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One of those day's when you realise you are getting old

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swittle
Is that over 55kg, DT? ;)
Dec 2021
9:53pm, 4 Dec 2021
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Derby Tup
I certainly qualify for that switts 🐽
Dec 2021
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swittle
Me too, DT - and some! :-o
Dec 2021
10:04pm, 4 Dec 2021
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TROSaracen
I get a profound feeling of frailty, stiffness, weakness and uncoordinated these days. I remember feeling bomb proof, robust, unstoppable - but that’s long gone.

Still reckon I could go near 10 hours for an Ironman, 4 hours for 100 miles TT, but reckon the stand alone marathon performance is deteriorating fast. I’ll find out Boston (Lincs) in April, be delighted with 3:20-3:25, used to knock out <3:10 with no specific

training.

Fighting hard to hold into what I can though!
Dec 2021
10:07pm, 4 Dec 2021
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swittle
Such sparse laurels as I possess are very thinly spread these days. ;)
Dec 2021
9:25am, 5 Dec 2021
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stilldreamingofawhitechristmas
I will be the oldest person from our club running at today's XC!
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LouiseRuns πŸŒΉπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί
When you think of something that qualifies for this thread, and then can't remember it (and the "something" definitely wasn't memory-related...)
Dec 2021
3:07pm, 5 Dec 2021
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Nord SledRunner
I've given in and started wearing longs not shorts in runs when it's minus degrees. Long socks and 2-in-1 shorts do quite nicely, but it's more the thought that, if I had a fall in the forest and had to call for help, people would say, what was that old man thinking, running in shorts in the depth of winter.

So it's more a case of acting old because people expect it and give me leeway for it. If people are giving away free leeway, why argue.
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Cerrertonia
Going with my son to watch the James Bond film this evening, and working out that it's 40 years since I last saw one.
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Velocirappingpaper
Pointing out to my daughter that she's only half a generation younger than job advertisements offering 5' an hour for men and 3'6d an hour for women for the same job being normal.

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