Retirement?

[scott43]

So how do you step gracefully away from competitive sports? Thoughts?

 

[SBrown]

So how do you step gracefully away from competitive sports? Thoughts?

I threw a little fit and then apologized to my teammates. So don't ask me.

 

[Willyum215]

Just communicate honestly I suppose... ?

 

[RachelV]

My 40-yo partner deals with his need to be competitive without risking his body playing soccer/basketball with a bunch of 20-somethings by taking beer league kickball very, very seriously. YMMV.

 

[cantunamunch]

So how do you step gracefully away from competitive sports? Thoughts?

Gear consultant?

Or you can just pull a Wiggins and choose to retrain into a sport no one expects you to become good at...

 

[Fishbowl]

When I turned fifty I was put in the “Senior” division in martial arts and I knew it was time to gracefully move on.

 

[Bad Bob]

hobbled away on crutches. There was nothing graceful about it.

 

[scott43]

Gear consultant?

Or you can just pull a Wiggins and choose to retrain into a sport no one expects you to become good at...

Skiing...

 

[scott43]

I find I'm trying a little too hard to compete with the 20 and 30 year old guys and I crushed a guy last night by accident..second time in two years. Feel terrible about it. Maybe time to hang'em up and focus on the cycling or something involving less contact I suppose..

 

[oldschoolskier]

There isn’t.......just strike fear in to the young hotshot and whoop his @$$.

 

[crgildart]

I find I'm trying a little too hard to compete with the 20 and 30 year old guys and I crushed a guy last night by accident..second time in two years. Feel terrible about it. Maybe time to hang'em up and focus on the cycling or something involving less contact I suppose..

Sounds like they're the ones that need to hang'em up.. Unless he was on your team??

 

[scott43]

Sounds like they're the ones that need to hang'em up.. Unless he was on your team??

My team..we both were going and neither of us had great situational awareness..saw him last second and moved as best I could but still clocked him. Just start to question, am I going too hard to try and compete? Fortunately I don't wear shoulder pads so that made things better for him..not so much for me..but he still got the worst of it.

 

[crgildart]

My team..we both were going and neither of us had great situational awareness..saw him last second and moved as best I could but still clocked him. Just start to question, am I going too hard to try and compete? Fortunately I don't wear shoulder pads so that made things better for him..not so much for me..but he still got the worst of it.

Ah, so you were a step behind and missed the mark. If you're clearly not keeping up and coming in late it's probably time to either find people more your speed to play with... Or....Get some goalie pads and play in the net?

 

[scott43]

Ah, so you were a step behind and missed the mark. If you're clearly not keeping up and coming in late it's probably time to either find people more your speed to play with... Or....Get some goalie pads and play in the net?

I'd rather chew off my arm than play net.. Yeah, maybe time to find something else to be competitive in.

 

[Varmintmist]

Hes young, he should have gotten out of the way. You were just passing along that experience and understanding through a short intimate lesson.

Like playing sandlot football and you over hear the other team the next day say "I dont know how we got beat up by a bunch of old guys."

 

[Fishbowl]

When this thread started I just presumed the OP was talking about retiting from ski racing. It’s taken several posts and references to crushing people, shoulder pads and goalies to work out it’s probably ice hockey. The thread was more fun when I thought you were crushing people on the slopes

 

[scott43]

The thread was more fun when I thought you were crushing people on the slopes

Blues or Blacks??

 

[WheatKing]

Perhaps Ski Cross is in your future.. Blue had a pretty wild course setup last year.. looks fun on tv.. but up close those jumps (and corresponding gaps) are HUGE..

 

[Philpug]

Athletes who hung around too long...

• Brett Farve
• Steve Carlton
• Joe Namath

Walked off into sunset...

• John Elway
• Payton Manning
• Derrick Jeter

 

[cantunamunch]

I find I'm trying a little too hard to compete with the 20 and 30 year old guys and I crushed a guy last night by accident..second time in two years. Feel terrible about it. Maybe time to hang'em up and focus on the cycling or something involving less contact I suppose..

Come do inline - you've easily got enough time to train up for NY and A2A and Montreal - and the gear bags don't smell as bad