A spoonful of cement in your morning coffee?
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have a look here - seems to be a large number of studies cited but results seem inconclusive.
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As per @Sparky’s comments on the other thread,
Perhaps not for this thread but what do you plan to do in retirement?
When I am not injured I can train and work (my kids are grown up) I am not sure what I’m going to do with that extra time 
A few years away for me yet, but without kids\grankids I’ll have quite a bit of free time, although as I’ve commented before I can easily go missing for hours on end and have no idea what I’ve actually done of substance 
problem is that I don’t watch TV much either.
The GF is 5 years younger and is likely to get hit by the pension change to 57, unless she can fund herself entirely before then, although she has very few outgoings.
My plan is some travelling but it would be unfair to leave home for months on end! Other than that it’s likely to be things like exercise and doing things like the Wainwright’s etc., all need money of course.
Also like going places and although we’ve got some good local venues we are limited and I’ve seen a lot of places round here already.
What does anyone else plan to do, or do already? Anyone with bucket lists?
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I probably have 5 years left in my job, most are beyond help but I would love to help those that want it more, I’ve asked for a move to a specialist unit. It’s what I joined for.
Faster car ( non electric )
Slower bike ( it will probably be faster ) I certainly won’t be.
Volunteer at an animal sanctuary.
Help my son set his life up.
Grow old ( older ) quite disgracefully to be honest.
Die a happy man with no regrets.
The last one is by far the most important.
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We’ve got a camper and plan to spend significant amounts of time exploring places we haven’t been. We had hoped to do 2 or 3 years travelling around Europe, but Brexit has put paid to that, so it’ll have to be just summers now, which means the plan to sell the house and sit on the cash for a few years will need modifying, as we’ll need a base for the winter… that means a later finish to work sadly…still targeting 58 or so if we can manage it.
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Nice.
My Doris wants one of those vw camper things…
Crazy money and hard to park !
Great fun though
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I like to see my wife & I taking a nice long, relaxed tour of Europe as well rather than the frantic fortnight we’ve been limited to through kids & work restrictions.
I can also see myself volunteering to help maintain the Clwydian Range, there’s a group that builds the dykes, lays hedges, burns heather, maintains paths etc.
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I’m in a halfway house at the moment: quit job, opted to take final salary pension from 55 (Jan 22) got a much less stressful much lower paying 3 day/week job.
Really it’s enabled me to train hard, and have some normal life on top and I’ll tick off some bucket list events and have a good go at being competitive in M55-59.
The big change will be in 5 years - mortgage paid off, Mrs TRO can start her pension - the 2 pensions plus no mortgage should see some travel bucket list etc for us as I can’t see me doing Triathlon then.I will need some other stuff to fill my days at that point.
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I thought you’d already retired and took your pension at 50 TBH? Must have been the change to 3 days, or is that January.
I must have misunderstood.
Doing what you have done is an option for me in two years (55)
See how the figures are then, if I was full time now I’d 100% go with your plan.
What is the new job?
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Still finance based, but work for a local family run wedding venue. Bit of bookkeeping, some other financial stuff (numbers for Covid loss insurance claim, financial modelling for a loan to build some self catering lodges etc).
Enough to be interesting and see the outcomes but way less stressful than being a cog in a corporate machine reporting results to the Stock exchange.
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A part time job or lower paid job with less stress is an option for me in about 4 years. But it depends on what is available so it probably makes more sense to stay where I am for a short time longer.
The Brexit changes to staying in Europe is a frustration in case I did fancy a bit longer away.
One thing I did think about was essentially keeping the current house and maybe doing something like 12 months rent in other locations in the UK so I’d have a base to explore or visit from there. But it would be a bit of upheaval and I’m not totally sure the GF would be keen.
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Is that what you do now?
I must have been told a million times I couldn’t do your job …. It’s just normal now.
IREALLY couldn’t do your job, I can hardly turn a computer on.
Plus a two/ three day week is a lot easier than a five for us both.
I certainly went faster when I went from 5 days a week to mostly 2 but I was 46, you seem to have done very well to date tri wise and the move to 55 should see you right up there, but from a personal point of view, if your keen… and you do sound that way, it’s so easy to overtrain.
I’m seeing swim and bike results now that are equal too or even better than when I was hitting 16/18 hours a week, currently doing 10-12 max with a hyrox focus.
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Would you rent yours out?
I think we all have these plans, I’m certainly looking forward to it, but I think it was Jorgan who commented once
“ don’t wish your life away”
Which is a good call.
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I am heading towards 60 at a rate of knots and have always done some form of training for as long as I can remember .I still enjoy and have the desire to train daily though a tad slower. BUT I am finding the need to compete/complete in events is dwindling ,I still get a buzz once completed an event .
But my question is
Is it a age thing or is it something else over the last few years I seem have found the days leading to an event whether a local event or major event unbearable and full of self-doubt and often end up not taking part ,If I can get to race day I am fine
Just wondering
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Definitely having a lot of this recently for some reason, except for some of the shorter races. I find it worse for multi-sport though.
Oddly I was quite relaxed for the marathon last week, I think probably because I’d accepted it was better to chance it and DNF, strange how the brain works!
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we started to reduce our working hours when we hit 60 and retired fully at 65 after selling our business.
at 68, we are enjoying life - have travelled a lot in our motorhome although we’ve now downsized to a campervan; we volunteer in 2 areas - as TOs for triathlon, and on a local nature reserve; we have a house and garden that we took on as a project to upgrade/renovate - house is more or less done, garden is a continuing work in progress; we get out and about with the dog.
our racing days are behind us but as TOs we keep in touch with the sport at all levels.
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yeh - the 90/180 rule is a right PITA but there are ways to manouver around it if you plan properly
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Good spot @Mungo2
When working full time there was a definite time related cap on training.
Whilst a low stress 3 day job does allow more recovery and thus potentially more effective training I did pick up some evidence of over training last season. In short I was fitter when I left work, than after the new training regime.
I now have a coach who I hope will regulate this, keep me working towards particular target races. I can also divert headspace from self coaching to enablers like better diet, more stretching etc as well as a more balanced life overall.
Of course the decline may be age related and the coach a waste of money……
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I nearly said a coach is the obvious answer on the end.
Most seem very good and if there a fast athlete or not doesn’t really make any difference at all to the person being coached.
The odd opinionated idiot, and I’ve seen some shocking comments on IMJ and a few of the more private groups I’m in, but most are very good it seems.
I stand by my comment
“ it’s who slows down the slowest “
Athletes who get faster after 50 either started late in life, raced 3 stone overweight or are taking EPO.
Possibly all three!
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