Get a real job 😉

Liking some of the suggestions up there such as like abroad for >12mn and bivvy nights (with or without jelly)

How about
Appearing somewhere in a film
Finding 5 stw’ers who live abroad and going riding for a weekend with each group (ok, finances may kill that one)

First time I saw the term LEJOG I thought it was some pseudo-French term, “Le Jog”, meaning something like “The trip”. Even after I knew it related to riding from Lands End to John O’Groats it took a while to realise it was an acronym

me too 😳

maccruiskeen – maybe I should have added a smiley…

leffeboy – Member

Get a real job

Good job I know what you do cheeky!! 😀

Lovin’ these, sounds like you’re all doing your own lists too in your heads now 😀

Thanks guys x

As it happens, when I was 40 I made a list of the things I had done so far (mainly to try and top it in the next 40 years…) Do any of these give you ideas??

Jumped out of a plane (twice)
Flown a plane (not the same one as above!)
Been whitewater kayaking (both above and underground)
Been caving
Climbed up to 6b grade (yes, I know that’s not very good)
Climbed up the Mer de Glace
Ridden all sorts of Mountain Biking World Cup courses (slowly!)
Ridden from the west to the east coast of England in a day
Taught fencing to six year olds
Taught IT to six year olds
Worked at a music concert
Heard Queen in Concert
Met The Queen
Met several other queens
Been out with a Doctor, a Nurse, a Midwife and a Nursery Nurse (not all at once!)
Swam with Dolphins
Skied down an active volcano
Bought a house
Appeared, as a competitor, on Sky Sports
Been to Le Mans 24 Heures
Driven down the Mulsanne straight
Been to the inaugural year of a music festival
Span my car through 360 degrees 😮
Owned an Alfa Romeo
Driven a Challenger 2 tank (badly)
Been to an arms fair
Been ice climbing
Torn ankle ligaments, dislocated a shoulder and prolapsed a disc

Rachel

Oooooooooh Thanks Rachel some ace ones there, I’ve only done four of them (dependant on what sort of queens you meant 😀 )

I’d actually be more scared about owning an Alfa Romeo lovely aren’t they but cost alot when they break down, well my ex’s did anyway 😆

fantastic list Rachel 🙂

Girl I went to school with said that she wanted to have a nervous breakdown and to go to prison before she was 40, so she had experienced life or some such rubbish. Must look her up…

Unsupported multiday trekking in the wilds –

Bollocks, great list Rachel but I’ve only got 6 months to do it in.

Except the last item, could do without torn ligaments!

TJ do I have to eat grubs or can I take a packed lunch 😀

Do a Bob Graham Round. My dad did one in 2008(?) and loved it, fellrunning helps but it’s only an average speed of 3MPH, walk up, run down. 42 times 😯

bagpuss – you’re right about the Alfa breaking down!! I had two; the second one last 3 days before breaking down and telling me there was water in the diesel tank. It was a petrol car.

Oh – and I meant drag queens…

Rachel

Take a packed lunch 🙂

Me and Mrs TJ do this every year – it really clears the mind. Heading off again in 3 weeks

I do love walking I’m much better at it than cycling!!

I’d like to do a proper trek for the charity I work for next year, Peru or Great Wall of China you need to raise a SHEDLOAD of money so needs thinking through properly if anyone fancies doing it to?

You really need to be able to run though, and stay on your feet for up to 24 hours. Record is 13 😯

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I’d love to do a big expedition – but nothing tooo obvious – maybe something like a long trek in Mongolia??

Rachel

Assault a politician and/or lunge wildly at a member of the royal family!

Rachel

I’ve been contacted by a company who we can organise it through my thinking was to try and get some local people interested too round here but you’re right something a bit different than the norm may spark more interest

Some people are excited by the idea of self-reliance that is needed on an unusual trip and some (the majority?) are turned off by it. You’ll need to know what type of people you can attract.

Either way, 2012 is likely to be a bit of a challenging year for me anyway – being stuck in the middle of nowhere could be a very bad thing. If you’re plan falls in 2013, let me know!!

Rachel

I want to:

Learn trapeze, sail across either the Pacific or Atlantic. travel down from Alaska to the bottom of South America (forgot what the end country is 😳 ) Live in Paris. Live in Los Angles. To begin with.

In no particular order…
Tandem skydive
Drive something fast around the Nurburgring
Marathon de Sables
Become an egg donor
Become fluent in a foreign language
Buy a nice road bike
Scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef
Road trip across America
Bag all 284 munroes in Scotland
Train to Tibet

Should keep you out of trouble for a while.

Sail the Atlantic.. yeah.. that reminds me of one of my schemes. One day, instead of flying to see Mrs Grips’ folks I’d like to sail. You’d have to go from Cardiff across the Altantic, go up the Eastern Seabord, then down the St Lawrence seaway into the Great Lakes.. then there’s a river/canal that goes into the lake by their town. You could then walk over to their house.. that would be so aweseome 🙂

bagpuss72 – Member

I do love walking I’m much better at it than cycling!!

I’d like to do a proper trek for the charity I work for next year, Peru or Great Wall of China you need to raise a SHEDLOAD of money so needs thinking through properly if anyone fancies doing it to?

Please forget this. People have real giving fatigue over these and why should we pay so you can have a holiday. Its all organised for you anyway and no adventure. want to do this do it yourself – and it can be done in Scotland.

Want to raise money for charity do something useful that does not cost thousands just to take part.

Want to do some trekking? Heres some pics of scottish treks I have done – I have also do it in Chile, Slovcenia, France and heading for italy this year

Yeah I dunno about those charity things either.

“I want the holiday of a lifetime so give some money to charity so I can go”

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I’m 40 this June and after watching lots of friends go through that barrier and it turn into an ugly mess, these are some of the things I’m NOT going to do – and I suggets you might like to avoid some of them:

Buy a sports car
Shag someone I shouldn’t
Run off with a friends wife
Start going to nightclubs again
Get into religion
Skinny jeans
Buy a bar
Make inappropriate gestures to women half my age to prove to myself I’m not really 40
Get my old record collection out f the loft and force my kids to listen to it

There’s probably more I could list that Ive witnessed.

I’m probably going to buy a new bike instead.

Start going to nightclubs again

oops

Skinny jeans

oops

Make inappropriate gestures to women half my age to prove to myself I’m not really 40

oops

Rachel

things ive done that i really reccomend

not as hard as you think but still shit your pants scary

climbing the inca trail in cloud to have the sun come out when you get to macchu pichu

everyone should go to TG at least once in their life, strict dress code for sure but the outfits, the stage shows, the decor, the atmos, without a doubt the best club in the world

ok so since the wall went up its never had the same magic but still the craziest 4 day party youll ever go to

Just do stuff because you want to, not ’cause you’re approaching 40. Looking back, lots of the memorable stuff I did between 40 and 50 wasn’t part of some mid-life crisis plan, more ‘stuff that just happened’ . . .

Midnight sun . . . just weird
Drove across USA . . . best holiday ever
Bought 70+ new bikes 😛 . . . and sold them all except one
Sold my kids 😳 . . . saw my kids become independent(ish)
Found a job I love doing
Found loads more me time 😛

Getting older rocks! 8)

Be 32
Be 33
Be 34
Be 35
Be 36
Be 37
Be 38
Be 39

*buys torture garden tickets*

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how about “get a grip of yer self” your only 40 life starts now like