We're all getting up there I guess ha. I used to be a decent enough casual runner, I would try to clock a sub 5 mile as my sort of annual check in. But now I am always training around some sort of injury and I've had to add 30 seconds on to that baseline and be happy with it. Sore achilles for the past 6-7 years (gets better then I overdo it), elbow tendinitis for the better part of four years (trips to PT, gets better, then I overdo it), IT band pain (when my achilles isn't hurting). Sprained ankle every once in awhile too. I wish I could climb but I'm at a strength/conditioning gym 3-5 days a week and just can't add anything on top of that - but I know enough to know that I need that to keep some baseline functioning. Total recovery has seemed to be sort of a pie in the sky notion since I turned 35 (which is some years ago now), lol. But when something is hurting at least there is always something else to do that avoids it! I was just telling my wife though that I need to recalibrate my routines for my current age. Less high intensity and more yoga and walking I think is in the cards. It's just hard for me to "slow down" so to speak, moreso recently than in some years, which is all the more reason that I need to. 

Wait till you hit your 50s JW, recovery takes an age.. i've only just recovered from an achilles injury from June 2024 I'd had time away from tennis while i'd been working on the bathroom project.. then i played one of the neighbours on the local clay courts.. i'd never played on clay before and wans't used to the loose powdery surface.. maybe Chucks wern't the best choice of footwear either? At the end of the match i limped home, elevated / iced but by the time i went to bed, i had to go upstairs, backwards on my arse... i couldn't play tennis for 6weeks although cycling was fine. @MJF9 is sick of hearing about it First match thereafter, post-physio.. i strapped my ankle up tight af but tore the calf in my left leg (typical tennis-leg injury) i heard an audible POP! ..  I was trying to put less pressure on my injured achilles.. to add insult to injury, i had an allergic reaction to the lycra in the strapping so my lower leg was covered in what looked like burn blisters.. for 6mths after just carrying bags of shopping from the car would hurt my heel.. i couldn't even put my feet up on the footstool. 14mths later i'm now pain free again.. 10am this morning, waiting for the offspring. Do you think Taylor Fritz has to bring a brush to sweep the court..

Bought a Bay Meadows Sweater in dark grey from a sale today. Very very nice. Not quite the quality of Buzz Rickson but similar and a class above Merz B. Schwanen. Perfect fit and very soft quality.  

@julian-wolf generally in the same boat as you.    after having a baby last year and starting a 9-5 after some time in academia I barely squeeze 2 sessions a week if I’m lucky. It’s mostly the one session on Saturday morning where everyone’s still asleep for me. I’ve sort off switched to climbing mostly on moonboard since I can’t really have projects in the “regular” gym sections, since they change fully within a month. And I can only do 4 sessions a month.    Been mostly trying to maintain the same level rather than improving.    but hi, at least I don’t have to buy new climbing shoes every 10 months now 😅