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Am going to have to limit my participation on Surly, as it appears the macular degeneration is advancing to a level where I find it very difficult to read anything even with my 3x readers and a magnif

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Pics of mom?

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Here's the worst though.  I'm sixty six, still working, still running ten (or twelve) minute miles as long as I want.  Good health, good shape. Happily married for forty-three years to the nicest, cut

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28 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Looks like you survived Lake of the Ozarks.

We postponed that because of the rain. We spent extra time in KC doing some small museums including a TWA museum. They have a restored Connie and a DC-3 that is waiting on engines. I'll post some pictures in the airplane thread when I get a chance. I know you're a fan of those planes. 

 

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32 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

Yesterday morning the muscles in my lower back just seized up into steel bands.  They have eased up today, but still sore. 

I hate walking hunched over.

Yep, back started to seize up a couple of hours ago. I’m horizontal now, waiting for this to pass. 

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So one day after a shower I notice a mole below my bellybutton that I hadn’t seen before. It slips my mind and I ignore it. Few months after that I notice it again and take a look. Fucking thing is odd shaped but, more concerning, it’s slightly raised and scaly. So I scratch it and it bleeds. Never seeing this before I punch up google and get back cancer. Several types but most consistent with melanoma. So I ignore it again. See it a few months later. It still bleeds if you scratch it enough. Google again - cancer.

This time I make an appointment with the skin doc. I start to get bent two days before because I’ve already had a cancer battle (still a surveillance patient at MDA) and cannot put up with this shit again. I get to the appointment and the doc takes out a mini-telescope and has a look for three seconds. She tells me it’s a seborrheic keratosis, non-cancerous and completely common. Especially among older folks.

I look that shit up when I get home and sure enough, it looks like melanoma but is like 100x more common. So sucks getting old but fuck google when I search for a relatively simple mole/blemish thing. “seborrheic keratosis” didn’t pop out at all, just cancer, cancer, cancer.

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Turned 41 last week and yesterday we moved back into our house post-hurricane Sally repairs (long story). Damn does my body hurt something fierce. My hips and knees are on fire. Yet my two new shoulders are fine. The pain was so bad last night it was hard for me to go to sleep and I was exhausted. Getting old sucks!

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9 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm 47 and I can't recommend walking a few miles a day enough. I slacked off when the freeze hit and noticed a difference in everything. Tired, depressed, no libido, eyc.

Get a dog to up the pace. Luna gets me through three miles in less than 20 minutes.

 

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That's some fast-ass walking. 

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14 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm 47 and I can't recommend walking a few miles a day enough. I slacked off when the freeze hit and noticed a difference in everything. Tired, depressed, no libido, eyc.

Get a dog to up the pace. Luna gets me through three miles in less than 20 minutes.

 

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3 miles in 20 minutes?  That's more like a run.

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6 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

I never "ran" that fast.  That's 6:40 min miles.  Best I ever did was 7:30 min miles for a 4-mile "run".  It felt like I was running.  'Course now, my knees are shot.

6:40 mile would have placed 4th in the 45-50 age group in the 2019 Turkey trot in Austin. It’s blazing fast. Close to elite runner level at that age. 

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17 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm 47 and I can't recommend walking a few miles a day enough. I slacked off when the freeze hit and noticed a difference in everything. Tired, depressed, no libido, eyc.

Get a dog to up the pace. Luna gets me through three miles in less than 20 minutes.

 

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Do you not allow Luna to use the bathroom or stop to smell every little thing?

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5 hours ago, nnm said:

6:40 mile would have placed 4th in the 45-50 age group in the 2019 Turkey trot in Austin. It’s blazing fast. Close to elite runner level at that age. 

I had a buddy that I used to run with at lunch.  He would run 6 miles and I would run 4.  We would start and finish at basically the same time.  I placed 3rd in my age group at a mud run one time in Houston.  It was a 5K.  /csb

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On 5/27/2021 at 4:38 PM, MissingInAction said:

Not everytime. That would take an hour, which we do on occasion, but sometimes she just wants to go.

Its more like 25-30 minutes but we did our lap in 20 a few times.

I think the point is people found it amusing that you advocated going for regular walks, which is really good advice, then said you do 3 miles in 20 minutes.  That isn't anything close to resembling a walk.  That may cause an average 47year old to drop dead.

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2 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

I think the point is people found it amusing that you advocated going for regular walks, which is really good advice, then said you do 3 miles in 20 minutes.  That isn't anything close to resembling a walk.  That may cause an average 47year old to drop dead.

I think the real point is that everyone is calling BS on doing 3 miles in 20 minutes. Possible? Yes, for a close-to-elite 47-yo runner. Probable? Not at all.

 

A very brisk walk is a 15 minute mile. He is probably doing a little over a mile in that 20 minutes. 
 

I need to see a strava or Garmin link proving it to believe it. And if someone is doing 3 miles in 20 minutes, they are wearing a Garmin or strava device because they’re a close-to-elite runner. 

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I'm not going full Rocko here.

We've had some good laps where I was impressed with our time.

Its the same lap we've done for the past 4 years. I look at the microwave clock before we leave then look at it when we walk in the door. 

20 minutes is bullshit. 

 

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10 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm not going full Rocko here.

We've had some good laps where I was impressed with our time.

Its the same lap we've done for the past 4 years. I look at the microwave clock before we leave then look at it when we walk in the door. 

20 minutes is bullshit. 

 

Yet you claimed 20 minutes in 2 different posts, and said you did it "a few times".  Glad you came clean.

Let's not miss the good advice in that going for regular walks everyday is a really good habit.  If you can't carve out 40-60 minutes a day, try for multiple 20-30 minutes walks.  Early morning and evening walks are a good way to beat the heat as well as convenient with most schedules.  You just have to make yourself do it.

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11 hours ago, nnm said:

I think the real point is that everyone is calling BS on doing 3 miles in 20 minutes. Possible? Yes, for a close-to-elite 47-yo runner. Probable? Not at all.

 

A very brisk walk is a 15 minute mile. He is probably doing a little over a mile in that 20 minutes. 
 

I need to see a strava or Garmin link proving it to believe it. And if someone is doing 3 miles in 20 minutes, they are wearing a Garmin or strava device because they’re a close-to-elite runner. 

Yeah, I normally ride MTB.  But my frame broke in August so I started hiking the same trails and some others.  I naturally walk fast because I have a 34.5" inseam.  I always have to slow down for people.  And, while hiking, I felt like I was pushing a little bit to keep cardio involvement.  Definitely not lollygagging around in the woods. I was sort of dismayed that I was doing 3 something miles in about 45 minutes.  Sometimes 5mph gets bandied around as a brisk walking pace, and I wasn't touching that, not correcting for GPS error.  Looks like 4mph is a more realistic speed.

 

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I might have posted this before-maybe on the old site, but read Younger Next Year. If you do it right you can be active and healthy well into your 80’s. Eat healthy and work out a lot. Eating well is key. You can’t exercise the excess calories away.

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My friends dad is in his mid 80's and still going strong. Always ate light, and ran 5 miles a day into his late 60s. 

Now he gives zero fucks and will eat a plate of bacon every morning with his Miller lite. Dude is really fun to get day drunk with then pass out in the recliners around 3 pm.

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My ex-ftl was riding his bike to work in the 70's. Ate healthy, didn't drink excessively. In his 70's he would bike 400 miles across Iowa across Iowa with us. 

At the end, he was alive and at home but helpless. I wonder if he was so healthy that his body maintained but his mind did not.

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I might have posted this before-maybe on the old site, but read Younger Next Year. If you do it right you can be active and healthy well into your 80’s. Eat healthy and work out a lot. Eating well is key. You can’t exercise the excess calories away.

Eat healthy or eat less? I’m currently a little bit of both but I still can’t knock the pizza and occasional burger. I just now chase them with kale juice, turmeric ginger shots and some live culture kombucha. 

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Just love going to bed at night feeling fine and waking up the next morning with some new random ache and pain. Woke up yesterday morning with some intense pain in my hand and wrist. Feels like it's totally sprained and it hurts like hell to even hold a pen. Who knows. Maybe I was having some sex dream and was beating off all night. If so I don't remember it, or any of the pleasure. Just the pain after. Either that or Mrs. Mo, is torturing me at night. 

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what has surprised me, as i have gotten older, is how much time I spend sitting in 100SF windowless Exam Rooms.

one minor blip in your blood work, and you find yourself being passed around from specialist to specialist which ultimately ends up to be nothing.

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