[Closed] How do you feel about getting older ?

Effin' peed off... 😕
my back hurts, I don't recover as well and hangovers are a nightmare however my head is in a much better state than in my 20's.
So I'd like to keep my head but have the body of a 20+

I'm 50 next year.

I think it's recovery time from injuries getting increasingly long that upsets me most (plus the fact I probably have less than half the active years left to me that I've already lived).

I'm on week 12 of a torn rotator cuff tear that's not hugely better than a week after I did it that's causing me most grief currently.

I just take it one day at a time

It's great

Old enough to know better AND old enough to not care

Getting older is like being a fine wine. It's best when you're drunk first haha 🙂

i'm 43, earlier this week i got told by someone who didn't know that he thought i was 32 😀

I've never been fitter, and i seem healthy enough...

...still not learning by my mistakes though... 😉

Shit.

Every day/week/month that goes by has me thinking that I'm running out of time. An injury or illness that keeps me off riding/walking/paddling/skiing seems to eat away at me. I'm starting to count the years left for me to be reasonably fit and active.

I wasn't really in to getting smashed or off my face so don't miss that.

In my head I'm still 18 (44 biologically). Always surprised how grey / white my hair is when it gets cut even though I've been grey for 10 years or more!

I think you're only as old as you decide to be......

It's better than the other option.

Least worst option!

At 59 I'm feeling better and better; I got a bit messed up in my early fifties but now that I'm used to the physical symptoms and have got through the miserable self-pitying bit I'm feeling more positive. The best thing about getting older is your increased wisdom and experience and the way you deal with people. Customers can sense experience and that's beneficial for everybody, including my employer.

I'm fitter now that I've ever been in my life thanks to taking up road riding and getting a decent bike, which I love riding. The only negative I can think of is the increased intolerance to noise and inconsiderate behaviour by other people.

Never have and couldn't care less about my age.
It always seems to be about others in my experience.
Like b'days - "but its your 40th - you HAVE to celebrate it..."
No [b]I[/b] don't but seem to feel the need to...

Don't mind actually. I've been forty (in my head) since I turned 18.

Now that my body is 43 it's caught up with my cautious old man attitude to life.

I think that your forties is when you start to feel the massive pressure of insecurity lift from you a bit when you've had a chance to achieve some major milestones.

From the age of 13 through to about 40 life is an intense competition to pass exams, secure a place at university, find a job, get a relationship, build a career, buy a house, have kids.

Once these things have all come to pass you can take stock of yourself and sort of feel more confident in your own skin.

On the downside I haven't been outdoors in the UK without a jacket since 1989.

Very much a 'pint half full' person me.
I love getting older and feel more and more connected to everything.
Still doing new things ,still having fun,still fit(ish)and healthy.
My youngest now kicks my arse at rock climbing and had to coach me through a few moves last night when I was starting to get a bit[s] scared[/s] [s]bottled it[/s] tired.
Life is awesome,go get some. 🙂

Grumpy (although I have just gone from the being the fittest in my life at 41 to the most unfit in 12 months)

I only dislike the injury recovery time period being so much longer

I'm starting to count the years left for me to be reasonably fit and active

He's a laid-back character always doing stuff but never going overboard with any of it. 'Don't expect too much of yourself ' is his favorite saying

I just take it one day at a time

^This for me too.

Some days are better than others. But I have no bucket list or things I feel I need to do. And rarely plan more than a few weeks ahead.

I'm 47 in a few weeks and to be honest, sometime I think do I need another 40 or 50 yrs of the rubbish life throws at people.

Time for the

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I turn 40 in a couple of months.

Ive started to care more about the fact I have a BMI of 25 and ideally could do with dropping 10Kg to 85Kg. Especially as Ive been trying to nail a couple of peaks near my place in France and have just been running out of the necessary viscera to quite make them whether it be guts, lungs, heart or brain. I can barely hang on to a bouldering wall these days 🙁

So Ive been working on my diet lately, and thinking hard about my 40yr old MOT coming up later this year and not staggering into the docs like a decrepit.

On the plus side, my BMI is 25, not 35, which given much of the competition is not doing too badly. I also exercise at least 3hrs a week and raise my heart rate every day for at least 30mins if not an hour.

My eye-sight is still perfect (or near as dammit, they cant fix anything with lenses anyway) and I can still get the strangest..., so all in all, "not dead yet" is how I would put it.

My target is to stay fit enough at 50 to still have the ability to spend the following 5-10yrs yomping through hills and mountains around Europe when the kids are old enough not to need me around all the time.

I'm 45 and still young... Might start thinking about getting older when I start feeling older... Hopefully some way off yet 😉

I'm another 43-year old, I don't mind the looks side of ageing (getting fatter at the same time is another matter) but as others have said recovering from crashes takes longer and I seem to get more general niggles and aches.

Since I started pilates feel much better, swim 4/5 times a week, haven't ridden a bike for way too long.

Over 50 and feel pretty good, someone thought I was 37 the other day which is just silly.

I do look at Swallows and think maybe only see them arriving in spring another 25 times, but could get hit by a bus tomorrow.

Still learning stuff so quite happy really, the hairy ears is a bummer.

Mentally, I'm not bothered about age.
Physically - I've almost constantly got knee or back pain to varying degrees now. I'm ok once I'm in action, but getting going isn't as easy as it was!
Fitness wise I'm happy enough. Doing a bit more on the bike of late and feeling good. Don't seem any worse than in my younger days, although my fearlessness isn't at the same level it was in my 20s or 30s.

largely I ignore it and have fun but I have a constant reminder of my approaching age, my son is 4 when he is ready to make his way in the world or milk me for uni fees I will be 65.

I did feel and act like I was 20 till the responsibility of fatherhood bit.

52, never felt better, fitter now than i've ever been, in fact after giving up eating crap and drinking alcohol i'm much happier, genetics do play a part, but i do work hard at keeping in shape.
I have no worries about getting older, in fact still making gains in the gym and now the wife has started pumping iron all is well in the world.
On a side note, a young woman the other day said i was 'buff' 8)

Scotroutes, you aren't running out of time...you're still making chances and opportunities to make best use of your time. Ride and ski as hard as you can- but still within your abilities. That way, you'll keep on riding for a long time. I'm 51, still love descents like Lair and Etchachan (last week, again..) and I don't see that stopping in the near future. One day I will have to wind my neck in. But not yet. I recover well from hard rides and luckily from injuries; the body and its systems are well trained after plenty practice at fixing itself. Wwas, your cuff will heal- that one takes ages for most folk and you have been unlucky.
This Saturday I'll be sweeping the Speyside Way race, having ridden 120 miles to get there on Friday. And there'll be another 120 to get back home again. With age comes the experience to measure your work rate better, to allow you to keep going. It's that 'keeping going' thing that I reckon is the most important part about getting older. Just do not stop....

I'm 40 next month and not that happy about it. Mainly because I'm really not looking forward to my inevitable death 🙁

However I manage to ignore it mostly, by always working with people who are either my age or older. One of my colleagues is almost 50, and he's a strange mix of old git and youngster. The other day we went on a bike ride and stopped off at his mum and dad's for tea, that made me feel like a teenager!

On the plus side though, my career is in a far better place than it ever was and I have progressed to the point where I feel pretty good about my level of influence and responsibility, unlike the first 15 odd years where I was constantly frustrated and demoralised.

44 in a couple of months, so probably bang on the STW average. I don't really feel any different now (physically) to 10-15 years ago. I'm fit and active, still got (more or less) all my own teeth, balding but sexy ( 🙂 ), yadda yadda yadda. I don't even think about ageing really, I'd prefer not to of course, but it's inevitable so why stress about it. 3 young kids (6, 5 & 17 months) to keep me on my toes, just hope I'm here long enough to see their kids 🙂

Hairy ears. WTF?

Hairy ears. WTF?

Wooly Tufty Fluff 🙂

I official became old last time I had my hair cut.... the young lady doing it suggested she trim my eyebrows.... to be fair I had noticed them myself, they were getting a little Denis Healey.

Other than that... hang overs last days, but car insurance is as cheap as chips ... rock n roll.

I don't consider it.
I'm getting better looking as time passes
The growing raft of infirmities is a bit annoying though

Looking for the positive I s'pose I could use it light a fire in an emergency

44 in a couple of months, so probably bang on the STW average.

I was 26 when I first signed up to STW 😯

Mid 40's, sexy, fit as ****, hansom chap, solvent, own hair (maturing grey nicely), own teeth (front 3 excepted, but screwed in) light tan, bikes, cars, homes, cash in my wallet and time to spend it, my cock still works, occasional lower back ache is all I've got to worry about.. 😀

C'mon... whats the hell's not to like about that eh'? 8)

Should put an ad on eHarmoney shouldn't I?? 😆

Edit: I do have to wear glasses for Laptop work, but hey... I look sexy in those too!

Oldest finisher at the West Highland Way race (ultra marathon run) this year was 67. Just saying..

hang overs last days

Hangovers are also considerably worsened when you get repeatedly poked in the ribs at 6:30 am on a Sunday morning by a six year old who wants to watch Spongebob Squarepants and demands breakfast. Avoid

I was 26 when I first signed up to STW

Then we've all got old together 🙂

36 this year, my general outlook is to carry on doing a what makes me happy, not looking forward to 40 but not sure why lol.

I imagine when I get to fifty ill look back and think I should have rode more, so perhaps thats something I should work on now!

54 and having a lot of fun.
And went to Ibiza with friends last year, probably won't go again.
In a new and great relationship and traveling a fair amount.
I won't say it is always easy, and there are ups and downs, but enjoying it.

Then we've all got old together

And we remember when Alker had hair.

bloody loving it, now that I have my health and fitness back.
love being a grumpy old man, love not giving a monkey's what I look like and what people think.

living a good life and reaping the lord's rewards.......... 😆

Oh God, I hate it. HATE. reading this panics me, if I even touch on the thought of it at night I can wave goodbye to drifting off to sleep. 😥

Right hip so far gone I can't stand up for long, left eyesight now going after a football REALLY hard in the face a few months ago.

Hangover, not even worth considering.

I earn more than I ever have done which is great but it all goes on bills and flippin kids swimming lessons.

basically, dont get me started.... 😡

He's got way more hair than me 🙂

love being a grumpy old man, love not giving a monkey's what I look like and what people think

That's mostly my outlook too Tony 🙂

[i] It's better than the other option.[/i]
Age reversal 😯

Yeah, getting older, it aint exactly a barrel O'laughs.

Knowing that ageing and Death are essential to the evolution of our species, doesn't help.

Yay for happy, happy, joy, joy threads.
😉

I'm 46 and not that bothered. in fact, i'm as fit as I was 20-odd years ago, give or take, I'm lighter, I've got two great kids that keep me young, some good bike riding mates.

On the negatives - with all that ^ comes responsibility, and the stresses of mortgages and pensions and work, and parents that are getting older and will inevitably need more looking after, and there are definitely times when the news announces that life expectancy is now 80-something or whatever it is, and i frankly think that i can't take another 35-40 years of this shite.

And the biggest negative to being 46, is that my wife is 43. And she was 22 when we started going out. 22..... with the body of a 22 year old...... and......

Wrote something long and rather personal. Thought better of sharing it.

40 next year: some things going well (career, beautiful daugher, still in love with Mrs North). Other things going less well (health, hole in my life when I had to give up cycling, working too hard).

Summary: feeling sorry for myself for the last 3 years. Need to follow my own advice to change that.

Guy at work is having his 40th birthday. Feels a bit odd, I'd always thought of him as about 25...

40s great. Excuse to triathlons, ultras and other crazy things rather than other mid life crisis things

50s worse. Too many people dying, kids' lives more serious, aches and pains take longer to disappear. But at least there was an excuse to buy a bike given that only a few years of proper MTB left! And finally reading glasses ....NO!

Oh yeah - forgot about the glasses for DSE use. Struggling to read small print unaided now too, unless it's at arms length and in strong daylight!

Omitn - sorry to hear that.

40s great. Excuse to triathlons, ultras

Yep.... tri done .... got my first Ultra in about 6 weeks

What hit it home was visiting the doctor.

Late-30s, got piles, went to the doc, got prescription for cream, sent home.
Early-40s, got piles, went to the doc, got told he would like to send me for a colonoscopy to check for bowel cancer.

WHOOOAAAAA, WHAAT?? I felt I hadn't changed/aged at all during those visits, but yet it seems just in passing a random number of days of life I am now declared to be at risk of whole new list of things. Old people things. So no, I only occasionally feel my age, I still look younger than I am, and I can still keep up with my teenage nephew over distance running. But it's little things that make me realise I am old. How I always have an anecdote of experience to delight youngsters whatever the situation, that teachers and doctors look far too young to be old enough, how I remember the originals of today's remixes and remakes, and the fact I have a pair of jeans in the cupboard that have been in, gone out and come back into fashion.

went to the doc, got told he would like to send me for a colonoscopy

Oooooh! Picolax 😯

What a bunch of whingers. Just get on with it Ffs. 🙂

Another 43 year old. I'm pretty sanguine about my advancing age and eventual oblivion, I could do without the injuries though, they piss me off. In my 20s and 30s I'd get hurt and just drink through it, these days I'm an invalid for a week every time I stub my toe.

My target is to stay fit enough at 50 to still have the ability to spend the following 5-10yrs yomping through hills and mountains around Europe when the kids are old enough not to need me around all the time.

Very low aspirations then! I've met 60 and 70 year olds out walking and biking in the fells quicker than the average 20 yr old. If you keep exercising, the age related decline is minuscule.

41 here and hating the way that my body is starting to let me down. I go to a gym where the average age is below mine and just cannot keep pace with the youngsters. The new people coming into my unit are younger than me and I hate not being able to whupp them in PFAs.

It just takes so much longer to recover from serious exercise these days and there's more pain whilst it is happening.

It sucks

48 on Sunday, two six year old daughters and a 39 year old wife. I feel relatively fit and am of a slim build still, but don't like my grey hair (at least I have hair I guess) and don't like the fact I now need bifocal glasses to work properly.

I can't help but feel my best days are behind me and one day I will wake up, take ill and give the whole family a scare (family history of various ailments)

60 next birthday and I'm busy every day, plenty of indulgences, travelling lots and going surfing next week. Lost a stone and a half since giving up selling my labour power. Live in the moment.

I felt pretty good up to 60, couldn't really feel any dramatic changes happening. Get aches and pains now, noisy knees, housemaids elbow. Coming downhill off Blencathra via Hallsfell Ridge the other day was seriously hard work. I would have jogged down a few years back. The bike is much gentler on joints. Apart from that I still feel fairly fit, curse at all these young, slow people getting in my way strolling through town, eat and drink much as I always have. Never done ciggies or drugs though.

Turned 37 this year...
Work/Life balance is good (decent job 3 mins walk from my house)
Reasonably CV fit.
Reasonably strong.
No nasty health issues that I'm aware of.
Nice bike.
Awesome wife and kids (7 and 5 year old boys who like bikes)

Generally happy but WT actual F is ear/nose hair and bristly eyebrows about?

Ear hair because you have no need to hear anyone else past 45 - you know it all.

Nose hair to enhance the effect of your shit being odourless, obviously.

Eyebrow hair is still a mystery.

I'm 47 and probably just hitting my prime as far as an all-rounder, mind and body thing. I was probably stronger 10 years ago but my mind just wasn't there. Had about three years of aches and pains due to injuries but now back on track and not suffering at all from the usual oldman groans when moving.

Old age doesn't bother me. To be really frank, I didn't ever see beyond 30 anyway as I was going to top myself. Some days I'm kinda glad I didn't...

Back issues for years & cartilages on both knees repaired. Gall bladder removed & cataracts sorted. Arthritis in my knee makes walking down the fells rather painful but manageable.
Did my first mountain bike ride in the Yorkshire Dales last weekend after a year off with my bad back. Surprised myself that I actually rode some of the hills I thought I'd be pushing. Also work 3 days a week which is nice too.

Can't really complain looking at the state of some of my friends & colleagues. Been to too many funerals in last few years 🙁

Btw I'm 68!

50 years old and been retired for the past two years, time rich, money poor. 11 years as a type 2 diabetic with some related issues and trying my hardest to recover fast from a torn rotator cuff and subsequent frozen shoulder. Despite healing slow which goes with the territory of age and diabetes, I'm alive, I feel like I'm about 36 in my head and have learnt to take much better care of myself and have found I am a lot more chilled out than ever I used to be. Dramas and crisis can always be sorted out and possessions are only luxuries.
I've even started running again (18 years after packing up running when I retired from playing rugby) for pleasure with MrsS who has taken up sport after 49 years of avoiding it.
I may not be able to hang onto the bars on anything decent off-road at the minute but the hills will be there next year once I'm healed as will my bikes so hey, what's the point in stressing....in the meantime bring on the next international standard wheel size.....

Hating it and feeling grumpy all the time. Now 66 and lost a lot of the fitness I had at 56 and can't seem to get it back. Since move to Scotland 11 years ago have ridden much less and now climbs are a real strain, balance not so good now so struggle with technical sections. Hearing going, eyesight going (now wear varifocal specs which are a pain).

Worst thing is that I can see myself looking more and more like my dad who is 87 and in a nursing home.

Mixed feelings for me. I've just turned 47 and on the whole I've enjoyed my 40s more than my 30s and 20s, I'm reasonably fit, just spent 4 days mountain biking in the Alps with Mr Pea and 2 friends. We have a cute little house, nice bikes and a lovely family. We still go to rock concerts. I don't care about having a few grey hairs and not being able to drink alcohol.
On the other hand, I have a stressful job, and I suffer from both migraine and recurrent depression for which I have no effective treatment, and my parents and all their friends seem to be in very poor health which is a bit grim.

[i]Turned 37 this year.[/i]

You've got [i]ages[/i] yet. Toddler.

Worst thing? Knees. Weak knees. I was only saying after football on Monday how I sometimes see people on TV dropping to their haunches and bouncing back up again. I'm so jealous of that. And that lad that jumped off the railway platform to get his phone - all I could think was... shit, I used to be able to jump like that.

If I hadn't just knackered by ageing back, it'd have been me being swept

This Saturday I'll be sweeping the Speyside Way race, having ridden 120 miles to get there on Friday

Every day/week/month that goes by has me thinking that I'm running out of time.

This^

Too much to do and so little time to do it. Don't like getting slower as well.
Somebody please stop time!

I'm 72 and must say the aging process does indeed suck, but all-in-all, glad to still be here and, after 25 years at it, still on the MTB at least 2 days a week.
Ride slower, less high-risk, technical stuff and take more rest stops-----but so far still making it back to the pickup each ride.

As Drac says ^^ better than the other option.

58 last May and after cancer a few broken bones in the past and cancer treatment a couple of years ago it doesn't get any easier. 🙁

This kind of sums it up for me. I got on better as I got older.

Yet another 43 year old here, 44 in a couple of months, and I'm not too worried at the moment - I spent 6 hours this morning running and hiking around some of the local mountains, done 2 ultras this year... I'm probably fitter than I've ever been 8)

42 and things ache that I didn't know could before. Food is starting to disagree with me, or rather stuffing myself the way I used to is. Bowel doesn't behave quite so perfectly, though odd regularity to things now 😀

So that's physically how I feel.

Financially lets me spend more on bikes though and go more places which is a bonus. Then again I've broken and injured way more things in the last 5 years or so than in the rest of my life, and I don't just bounce off the ground like I used to 😀

As for age though. It's that point where you think 40s could be half way through life, maybe less for a bloke going by average life expectancy. Though I'm hoping by the time I'm 60 average will be 100 😀

Does focus your mind on wasteful time though. I was nuts on films, collected hundreds of DVDs, spent all my spare time watching them, went to the cinema often. Now I find sitting down for a couple of hours to watch a film seems like a waste of valuable time. Riding the bike for a couple of hours seems more rewarding. Less enthusiasm for work though as hours sat at a desk is just ticking towards death, though it is earning money.

Have a listen to Bill Frankland on Desert Island Discs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b064x7dv

World renowned allergy expert, still consulting and working with patients in private practice, published 3 scientific papers in the last 3 years.
He's 103.

I got id'ed in a restaurant last night. I could have kissed the early 20s hipster waiter. I'm 30, and not especially happy about it.

49 here, and diagnosed with prostate cancer exactly a yr ago. However no prostate now and doing more riding and swimming than ever before. Everything aches much of the time tho 😯