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Re: Why I gave up paddling....
Posted By: Andy Waddington In Response To: Re: Why I gave up paddling.... (Davis)
Date: Monday, 19 September 2005, at 10:27 a.m.
: His heart rate is 50 BPM....
Sounds good. My heart was down to 42 bpm at rest when I was at my
very fittest on a long walk in the Sierra Nevada in 1981. Anything
below 55 must be good.: just the mindset of acting like you are 25 when you
: are an old man.....Will you get it through your head that 50 is not old, and going
on mulitday paddling trips is NOT acting like 25. At 25 a lot of
folk don't have the sense and experience to do multiday kayak trips.
40-55 is recognised as the best age for fell runners (people who
run up and down very steep hills competitively). I have a friend
who was caving very actively in the nineteen fifties, and burnt off
a number of fit student types in Easegill Caverns when he was 68
(this was more than a decade ago). That year he was muttering about
giving up fell running because of his pressing social life, but next
thing I knew, he was off on a six month fell walking tour of Canada,
most of which, by all accounts, he ran.Now Bert may not be typical, and most of us wouldn't want to be quite
that active into their seventies, but I'm sure your mate is just the
other end of the curve - the tail of the distribution of people who for
one reason or another don't make it into active retirement. That doesn't
mean that you should infer that everyone ought to give up their sport
after they are just out of nappies. Everyone knows enough people that
a few of them will be more than three standard deviations away from the
mean - on both sides. Take a bigger sample, if it is big enough to be
statistically significant you will see that 50 is young to be in that
state unless you have serious genetic pre-disposition or have abused
your body in some way deserving of an early death...If you live in a society that has a life expectancy at birth of 80 years,
it is everyone else dying young that maintains your hope of living much
beyond that average age. But if you believe you are at the end of your
life, then you probably are, and will contribute to the rest of us with
more guts maintaining our longevity.Get out paddling, and if your friend is unfortunate enough not to live
much longer, make sure you have a bloody good wake before going out for
a bloody good paddle !!Andy
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