[Closed] sometimes I hate being over 40!

Do they kick in after 40? I'm 38 but nothing out of the ordinary happening yet...

I even hate being over 30

Yeah, I've noticed the sleep thing too. Glad it's not just me.

Other than that, post 40 is fab!

Yeah, the sleep thing here too - and seeing as my job is fairly physical i'm shattered by the time the weekend comes around 🙁

I've just hit 40 - I only sleep between 5-6 hours a night normally due to the time I go to bed, so suits me

Yes sleep thing here too, plus my joints ache slightly more each passing year....

Having alcohol the night before wastes at least a complete day after 😕

EDIT: I'm 42

Life hasn't been the same since passing the 21yr milestone. 😕

So it's not just me with the sleep (or lack of) thing then.

Noticed I don't need as much sleep, which I think is normal as you get older. Trust your body and not your mind. If you start thinking you need more sleep then you start feeling crap. Tell yourself your body is obviously rested enough and make the most of waking up early by getting out on your bike. Works for me.

same here with the sleep , 5 hours a night if im lucky.Seemed to get worse when i went from a physical job to an office job.thought it was just me !

Not a big sleeper here also. 5hrs...6 max for me, at a grand 43yrs & I'm up early (5am) running every other day. Feeling fitter these days than I have for 10yrs, thanks to losing weight. 🙂

I never had a good night's sleep since having kids (the oldest is now 30 -eek!), but the last few months I do seem to be sleeping through the night - the only problem is I ache more in the morning!

42. Haven't had a good night's sleep in years.

35 and sleep like a log for 8hrs till the kids start screaming in the morning, alcohol or not.

47 here and struggle to get more than 2 good nights sleep in a row.
I don't seem to have slowed down any on the bike but it's easier to provoke various aches and pains. At the moment I'm blaming a completely manic summer at work for feeling knackered. Hopefully that'll change after a quiet month or two.

After 40 for me, hair started going grey, sleep problems, worst thing though: BRUISES!
Never used to bruise at all, now big black bruises, take ages to go! Other injuries take ages to heal too.

I've just turned 40 and it's the sleep thing here too. I had put it down to stress but maybe it's just age!

DezB - After 40 for me, hair started going grey

Lucky you I started going grey at 16! still got a nice full thick head of hair though,

Alcohol = diuretic = get up for a pee.
Young children = needy = get up to tuck them back in.
Cat = hungry = get up to throw it outside.

Sleep is apparently for others.

Downshep, Age 44 and 1/3.

Yep, mother's genetic payback kicked in at 40 and I inherited sleepless nights, no matter how much excercise I do or if I take a nytol or sominex. A re-org at work is not helping either.

I also notice that crash recovery takes a lot longer these days.

My physio told me that the human body is not designed to go beyond 38 years. Things certainly don't heal as well once you hit 40.
As someone who went bald early I'm glad that at 46 my haircut is now not too out of place.

47 here, sleep is not so much a problem or at least not a chronic one. Just started to get that feeling though that it might be wise to go for a pee a hour or two before I get up.

Went on holiday with a friend about 10-12 years and he was up and down all night going for a pee, and his wife was not much better, so I may be doing well on this count.

No ED here yet, I wonder when I have that little gem to contend with 😆

I've noticed i don't sleep well when i drink, even the three beers i had last night made me restless 🙁

Also, due to yrs of manual work i've developed RSI-type damage to my elbows and wrists, i get reccurrences of sciatica, my knees are ****ed due to my CMT conditions and my gran keeps making comments about how grey my hair is - you can talk!!!! 😯

45 here.
fitter than I was 10 yrs ago and better on the bike......but, can't handle booze, everything hurts, arthritis in knees, feet , hands.

sleep ok, unless I've had a drink, usually about 8 hrs, with a pee stop 😆

Holy crap! If any of you lot were horses, they'd be calling the vet for the most humane solution. 😛

I can hear the rattle of the glue factory cart outside my door.... 😆

Just one of those things, but the really strange thing is that most of the time i ache and bits hurt etc, when i get on the bike it just seems to disappear - comes back with a vengeance when i get off though!

I haven't had a good nights sleep since I was 23. I'm 44 now.

But as for passing 40, I think the only thing I've really noticed is that if I go for a proper hard ride, it takes me a little longer to recover nowadays. Apart from that, it's much of the same.

It's not the glue factory, it's the Cloaked skeletal figure standing behind me in my mirror reflection that scares the willies out of me; keeps tapping the hour glass he's holding and there's more sand in the bottom than the top!

40 was a walk in the park

Try 50...

But I sleep as long as I want 6 out of 7 nights, life is good, and I am heavy but fit. The impending need for reading glasses is a pain, and one of my cars is insured by Saga... but life is pretty good... Hangovers suck more though.

The Grim Reaper is getting closer and closer, and whilst I am sure I will be skiing at 80, I can see MTBing may only have another 5-10 years.

Must admit, thats a thought that worries me - how long i've got left doing this hobby!

Bollocks, less than a week to go til the big four-oh... I'm heading off to bed now, best get the sleep hours in!

stoats brother excuse me but thats crap bub,

one of my riding buddies is 63 this year, he's not quite as fast as he was a few years back but still makes me work and i'm 20 yrs his junior and fit, i've been riding 80 miles every week for over 7 yrs, he rides about the same just a little slower on sunday, probably due to the bottle of wine he has saturday nights.

i know i will be riding in 20yrs time thanks to him, don't sell yourself short mate, oh and he had a heart attack 4yrs ago. (genetic problem not weight related).

sleep wise, kids eh..bummer, wouldn't be without them, reminds me of my childhood always first out in the morning on the paper round, now tho' i go off to work on my bike at 520am, i could take the car and go at 745am but the kids usually wake around 6-630am so might as well just go enjoy the morn.

Same experiences as eveyone else really. Two plus points though.

1. An ever larger percentage of the female population is now looking attractive.
2. A new mattress (how much are good mattresses!!!!) whilst not necessarily imporving the amount of sleep seems to have stopped me waking up feeling like I've just fallen down the stairs.

Oh yes, the 'more attractive women' thing. Whilst the extreme younger end of the spectrum (be careful!) are looking less attractive, the number of attractive ladies in their 30's 40's and beyond has exploded it seems 🙂

Wait 'til you get the other of 50 . . . .

44, sleep a sound 7 hours every night. I'm pretty binary mind, instantly awake and instantly asleep. None of this slowly dropping off nonsense. I also used to wake for the kids, settle them and return to bed before their mother stirred. The first five years were the worst. Now, I'm the one waking the teenager 😈

Weirdly. I'm fitter but since 40 i've fell from bike rupturing artery (!!) had 6 hours in theatre having it prepared, prolapsed a neck disc and had 3 months on floor sleeping, ruptured ulna collateral ligament skiing had a repair but it failed, diagnosed with high BP and cholesterol WTF im fitter Why??? and i think finally at least to date fracture my radial head in my elbow convalesd with minimum bike time upto D2D raced,19th in pairs and 5 laps for me was worth it, now it hurts as it did 6 weeks ago.... :'-)

I'm just turned 44.

and why did i stop sleeping though!!?? i thought it was just me... Research project anyone??

Also hate being over 30 🙁

44 here. No sleep problems, solid 7-8 hours most nights, 9.5 hours last night, even waking up needing a pee only happens about twice a year.

General fitness has dropped off but I put that as much down to working from home and no longer getting the miles in commuting as I do to ageing.

40 in 2 weeks but haven't slept properly in years. Having twin 10 month old girls is taking it's toll too. Up twice last night and then properly awake at 5.30 this morning. Just got back from a 2 1/2 hour roadie ride though and feel pretty good, off to the Osteo in a minute to get all the aches and strains of living like a 20 year old sorted out. I honestly think that my body will give up long before i'm ready for it too.

Was just talking to my buddy who trains me, and discussing next years goals, moving up to Division 1, getting my 25TT time down into the 56 minutes range and doing the Haute Route. I think I'm doing alright compared to some of the other 40 year olds I see.

Not really troubled too much with the sleeping, but when I come to fill in the 'age' box in questionnaires,I now seem to be lumped in with those up to 50........................

49 here, just this week. Went out for a beer, drank 3 and a half pints and spent all night getting up to pee. Will stick to wine in the future.
Currently planning some big events for the big one next year, still fancy doing a half or full ironman before 60.

I've just gone the wrong side of 55. Train hard - sleep well. Simples.
(a bit of booze and shagging helps 😉 )

The bloke complaining about bruises not healing is prob. diabetic BTW. I notice the sleep thing as well (41) but I have always had a hard time switching off.

Issac Newton managed well on 18 hr days and a regular cycle of 6 hr/night, but his job was not too stressful. Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill rapidly became senile in their later years, suffering from interrupted sleep less than 6 hrs per night, often 4 hrs or less for a long period while running the country.

The theory now is that because the brain is basically a chemical engine, the deep REM sleep that lasts about 4 hours (and takes about 2 hrs to get into) is a actually the brain undergoing a deep cleaning process for left over chemical waste byproducts from thinking during the day.

Also, what is not thoery is that being sleep deprived has serious long term effects on health in many studies - people die much younger.

48 .. the worst thing is the need for reading glasses.. grabs you by surprise at 45 ish and disappers over a cliff soon after.. had the heart attacks OHS strokes so i m looking forward to a peaceful retirement and a sudden passing painlessy whilst sleeping aged 101

[b]gunner[/b] that's largely a crock...

1) Diabetes sometimes presents with repeated infections - not usually bruising. Think Leukaemia, Thrombocytopenia etc etc by all means... but capillary fragility and "senile Purpura" does also occur with age.... Usually not pre 60 though.

2) REM sleep does not last 4 hours a night... 2 hrs a night max.

3) People who are sleep deprived in experiments for several days, rapidly get back to normality with relatively few hours additional sleep. The "sleep is necessary to process chemicals" theory is totally unproven. There are other good "memory processing" or "evolutionary advantage" models.

4) Sleep deprivation [i]has[/i] been shown to be harmful. How much of that is about disruption of circadian rhythms as in shift work or how much is because poor health (COPD, OSA, Depression etc) often leads to sleep deprivation, I'd be interested to know. Do you have any evidence?

50. No kids, no sleep problems.

46. no kids, no sleep problems...

but the gout (thanks mum), the stiff knees (which may be related to) the flat feet, the diabetes (thanks dad) & the grey hair (thanks dad, again) are now starting to bug me.

and my single vision glasses are starting to seem distinctly underpowered for close-up work 🙁

42 y o here .
Neeed a routine to get a good nights sleep ( 8 hours ) and suffer if only get 7 ish a night . Hate getting up for a pee 3 hours after going to bed . Realising that what i am now is about as good as its ever going to get .
I wont have kids , i wont ever win anything , or get any fitter / faster.
Everything hurts after a couple of hours on the bike . Old injuries hurt more in the cold weather .
Drinking need strategic planning if the next day is not going to be a mongfest. Cuts / bruises take forever to heal .
Notice the cold wind alot more. wont go out and end up on someones floor anymore .

wont go out and end up on someones floor anymore .

amen to that.
if I go out, I go locally, or I drive & don't drink.

If I go into Leeds, for example, I really do not like watching the clock for the last train home, and I'm too tight to pay for a taxi or hotel room