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What is it that reminds you that your not so young anymore and maybe shouldn't be doing x or y ?
sex
Injury recovery time
Eating bread
Raising a leg
Staying up late
Climbing on a bicycle
Reading the text on GTA
Knees. Definitely the pain in the knees. x or y being any-bloody-thing!
Really though, wasn't a problem in my 40s, only later.
Getting up off the floor is a project
Have to take ibuprofen before excersize
Think twice before drinking too many beers as hangovers are much worse
Need text size set to large on phone to see much without my glasses
..
I could go on
5hit I'm 39 for a few more months and need to lose the lard!
No cartilage left in one knee
Varifocal glasses and I still peer over the top when using my iPad or phone
Bad back after standing/walking for any length of time. Thanks for the flat feet, mum
Yoot of today taking legal highs
Not like that in my day...it was only the illegal ones we were after
Injury recovery. Scabs last week's and weeks.
Can't break into a run without a careful plan
Can't see without my glasses
I look forward every year to the couple of months in early summer when I am relatively pain free
Can't afford my wine bill
I'm only 41 so coming up to the halfway mark 🙂
My NHS Free Prescription Card 🙁
35 years of sport has not been kind to my body.
knees, ankles and wrists ache pretty much all the time, waiting for a date for surgery for my fused ankle.
back ache when i stand for too long, joints lock when i sit too long.
eyes have gone when reading. i have to put my foot on coffee table to cut my toe nails.
i am fubar
Bus pass and back pain
still being tired on Tuesday after a heavy Saturday night. how i ever did weekend double headers and still functioned is beyond me. oh, and getting out of bed in the morning is accompanied by a sound track of old man noises
No longer appearing to have a bladder.
What is it that reminds you that your not so young anymore
The mirror most mornings if I forget to avoid it & the barrage of abuse, mocking & mickey take from my children whenever I see them
maybe shouldn't be doing x or y
drinking or dancing & definitely never both at the same time 😳
My very audible crunchy knees. Might have to try singing when I walk down stairs to drown out the noise
Night time tinkling. Thinking it may just be easier to sleep in the bathroom.
Mounting my bike is easier if i just lay it on the floor
Wearing a school uniform to court just doesn't work anymore
Avoiding fried food. The consequences are not worth it
thinking how happy a nice pair of walking socks made me on my holiday.
New staff at work who weren't born when I started.
Over 40,nothing much.Now in my mid 50's & my hip aches,my eyes are starting to go & worst of all,after ending up with whiplash from some big offs at Les Arcs last summer my confidence seems to have gone. 😥
^^^ Regarding people being younger than you,I was at a Primal Scream gig in Manchester last Saturday & I reckon the young woman dancing next to me would have been a baby or toddler the last time I saw Primal Scream (1994)...
Eyes, fubared.
Teeth, fubared.
Ears, tinnitus.
Knees & ankles, fubared.
Sex life, CBA.
60 in August.
The fact that it takes a few minutes for my legs to remember how they work when I get out of bed in the mornings, more so when I've ridden the day before.
Grey hair - All bloody over me.
Shouting things at my kids that were shouted at me as a teenager.
But this sums it up for me
Brewers droop when I've not had anything to drink
Putting my distance glasses onto my head to read something small
Getting up at 2am to use the loo
Knees click and hurt.
Back twangs just looking at my shoelaces.
VDU monitor font set to 150%
Can't read mobile phone with 4.8" screen.
Involuntary noises when standing up from sitting.
Exercise takes alot of warming up for.
Injuries come out of nowhere and take weeks to recover from.
Safe sex essential, wot wiv me back an' all.
Tiny bladder, half a night's worth at best.
EDIT: Eyebrow, nostril and ear hair all flourishing!
C'mon guys, to add some balance:
51 and recently completed my first arctic ultra race in 38,5hours and will be going back for double the distance next winter - less than half the starters finished
Passing younger riders uphill - they were riding carbon road bikes, me a fatbike!
Facing the third redundancy of my career but not being old enough to collect a pension.
Peering over the top of my glasses at the telly
Seeming to possess the plumbing of a 70 year-old!
My favourite footwear are slippers.
That my get up and go has got up and gone and locked the door behind it.
Looking at 25-year-old girls and realising they're actually rather a bit too young for me 😯
Dovebiker - thanks for that. I'm not quite 40 yet, and I'm hoping to be fitter and do more in my 40's than I ever have. All the other posters had me worried!
Getting attention from women my own age, yuk.
The involuntary noises I make when moving.
On the plus side: as a child I was in awe of my dads ability to get up in the morning and let rip the biggest rasping farts, that would literally rattle the windows for about ten seconds. Like somebody slowly blowing a low note on a tuba, inside a shipping container.
It appears that its hereditary 🙂
Yoot of today taking legal highs
Yoot of today shagging like crazed weasels and using bumsecks as contraception.
For the first time, I struggled to read an OS map yesterday
Comfort rather than fashion where clothes are concerned.
I'd rather not get pissed. The hangover's not worth it.
On the plus side I don't give a toss what others think (unless they're important to me) and I speak my mind.
Memory and general information recall fading fast
Unable to lift legs high enough to put on pants in the morning
All old injuries hurt in the winter
The mild winters now seem colder than they did 10 years ago
Learning new stuff is not for old dogs
Constant niggling back ache, increases to imobility after a long day
Not giving a stuff about being hip, cool or trendy
0 - 25 = young
25 - 50 = middle aged
50 - 75 = old
75+ living on borrowed time.
I am nearly old , my friends are old . I feel old.
I can barely tolerate alcohol these days. And various joints are painful, though they have been for the past 20-odd years!
Probably fitter than I've ever been (which is good)
Injury recovery seems to take a lot longer (not so good)
My hair seems to be in a race to disappear before it goes grey... 🙂
Tolerance to alcohol seems to have gone AWOL.
By STM's definitions, I'm old. I still fall off my bikes far too often, and the damage takes so long to repair that I'm always carrying multiple injuries, and spending a lot of money on physios and osteopaths. I can't get out of a chair without making an old man noise. Journey planning involves identifying possible opportunities for a leak.
Recovery from exercise, really annoying as I'd quite happily train hard every day if my body could take it.
On the plus side I'm probably stronger and more flexible than I've ever been.
Being constantly tired from pain the arthritis in my neck causes plus the nerve damage in my shoulder means pushing or lifting anything higher than shoulder level is knackering .
In fairness my bodys had some stick - martial arts , wieght training , being a hod carrier , motorbike car mtb and ski crashes haven't helped . At 53 some days I feel closer to 80 .
Knees. Definitely the pain in the knees
Same here. Painful going up and down, stiffness in back of knees. Starting to resort to trekking poles. I blame skiing. Otherwise for an over 60, not too bad.
Saying goodbye to people.
My right thumb sounding like a gunshot every time I bend it.
Realising all the TV and film stars and heroes from childhood are now dead or dying.
Injuries taking longer to heal I don't notice so much as it's only with age I've started becoming more reckless and getting injuries 😀
Starting to find I can't stuff my gut without it having repercussions.
Reading glasses time and realisation that things are fixed in time and you can't do anything to stop it. Mortality becomes far more of a reality. Still, just something to deal with and enjoy the 2nd half of life as much as I can (though if life expectancy increases further then maybe have a bit more time, assuming not the C word or I kill myself on the bike, which I keep trying to do).
Yoot of today taking legal highs
Which aren't exactly 'legal' or 'illegal', & quite often don't get you high but do often require an ambulance/paramedic/hospital.
Still trying to chase 20 somethings round a five a side pitch twice a week. It feels like it gets tougher each week
Sight now going downhill fast. Getting into that stupid glasses on the end of the nose thing in meetings.
Not being invited on works nights out (may not be my age).
Recovery from injury taking longer - although can't say that I've noticed that for cuts and scrapes, just muscle and ligament stuff - even breaking my arm in the summer didn't take particularly long to heal.
At least ten years older than everyone I ride with (although I also regard that as a good thing).
But to add balance to this thread - fitter than I was in my thirties and looking forward to Enduro2 in the Alps this June. 53 btw.
deadkenny - Member
Realising all the TV and film stars and heroes from childhood are now dead or dying.
add to that... or banged up for sex abuse.
Ha!!Terrible subject but I had to laugh at that. The other year one of my mates told us when he was a child he wrote to Jim'll Fix It. 😀
Need reading glasses to find elusive gorse thorns in tyre
Remember seeing "fork handles" live
fart when running
And then there's having to exercise more or eat less year on year, to stay roughly the same weight 😐
Left knee and wrist are goosed, close up vision isn't great and I get "The Fear" far more often when I ride my bike down anything even remotely technical.
Oh, and the farting thing that Binners mentioned... that too.
Bustaspoke - Member
Ha!!Terrible subject but I had to laugh at that. The other year one of my mates told us when he was a child he wrote to Jim'll Fix It.
Our family used to have the Jim'll Fix It board game 😯
http://www.weirdretro.org.uk/they-fixed-for-jim-to-sell-anything.html
Having team members at work who were born after Appetite for Destruction was released
And
Recovery time from injury, colds and standing up.
Involuntary sharts on steep climbs.
In the words of James may just now on the tele
“that takes me back.... Like meeting a kid with mumphs"
Playing grads' golf v current student team and they weren't born (even thought about) when you were a student!!
Oh yes, and my wrist is wrecked. I was told that one of my forearm bones is longer than it should be and the only treatment would be to cut a slice out of the bone to shorten it. I declined that operation and now my wrist is fubared.
Wow, a lot of you guys sound in a rough way, healing vibes all.
I've just turned 45, so far i'm not doing too bad, i suffer with my back off and on, but thats been the case since i was 18, i hurt it carrying a cast iron bath down some stairs. I get some problems with my feet sometimes which seems to be related to certain types of shoes, big or hard rides take a bit more recovery time, as does illness and some injuries. I feel a bit stiff first thing in the morning (not in a good way) but this soon passes. The old plumbing seems to be in full working order still. I don't drink to get drunk anymore, i have never smoked, i have never played rugby or gone skiing, in my younger days i used to Kayak and rock climb and I've always liked walking, I've no idea if this as anything to do with my physical condition now though.
Only wearing glasses for reading .I was already intolerant of most people .I still get pissed am still fit enough to do what I want just wish I could retire and do more cycling walking and drinking!!
rock climbing - I remember that (just)
69 in 2 days: Last 10 years had cataracts sorted, torn cartilages in both knees repaired, arthritis in knees & gall bladder removed. Regular physio on back issue which is a big problem on long climbs (really slow!). Groan when getting up & visiting the loo during the night. Knees painful on descending when hillwalking.
Riding FS for last 15yrs but bought a 29er HT last year. Been riding that a lot lately. Even took it over Garburn a few weeks ago.
I'm in great shape, my only issue which pisses me off is wearing glasses to read.
I am surprised by the photos taken of me recently though, for some strange reason I think I look really old. But that's only my POV, mates and such are being kind when they say they think I look young...but I don't, I think I now look my age.
Greying hair, it's another funny thing about me. Whilst not fully grey (yet) all folks say I look distinguished, but to me I look old.. but no way tempted to dye it, because I like the way it looks.
My teeth, wonky as a wonky thing due to a bad injury back in the early 00's. I should, I really should get them fixed.
Then there's the head of Ofcom, some sweet young slip of a girl holds the post. She's been on TV, perfectly eloquent and cohesive. Damn, I'm not so sure I was like that at her age.
Other than those small issues, I'm still one sexy hunk of human male full of get up and go.. Never felt better fitness and psychologically wise, combine that with wit and aged charm and I'm one helluva catch.
Rock on, roll high.
Getting angry because there's no more originality in super hero fight scenes, they all look the same these days (Ant Man possibly the only exception).
my only issue which pisses me off is wearing glasses to read.
+1 I can accept most things that go with age, but have found glasses to read weirdly tough/depressing. Stupid I know...
on the plus side, cant be arsed with cheap wine. Lovely claret on the go right now....
My wife (a couple of years younger) finally acknowledged that my sitting down to take shoes and socks on and off was, actually, quite sensible...
What was the question again?
Sex (lack of)
Being in a town centre on a weekend night
Having to watch what I eat
Visiting the doctors more than once a year
My glass back.
Remembering the 80's as "good old days"
Fashions arriving for the second time
@pennine respect !
On the don't do x and y, skiing this year for the first time in 25 years I took cable car down from Mont Fort rather than ski the bumps 🙁 what it did do is make me commit to knee surgery so I can ski them again.
People younger than me moaning about their decaying bodies.
#manup
Speak up!
I can't hear you!
Young people today do nothing but mumble.........
Getting attention from women my own age, yuk.
+100. That smarts. Try to remember that I sometimes got attention from 40-50 yr old women when I was 28.
Confirmation bias will eat you up 😉
.....go get a PSA test...For those of us over 40.......
Should be automatic screening for us blokes once we get into our 40's 😯
Weird night out last week. Mrs_d enjoys current chart music, I'm into rock.. Friday night, multiple DJ set in Leeds, so we went & booked into a hotel even though it's only 10 miles away. Obviously I'm the oldest geezer there, but one young couple tagged onto us and were maybe a little too friendly... Thinking Benidorm & the Middlesbrough swingers club.... Weird