About to turn 50 and am too tired to continue

[warthog]

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Agree with Hutash. Although not nearly as drastic, going through the flooding of our house has provided a ton of perspective. House flooded on Sept 26th, construction should start sometime in March. We have been living here since it happened, since we didn&#39;t lose furniture, appliances, etc., just floors and 2 ft of walls. I bought a Snowbird pass for me and my daughter on Sept 24th (I think the cutoff was Sept 25th). 2 days later we flooded. What great timing. I went out for 5 days a few weeks ago, and heading back for 6 days in March. I am so glad I pulled the trigger. If I had been able to wait, I probably would have done the &quot;smart&quot; thing and not have spent the cash. Skiing is my happy place, and those 5 days with friends were much needed. I surprised the hell out of myself and went bell to bell several days, logging about 130,000 ft of vert in 5 days. I felt 25 again. I guess hauling half your house to a dump site for months is good training. Finding your happy place at 51 can be tough. I always have a project, whether wrenching on my Jeep, restoring my daughter&#39;s Bronco, learning body work and auto paint, or fixing our busted ass house, I am always busy. Finding others to do that stuff with is the challenge. With skiing, I have peers. With many other things I am alone. I am still not sure which I prefer.</p>

[Meadow Skipper]

Hutash - FKNA!

And warthog too.

[garyfromterrace]

Hey, good to see hutash posting and it is a thoughtful, insightful and well written post as usual. So going to chime into the old fuck trying to still get at it conversation. I am due (may be a bit overdue) for 2 knee replacements but my knee guy said go hard, get strong and bike, ski, tour as much as possible so you are strong when it comes time for surgery. The next big tweak or catastrophic crash/knee injury means the knife. I am taking it to heart and had a pretty good biking season, hitting the gym fairly regularly and I am at ski day 52 now and going for 100. Skiing a fair bit with the dog too, shes probably got 40 days in so that means at least 40 of those ski days have 1200 - 2500ft vert as well. But man, it is tougher than when I was 40 for sure. Stretching and whirlpool hot tub, sauna are pretty key. Finding new things hurting as well like hip flexor or hip (something is not great), but I am plugging at it just the same. This year I am feeling ripping down powder double blacks at mach chicken with air time and GS turns are a thing of the past. I am having fun switching it up and hard boot boarding and telemarking the odd day. This is keeping it interesting, using different muscles, and possibly helping keep the 100 day goal attainable (hopefully). One can only try. edit to add I turned 64 in Dec.

[Cono Este]

Getting older is no joke, you’re gonna lose people, medical challenges etc. I’ve felt the same way, not much I care about anymore. You learn what you are, and are not, and settle in. Not much I haven’t seen or done, luckier than most.

I was on a chair once, with a 90 yr old. I complimented him, and ask him how the fuck he was up here? He laughed, said he wouldn’t trade places with me, that when he was my age, he could only use 1/2 is brain, and now he doesn’t worry about the shit I do.

Some truth to that.

[skiJ]

Thank you, magg.s -
there is wisdom in yesterday's posts, Thank you. !
And it's really Nice to see hutash back it these pages !

skiJ

[buttahflake]

Gonna be Sixty next month. Flat light days can go fuck themselves! Seriously it’s gotta be just right for me to deal with the Alpine hill these days. Nordic is my new jam! Y’all want a challenging and demanding but seriously rewarding day on skis? Get on some modern skate gear and go rip it at the local Nordic center. Oh and for the single fellas, Nordic chicks are smoking hot.

[fastfred]

"Why are you watching Women's cross country skiing on TV?""


I dunno, I just am. I"m not rally watching, it's just on."


What I really wanted to say, "I mean, just look at those asses and thighs, the paper towels are to wipe the drool, these are some of the most amazing women I have ever seen. Thank god for skin suits. Thank god for those legs. If anyone of them wanted to squeeze my head with those thighs I'm game."

[Trackhead]

And then consider biathlon. Hot women WITH GUNS!

[dan_pdx]

I turned 50 this year and am loving all the feedback/advice from those of you who have passed this way before me. I think my goal at 50 may be to do what some of you guys are doing in your mid-60s and above. Thanks for the inspiration!

[uglymoney]

Hutash!

I am 53, not a veterinarian, and my house hasn't yet burned down. In honor of the return of the great Hutash, here is a random picture of my dog who helps me through every day.

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[plugboots]

Why stop doing things you like, that aren’t self-damaging or bother other people?

[skiJ]

plug-, physical limitations and the potential for self-damage become real factors -
The day I tried to ski in the 2020 season was Painful ( a degenerative spinal injury that goes back decades and was not properly diagnosed ). and then
in 2022, without a fracture, I broke my neck three degenerative vertebrae, and two degenerative discs. I did rehab. and PT for two years )
pain is always there -

damage Has been done -
it's important I not cause damage to others trying to ski like I did when I was fifty (50)
( no Risk, but Strong and sometimes fast )

My response to your post is
Know your own limits
( I am still figuring-out what mine are )

roll on, plug- !

skiJ

[warthog]

I raced X-C in highschool. It is the best full body workout next to swimming and rowing, I think. The scenery in swimming blows (in the pool at least). Rowing, you just see the same section of river. X-C you get nature, hot ass, and the vision of blood as your eyes blur and you pass out due to hypoxia. Watching X-C with my wife once and she asked why they all collapse at the end. I mean, being olympic athletes I guess I saw her point. I just told her that X-C was the one sport that mid race I might have opted to ski off a cliff and end it all instead of finish. Man it was fun though. Plus, spinning a 360 on skate skis is just way easier.

[The AD]

I'll bet XC skiing is actually better than swimming. It's very easy to more or less float your legs in swimming.

[riser4]

I was so close to being capable of putting on some classic gear and shuffling around and then I had a setback. My PT thinks I should try it soon just for the stretching motion if we still have snow next week. The aqua fitness workouts tgat I do at the pool always have a portion where we do several variations on a XC movement in the water, with and without devices for added resistance. I doesn't help watching my wife disappear in the distance when I drop her off at the neighborhood trail.

[skaredshtles]

I was so close to being capable of putting on some classic gear and shuffling around and then I had a setback.

What happened? I must have missed something...

[muted reborn]

Underwater cross country skiing sounds hardcore.

[m2711c]

it's a big step up from underwater basket weaving.

[XXX-er]

According to the TGR intelligentsia going nordic= going ghey not that theres anything wrong with it

[Boosh]

my pops is up for a TKR on his right knee in July, he’s 68 and still fairly active, we went skiing last weekend and he’s slowed down a bunch over the past few years but still gets after it on the groomers

I have stressed the importance of pre-hab and being fit ahead of time but he seems to think he will just be fine getting the operation and doing PT afterwards. He’s gained weight in recent years and doesn’t make the healthiest choices - do you guys have any advice on how to get him in gear prior to the surgery so that he can come back solid afterwards? He’s kinda stubborn so I just wanna be tactful about my approach, He’s said he wants to ski til at least 75 and I’d love to keep getting out there with him

[Bunion 2020]

Find him a smoking hot PT who will work him like a rented mule.

[riser4]

Find him a smoking hot PT who will work him like a rented mule.

When you find her, I need office contact info too.

[riser4]

What happened? I must have missed something...

Not h ing really "happened". Health issues including a bad back developed over the last 25 years of working IT, raising a family, and putting every one else first lead to being fat and lazy. This includes a lot of pain from developed back and foot issues some of which are related to muscular/skeletal predisposition. I've been working on reversing which includes varied aqua fitness classes 3x a week and PT plus dietary changes. I was feeling relatively good mid January, right as our winter decided to actual become a real winter for once. Then I got some awful non-covid respiratory thing which laid me up. I lost ten pounds in 5 days from lack of apetite. I flirted with pneumonia, and didn't exercise for three weeks. That plus having to sleep for two weeks in an unaccustomed position to be able to stop coughing enough to sleep fucjed my back up. I'm back in the pool 3x and working the PT again but my back is taking its sweet ass time. It's sensitive to any bumps, shakes, or rattles. So xc skiing, while very high on my list of things to do next, causes some anxiety. I'll get there. Just our snow will probably be gone down at my elevation where I have some free trails.

[Bunion 2020]

When you find her, I need office contact info too.

You willing to travel? The Bozone has a lot of attractive PTs. I was lucky enough to have 2 and best of all, they really knew their business.

[Self Jupiter]

Hang in there riser. I believe you’ll come out on the other side surprised at what you can still do.

But I feel for your loss of progress due to a coincidental health issue while you were doing the work to get out being acutely fucked up, it sucks. That process feels like walking the tight rope even when I’m not sick.