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CHICAGO (AP) -- Dara Torres jokes that she had trouble reading the scoreboard after winning the first of two events at the Olympic swimming trials.

Her eyes just might be the only part of her body showing some age.
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Torres qualified for the Olympics by beating swimmers nearly half her age in the 100-meter freestyle Friday, then set an American record Sunday in the 50-meter freestyle trials.

that's pretty damn cool.


http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... 7-19-59-29

A little more hope for the old people, though having a 100K or so a year for training probably doesn't hurt.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/16/at ... index.html

Lot of it is kinda what has been said - as you get older, you can't go as hard, as often, but you have better technique, years of cumulative training, and you know what works for you.

I start the one year count down to 40 next month - so, I am psyched that 40 is the new 30, since that means I have ten more years before I get old!

40 is the new 30 does not come without a hell of a lot of commitment. If you take the average in the USA it looks like 20 is the new 40.

Wes wrote:I start the one year count down to 40 next month - so, I am psyched that 40 is the new 30, since that means I have ten more years before I get old!

Everyone can improve it just takes more commitment and a lot more of climbing smart (warming up and listening to your body) when you get older.

Sweet that means I turn 30 again in November. I understand the "listen to your body" in principal but often my body says "stop that hurts, now go drink beer and eat ice cream", if I listen to that I would be going on 50 instead of 40.

I think its all about momentum, once you stop or are stopped by injury its really hard to get back to where you were. If I could do it all over again, I would train less in a gym, climb a variety of different rock and styles more and take long breaks away from climbing each summer to do other fun stuff.

I stopped totally with on running, working out, lifting weights, etc for four years... from age 45 to age 49...I got back to climbing and I am back to where I was even with a recent ankle injury...

I guess I am just speaking for myself then, didn't mean to over generalize. Although, I can't help but mention athletic genetic disposition, that helps...a lot!

rhunt wrote:If I could do it all over again, I would train less in a gym, climb a variety of different rock and styles more and take long breaks away from climbing each summer to do other fun stuff.

OMG Rob, you have to be kidding!!! You can do it all over again. You are young. The only problem is that enthusiasm is not an entirely renewable resource. I tell you this: enthusiasm is the only sand that is currently slipping through your fingers and I tell you this: no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. Ok . . . that last bit I plagiarized from Jim Morison. Dude, you are young; come out and play.

BTW Rob, I am nearly convinced that tutgirl is not human, but she still inspires me.

tutgirl is most certainly inspirational - she has had to battle back from epic injury and now is still climbing hard.

I think you are onto something there caribe - it has a lot to do with enthusiasm. And for me its hard to get pysched to come down to the red and do the same old redpoint climbing (and as you can tell from many of my post, I have a very low tolerance for over crowded dog filled crags too) - hard to get psyched to go to the same gym I have been climbing at since 1994, etc. Its cool though, adventure racing and mt biking have all my attention right now. Yet I do have a trip to Seneca planned that I am looking forward to - I haven't climbed there in at least 5 years. Plus its hard to find climbing partners who are not all about only going to the red and working on their proj..