Crossing the Line - Bring the pain- I'm almost 30

[roll - gybe]

Ok, many things hurt. I went this week for some orthotics. They feel great.
However, they made me realize how many other parts of my body hurt.

I just came to realize that I am a mess. I am no longer the little kid with the broken goggles who felt no pain despite double vision.

I could tell you what hurts, but I won't. It's a nice list.

I'm struggling with more of the psychological thing. I can ski forever, right? But this body hurting stuff sucks. How did you guys and girls dealing with crossing the line from unlimited rebound to constant pain? I'm standing on it. I need someone to hold my hand (not iceman, though).

[Catbert]

Just pull a limbaugh and become a painkiller addict

[kidwoo]

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[Cono Este]

Lots of Advil. Before and After.

[roll - gybe]

Just pull a limbaugh and become a painkiller addict

I have some vicaprofin upstairs, but I was saving it for a better event.

I bet I can find some oxycontin if I put my wifebeater on and walk 2 blocks and wave my arms a bunch.

[roll - gybe]

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i've pooped in a skin track b/c of that stuff.

I'll post a pic... biglines is down. We all need a rest sometimes.

[Arty50]

I've been going through this the last couple of years myself. I'll be 30 in April. When I crash now, it hurts and hurts longer. My best advice is to stay active. Pilates has pretty much cured the back pain I've lived with for the past 15 years. And biking has helped strengthen the knees I trashed playing football. You've just gotta take better care of yourself. You can't go out every night, drink a 12 pack, and then huck 100 footers the next day.

And as my football coaches used to say, "Get the hell up and rub some magic dirt on it you pussy."

[iceman]

Fine, don't hold my hand, I don't care.

I almost neve taker Advil or any painkillers and I've never been known to turn down a Maker's, and as far as the pain thing, meh, I don't get too much of that, so far at least.

But my attitude in skiing and other sports I do is I just sorta don't care, I do what I feel like doing until I don't feel like doing it anymore. Then I chill. Seems to work.

[LeeLau]

I don't do big stuff that involves huge impacts. I just stick to doing lower impact stuff that's still scary - Im inspired by older guys and girls who're skiing hard well into 60s and 70s

[cdlv]

things i need as i get older after a hard day of skiing: lots of advil, a fatty and a hot tub @ 105 degrees. those seem to do the trick to keep the pains at a minimum.

[kidwoo]

i've pooped in a skin track b/c of that stuff.

I'll post a pic...

Oh do hurry. The anticipation is agonizing.


I just turned 31 and I'm biking and skiing harder than at any other point in my life. It hurts on hard, consecutive days and I can feel the old breaks and such but it's just more about a little warmup. You can whine at the end of the day............but at twenty freakin nine there's nothing stopping you from doing what you want to do.








YET

But yes I do have advil days where they might as well be m&ms. Thank gawd they taste the same on the outside.

[WWCD]

And as my football coaches used to say, "Get the hell up and rub some magic dirt on it you pussy."

HA

My rugby coach told me to do that when I tore my ACL.

[StuntCok]

I used to fight full contact karate and then kickboxing and now that I have crossed 30 (but no longer fight) injuries that I had long forgot about are starting to creap back on their own. I brought back an old rotator cuff injury last week by sleeping (passing out blind drunk, really) on my side. The point is, age hurts anyway so don't stop what you are doing just 'cause you think it might hurt.

[watersnowdirt]

Ok - let me get this straight - you're feeling the pain at 29/30??????

seriously?

I don't know you, but I'm guessing it has less to do with age than the actual complacency and lifestyle change that comes with age. I could be wrong.... but then again...

[G]

I just hang out with people way older than me.

What's really hard to swallow is that there's some 40 and 50 year olds around here who can school me on skiing or biking. I try to use them as inspiration to live to see 40.

[StuntCok]

For me, lifestyle change may have made a bit impact. I went from basically a full time athelete to my current state of a professional alchoholic (I am a stockbroker and take clients out almost every night). Fair point...

[Mofro261]

But seriously, turning 30 is a little young to be jumping on the pain train, and is more a psychological barrier than a physical. 30,31,32,33,34...35 and OUCH!
Host of aches and pains got to me in the past year. Most related to over use problems (why did I decide to run marathons?)

Arty is right, keep in shape or get in shape. Biggest thing is knowing when to ease up- this is a hard one, and my current aches and pains are generally due to going to hard one day and then going hard again too soon.

As for skiing, definitely STOP jumping to flat, sort of a no brainer but this is still how most people blow up their knees. I no longer go and seek the cliffs out but still hit them in the flow. My biggest huck (~60-70ft Vertical -OffYourAxisSkier) came at 32 so you still have a few years of vitality left.
I know skiers in their 60's who still absolutely rip.

Oh yeh, hot tubs help as does a cocktail of alcohol and advil.

[splat]

welcome to the o.g.

[Cirquerider]

I'll trade you. You get 22 years wiser, I get that much younger. IMO, its not quite time to start whining yet.

[StuntCok]

As for hot tubs, the thing I find good here in Japan is the public baths where you can go from really hot baths to really cold ones. My kickboxing coach swore by it. Also, I know one near a ski resort here that is coed and my buddy's fiance is a young fashion model and often she comes up with her friends. I avoid the cold bath on those days for shrinkage reasons...

[cj001f]

this guy (not my pic) says you've got another 50 years before you can start bitching. If you get 1/100th the summits, turns or women he did, you are doing well (every PNW climber has a guidebook or 3 of his)

[nutcase]

I will be 29 soon. I have been pretty active all my life. I definately noticed a difference in my body's ability to recover and just the general ability to do things without injury since I was erly 20's. I really do think that mid 20's is where things start to go a little downhill. Not saying I'm old and busted or anything- but I have started to feel it. It's just that when you are young and < 25 your body is so much more capable of recovery and non-injury.

Course I still party too much and that could be part of the problem.

[StuntCok]

There was a Japanese dude who skied down everest when he was 80 or something, wasn't there?

[ill-advised strategy]

So if I'm 28 and the muscles I pulled in November are still bothering me is it still

"no bitching wait till you're 50!"

because being in pain all day every day is getting old for me too. I love skiing but that couple of hours a day is pretty much ruining the other 21 or 22.

Sometimes it makes me wonder if I should move somewhere warm and try to surf and ride motorcycles.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Just turned 30 last summer and pushing it more than I ever have.

I hope I get all old and stuff soon before I kill myself.