real age or usat age?

Me too, makes me always take a step back and have to think.

I turned 40 in November ago and when my dad and sister were giving me a hard time about being over the hill, excited, my wife simply said,   "well he's been racing as a 40 year old all year so the birthday is just meaningless now - plus he's now racing masters!"

See now you're thinking like a triathlete.  Pretty soon you'll be eating breakfast in the shower. 

............thats because you are training so much more.

Well come on......see what you got...we ain't laying down!!!

This has happened to me several times.  I fill out my race age much more often than my actual age, so I have to correct it.  They look at me like I'm already having senior moments.  :-)

It get as confusing as writing the proper year a few days after New Year. 

Even worse is if you do more than just tris... as someone who does about 6 pure running events a year and tris I'm constantly having to think.... "ok so how old am I for this?"

My friend and I sang happy Birthday to each other at New Year's midnight this year. We each turn 55 in September. Happy new AG. I just wish some of my regular running races would let me age up this year too, we do have to remember not to make a mistake about it when it does matter. I went to a 60th BD party last Dec and it really was anticlimactic--in my mind he had been 60 for 11 months already.

To make matters really confusing, the cross country ski rules are opposite. My friends 60th birthday was on the same day as the Craftsbury marathon and he had to race as 59 because it's your age at the start of the season.