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(10-19-2021, 02:47 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]... like my brain muscles.

(10-19-2021, 02:18 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Just finished my 20th season staffing my company's racing events. It's a lot of physical work, building and tearing down tents, scaffolding, trusswork, lugging boxes, etc. It's the main exercise I get for the year, and a great change of pace from sitting in the office or working in the warehouse. Guys on our crew tend to "time out" in their late 50s or early 60s, and at 53, I'm starting to feel it. I needed a few extra days off when I got home from the last race a few weeks ago. I'm determined not to hang up my tool bag any time soon, but it was a bit of a wake up call that I need to work on my physical strength over the winter, or it's just going to be harder when we go back to the track next spring.

I also want to make sure I keep up the stamina for long-distance riding for many more years to come.

Over the last 20 years I've worked with many patients who are in the "self neglect and abuse business", and when things start falling apart it hits them way too hard, not just physically, but psychologically and socially. Destroys their life, kills all the joy, makes everything they ever accomplished meaningless. Winter came and they didn't get out of Dodge.

What I've learned is that early 40s is an age when that "health train" is leaving the station, but if you haven't been too cruel to yourself and make an effort you can still catch it in your 50s. You'll be puffing and panting to catch it, and will probably hurt a lot for a while after you get on it, but make sure you get on it. Pain is a different beast, and it humbles everyone. People often justify destroying their health with having a fat bank account, and from what I've had a misfortune to see in my line of work, not having money is much better than not having health. One can't just throw money at pain and make it go away.

So, my middle aged friends - all aboard, the train is about to leave the station.

'14 CB1100 STD 5 speed

I so much agree with what Tod wrote : health is wealth !