Anyone realize their best years are behind them? (Page 3)

Are you sure about that?

Best years?  So far, I haven't found an age I'd go back to instead of where I am now.  (That might change one day though.) 

I am 42 and I am faster, stronger, and I look better than I did at any other point in my life.

Rogillio, do you need a hug?

Given that I'm only 34...

I hope the new 25-30 years be my best years...

I understand where you are coming from my friend..  I doubt I'll be running sub 6min /miles (just barely) back when I was younger.   The best years are behind me since I'm just like my buddy Slim Chin  cause I"m faaasstt..

do I still have good years left sure..    To me it's more of a health/injury issue and the recovery time sucks.   

Thanks, no, I'm good.  I have lived my life the best way I knew how at the time.  I have done more in my 48 years than many do in 3 lifetimes so I have very few regrets. 

Live large and swing for the fence my friends! 

Best Years!  Life is just getting started for me.

I just started triathlon last year.  I am 51 years old. I did 5 sprints, 1 oly and 1 HIM last year.  I have had 6 knee surgeries (including 2 reconstructions), 2 ab surgeries (hernias) and was hit by a car and have a floating disc in my lower back.  I have never felt better since training and doing tiathlons and my best years are definitely ahead. 

PS.  I also have a 2 year-old that I refuse to miss time with.  If it is a choice between him and training sorry tri but my wife and Jake comes first.

Best wishes all!

Tom

I try not to think in those terms.  I don't have a "best year". I only have a "best day" and that's the one I'm living right now.  I don't want to be as good as or better than I was at 35, or 40. I just want to be as good as I can be today.

And for the record, I started doing tris at 40. Got on the podium for the first time last year at age 46. So, yes I can continue to improve performance-wise, it's just measured relative to my age group, not to myself from the past.

I'm positive that if I had started earlier that I would be faster by now....but then again, you can always say that.

I'm just excited to be running on my two feet and seeing with my own eyes.

This sport does nothing less than show me how blessed I am, regardless of my speed.

X whatever by now

OUTSTANDING perspective; run across these a few times a year; ALWAYS a needed slap in the face

I will be hitting 49 in a few months...just getting into Tri's this yr...as a matter of fact have signed up for a HIM in Sept.....gulp. I have experience in road and MTB racing...and a couple of Du's so not oblivious to what is ahead of me.....gulp.

Its amazing how memory serves an individual...especial when moments of glory filled your past and you think that as you get older,the best is behind you....like life, there are peaks and valleys...our memories of past accomplishments is what gets us thru those valleys until we reach another peak...those peaks may not be the same as in the past but rarely in life are any two the same...each unique and different in there own way....reflective of that current moment in time and creating a new memory that will eventually get you thru another valley on your way to another peak....perhaps your best ever.

Our best in never behind us....it is always infront of us and it just evolves as life does....now were are my shoes....I have a  10K run to do....boy does my back hurt...I must be getting old

Any year not yet lived has the potential to be the best ever.

My only job now is put myself in a position to experience as many of those years as I can.

I have no time for reminiscing, I am to busy planning the future.

to Rogillio, in 2 years time you'll be the youngest in your AG again.

At 45 this is my 3rd year of triathlon, prior to this i've always been a cyclist and up until 3 years ago kidded myself I was fit. Devoting our time to bringing up 3 children over the last 19 years the weight gradually went up until I was close to 15st, The kids don't need as much of my time now and i'm back below 13st, feel great and i'm looking forward to my first IronMan later this year.