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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Sep 23, 2017 - 08:58pm PT
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Zip,
Try to be "yogi" about it all - whatever your body has to give on any particular day is just fine. The fact that you're still climbing now in your late 50's is fabulous in and of itself!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Sep 23, 2017 - 10:58pm PT
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Jim is a phenomenon in his own right, I had nothing to do with it!
But I am happy that Jim's out there
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L
climber
Tiptoeing through the chilly waters of life
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Sep 25, 2017 - 04:50pm PT
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From what I hear, as long as you're not waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom for the 23rd time, you're not "old" yet.
And I really resonated with Ed's comment: But I am happy that Jim's out there
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 26, 2017 - 06:52am PT
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Just keep at it.
I'm 61 and did my 61st ascent of ancient art yesterday. And that's my day job, which Helps keep me in shape for my real climbing...
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Sep 26, 2017 - 07:36am PT
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You'll probably still be wondering the same thing at 75, 80, etc.
I used to think "life" ended at 40, then 45, maybe 55, oh 60 had to surely be the capstone.
I've given up fixating on a terminus of "life". Do what I can, and keep Ibu nearby and my orthopedist and hair colorist on speed dial.
Susan
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 26, 2017 - 09:15am PT
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Man, at 57, I struggle just to maintain a walking program. Real climbing of any kind is, in any functional sense, out of the question. But I still keep the soft machine alive, through a keen diet, daily (4-5 days p. wk.) light strengthening and stretching: all for its own sake and just in case the green light ever comes on again, then I'll be ready.
Had a lucid dream last night that I was doing some hard bouldering, and no doubt, that daily routine keeps the neurons and engrams firing so that I can still apply the power and work out the sequences, if only while asleep!
Point being, just keep routing around in your toy chest for the ones that still amuse you, and stay out at the edge of the envelope with whatever your body allows. At a certain point, the reward is in the maintenance and the struggle.
Even Reinhold Messner at one point said something like, when he was working out his traverse of Antarctica and the Gobi Desert, pure walking is where it's at!
Never give up. Stay frosty. Work it out!
Otherwise, you got zip!
Yours,
TarBusted
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 26, 2017 - 09:26am PT
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pure walking is where it's at!
I try to embrace that ideal when The Wife exorts me to exert but all I can think of is Bataan, not that I was there, mind you. To wit, for many years walking was purely the means of achieving alpine excess. It's hard to teach an olde dog.
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