Anyone interested in a masters athlete / older athlete forum? (Page 2)

^^This.

There are specific issues that come up for both genders around late 40s-early 50s that impact training and (maybe more to the specific point of a forum) sometimes beg for a bit more well-rounded support and clarification than just "HTFU" (which is probably a better all-purpose response when talking to people who build and repair muscle more readily).  Don't know that there needs to be a forum, but it might be an improvement on having multiple threads in the Tri Talk archives that address "the older athletes" without further context to identify them.

Having trained and raced in my HS and college years, then come back after a lapse to running in my late 20s-early 30s, then having gotten off the couch yet again in my mid-40s (into my 50s), there's a lot of difference.  I'm about as fast as I was in HS, but getting and staying there takes a whole lot more focus and smarts.

Yes, but prob at higher age ~50 or so.  There are physiologic differences in older athletes which dictate some changes in training methods to get best results at lower risk of injury.

I'm interested in masters training and racing but I think the real differences in such starts around 45 years old. Heck a 36 or 38 year old just won an open class race at the USA indoor track meet tonight. 

Hey, I thought 50 was the new 35.
I don't think there is any reason to seperate the forum into seperate Age groups.  We all have the same issues.  Those of us in the other AG just have more mistake to learn from.

Longevity is a family trait.   The oldsters in my family are in their 90's and a few are at the century mark.

Me, I'm only 53, so am still considered a young one.  I plan on living to be 100 and don't plan on being old until I'm 99 or so.    Living this triathlete lifestyle goes a long way to making that possible.   This helps me retard the aging process as much as possible, squeezing as much quality of life that I can. 

Old is a state of mind, if you don't mind it don't matter.

I also spend most of my time with younger people.  This helps a lot with avoiding falling into that mental trap of letting the mind age prematurely.


I see no need of an older forum.   We all have the same concerns here.  And we can learn from each other, despite our relative ages.  We all became sentient sometime in our late teens or twenties, and for the most part, that sentient remains up until our allotted time, at whatever time that is for each individual.

Life is short, but the years are long......





Edited by MadMathemagician 2011-02-28 12:30 AM

please no...I do this sport mainly to avoid the whole age topic entirely, except of course what AG I'm in.  otherwise, I don't want any reminders..

"older athlete" sounds like that worn out sock that needs to be thrown away, "masters" anything just means OLD !

No.