Hi Oldun

I think stretching and flexibility is in some ways more important than maintaining strength as one ages.

I've just started going to a yoga class which has shown up just how stiff I have become. The class has the added benefit in that I am the only bloke amongst a bevy of delightful women.

Strange isn't it that when you are ancient all the females smile at you and want to talk. Years ago they took one look and ran a mile. Even the dogs come up and sniff me now.

Congrats on completing the season's first muddy 20-miler. It's not about age. It's a matter of posing a potential threat, but wearing a smile and general pleasantness dispell that notion. Females look at you when you don't look at them. This may not apply in all communities...like in my community which is full of "menopausal head cases". No worry. The dogs are another matter.

...sounds like you should consider moving Joe!

LWM,
How come when I right click to view your image beneath your username, it doesn't enlarge like mine. Is it because that is the size of the original that you downsized and then imported.
Dave.

I must still be a youngster as they still run away .............

I once stumbled across a young lady (20 ish) who had decided to commit suicide by jumping into Aysgarth Falls. Ten minutes talking to me and she decided that life wasn't so bad and she went homw...... Oldun, should I regard this as a complement?

Got to think about this one slowcoach.

I've had a recent bout of injuries - back problem that I picked up when doing the Pennine Way - shoulder problem that I picked up when an osteopath was trying to do something to sort my back problem - and mysterious shooting pains in my knee. I put all this down to getting older and having spent loads of money trying to get wierd and wonderful people trying to mend them, I have decided that the answer is getting out and walking again (I had more or less stopped because people were advising me to do no exercise whilst they sorted things - hmmm). Getting out walking seems to be loosening things up again. Bring it on.

Of course I don't consider myself old yet, but it does seem to be a feature of social occasions now that me and my friends tend to talk a lot more about ailments. Does that wear off as you get older?

Pensioner in 2025 (or a bit later no doubt by the time this Govt has had their way).

That injury sounds like a sciatica malady.