No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.
You slow down when you get older.
Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.