that is not true. That old boy is one in a whole bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 5, 2019 Share #43 Posted March 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Further said: I would love to visit Pittsburgh -- ish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted March 5, 2019 Share #44 Posted March 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Square Wheels said: Are you people really bickering in my thread about a super cool 99 year old guy who is training to run Mt Washington? What the ef is wrong with people? Lack of carbs and missing Ho Hos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted March 5, 2019 Share #45 Posted March 5, 2019 11 hours ago, Square Wheels said: Are you people really bickering in my thread about a super cool 99 year old guy who is training to run Mt Washington? What the ef is wrong with people? These people have no sense of what's right or wrong. They lack the proper sense of respect for his achievements. Personally, I think that he should be stuffed and mounted in order to create a fitting memorial for posterity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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