I'm Gettin' Too Old To Do That!

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Age Behind the Words

There is a moment, somewhere in the middle years, when you hear yourself say it.

I’m gettin’ too old to do that.

It comes out quiet, almost courteous, the way someone excuses themselves from a conversation they are still listening to. But tucked inside those words is a small surrender, the kind that happens before anyone else notices. A door that you close from the inside.

The Arts, Technology, and Sport

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 19:37:32 +0000

These are my year-end totals for running over this past year. A year in which I spent the first three weeks of January having numerous invasive health tests done, which limited my ability to get out on the trails to start the year. A year that had me fighting metatarsalgia in my left foot for over a month, which kept me at lower mileage as I nursed it back to strength. A year that had me fighting COVID for two weeks straight and stripped me of nearly three months of fitness in just those two weeks of downtime. See, sport…especially endurance sports…push you to your limits, reset your expectations, humble you, increase your empathy, inspire you, call you out when you think of phoning it in, and most importantly in my case…keep my mental health in check. I guess you could say those first six things are a recipe for the last.

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I'm Gettin' Too Old To Do That!

The Age Behind the Words

The Arts, Technology, and Sport