OT: Being 40 sucks

Hope Solo said:
Lovely, thanks! Even with the douchebag gone, I always recommend these things be sent via PM, but it's your call. It's always nice to have the sister there, because it makes the brothers look less like nerds. :clink:
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Oh, the brothers are hardcore nerds. And they are proud of it. That was the best thing I did when raising them was to teach the boys to be nerds.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Yea same thing with my cycling. 40 was my last year as a licensed racer. That was when I noticed the physical decline. I can still go out and ride hard but my racing days are over.
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You may not race to win the whole thing, but there are still the age categories. Not a race goes by out here where they are not announcing a 70+ year old categories for men and women.
 
Superfreak said:
You may not race to win the whole thing, but there are still the age categories. Not a race goes by out here where they are not announcing a 70+ year old categories for men and women.
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Yea, I know....there's age group masters racing. I've thought about joining the MOS club out of Indiana and doing some of their races but......
 
I will be 47 in December. In the last year I have dropped over 100 pounds. I can do 100 push-ups in less than 2.5 minutes (shooting for less than 2 minutes like I did in the Army when I was 23). The other day I was moving 60 pound bags of concrete and I was able to pick up 3 of them at one time and move them about 15 feet away. My BP is typically 130/60-65. I would say that since I left the Army in 1991, I am in the best shape I have been in. Being over 40 does not suck, as long as you stay active and eat right.
 
Darla said:
Happy Birthday Cawacko!

The weirdest thing to me is that the faces of my peers seem to be melting? Almost every woman I know, if not every woman I know, is doing injectables. Then I look at famous women I grew up with like the Friends cast. Anniston held out I think to some extent, or at least she didn't go overboard. But now her face is always bloated. I have been wondering if it's coke bloat. If not, then it's alcohol. (something you might be on the look out for, he he). Once you're 40, what you drank, snorted, smoked, or even ate over the weekend announces itself on your face. With the plastic surgery, cosmetic injectable industry having mainstreamed itself, sometimes I think well, if everyone is going to look younger than me maybe I should do it too. But I don't think they do look younger than me. Just weirder than me.

Also I have always thought I have cancer. It was easier to dismiss when I was in my 20's, though I still always thought I had it. Now I think, you know, this really could be cancer.

Other than that, I really don't have any problems with the whole thing!
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The cancer - lol! I know what you're saying; I've 'come down with it' a few times, too....

So many women I know have become slaves to plastic surgery and Botox. Fortunately, few of them have gone full blow-up doll (the current look they wind up with after having their faces pinched and lips inflated). I'll keep my crow's feet, thanks. The most I'll do at this point is cover the gray hair. And I'll never give up working out, of course.
 
Socrtease said:
I will be 47 in December. In the last year I have dropped over 100 pounds. I can do 100 push-ups in less than 2.5 minutes (shooting for less than 2 minutes like I did in the Army when I was 23). The other day I was moving 60 pound bags of concrete and I was able to pick up 3 of them at one time and move them about 15 feet away. My BP is typically 130/60-65. I would say that since I left the Army in 1991, I am in the best shape I have been in. Being over 40 does not suck, as long as you stay active and eat right.
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...and get laid on a regular basis.
 
So far I've enjoyed my 40's more than I enjoyed my 30's...

In my 30's I mostly worked for other people, I lost my father to a painfull and long battle with Cancer, I struggled with student loans and house payments, I was single and often lonely.

In my 40's Ive worked for myself, I have (so far) a happy and healthy family, I've had more money than ever before in my life, I have three kids and a wonderfull wife I've not been lonely yet.
 
cawacko said:
Anyone else on this board 40 years old? I woke up this morning and my body is giving me the big middle finger. Fvck, getting old sucks.
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40?

Wait until 60 rolls around. :0)

The good news for you is that you still have time to get your body in shape so that your later years won't be physically miserable .. and all jokes aside, that is SERIOUS advice.

I thank the heavens for my Sensei and being introduced to Isshinryu and at an early age. I still look and feel good .. and I have a better physique than guys I know 20 years younger than I am. Can't play basketball the way I used to .. but I can still play.

I don't feel "old" .. don't need Viagra. :0)

Then, there is that other thing about age .. I don't want to be any younger. If I was 20 years younger, I would have missed the 60's. I would have grown up hearing Snoop Dogg instead of the Temptations. I would have missed the era of Civil Rights. I was born at THE most opportune time for being black in America and I am blessed by it.

Younger? .. Naw, not me.

When I die .. again .. I'll die happy and fulfilled.
 
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blackascoal said:
40?

I thank the heavens for my Sensei and being introduced to Isshinryu and at an early age. I still look and feel good .. and I have a better physique than guys I know 20 years younger than I am. Can't play basketball the way I used to .. but I can still play.
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I know what you mean cuz. I thank god I got into cycling back in the 80's. I've averaged around 3,000 miles per year, most years, since 1986 and look and feel far younger than my 50 years.
 
blackascoal said:
40?

Wait until 60 rolls around. :0)

The good news for you is that you still have time to get your body in shape so that your later years won't be physically miserable .. and all jokes aside, that is SERIOUS advice.

I thank the heavens for my Sensei and being introduced to Isshinryu and at an early age. I still look and feel good .. and I have a better physique than guys I know 20 years younger than I am. Can't play basketball the way I used to .. but I can still play.

I don't feel "old" .. don't need Viagra. :0)

Then, there is that other thing about age .. I don't want to be any younger. If I was 20 years younger, I would have missed the 60's. I would have grown up hearing Snoop Dogg instead of the Temptations. I would have missed the era of Civil Rights. I was born at THE most opportune time for being black in America and I am blessed by it.

Younger? .. Naw, not me.

When I die .. again .. I'll die happy and fufilled.
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Excellent insights. I don't want to be younger either. This amazes me. When i was younger i was very into my looks and feared losing them. I would have thought I'd be a wrinkled old basket case by now. Now I'm in my 40's and not only do I think I look good, Im no longer afraid of losing that. I'm much smarter and self assured, I love my career, I have more money. I don't want to die but I find even my fear of that does lessen as time goes by. The only think I miss about my youth are the ones no longer here. I'd like to see my dad again. Other than that, no.
 
Darla said:
Is that the class you race in? :p
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lol... no, but in many running events out here they mark your calf with your age... always humbling to see that '64' go running by you. 'I swear, the old guy just tripped on his own'... don't know how many more times I can get away with saying that. :)
 
Socrtease said:
I will be 47 in December. In the last year I have dropped over 100 pounds. I can do 100 push-ups in less than 2.5 minutes (shooting for less than 2 minutes like I did in the Army when I was 23). The other day I was moving 60 pound bags of concrete and I was able to pick up 3 of them at one time and move them about 15 feet away. My BP is typically 130/60-65. I would say that since I left the Army in 1991, I am in the best shape I have been in. Being over 40 does not suck, as long as you stay active and eat right.
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sounds like you are getting ready for a Spartan race... :)
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I know what you mean cuz. I thank god I got into cycling back in the 80's. I've averaged around 3,000 miles per year, most years, since 1986 and look and feel far younger than my 50 years.
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Yeah being active is everything. The best thing I ever did was put down the damned cigarettes and take up biking. In the winter I don't do it but I do spin classes instead. I think I would look like shit already if I was still smoking and guzzling diet coke instead of water. Diet coke is addictive btw and it will kill you.
 
Superfreak said:
lol... no, but in many running events out here they mark your calf with your age... always humbling to see that '64' go running by you. 'I swear, the old guy just tripped on his own'... don't know how many more times I can get away with saying that. :)
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Oh I know, I've had that happen and it really does make me want to push them. You are probably joking but I'm not.
 
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