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Did 3 of them already in the past two years, and was considering signing up for Pickleball.
What about the stereotype of buying a flashy car? Arguably that’s the one I fell I not: spending far more on a car than I ever have to get something flashy and different, and purely thinking of me for what felt like the first time in my life.
I bought a roadster … which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they’re thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don’t even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.
I came really close to doing that as a younger adult. At one point it was almost a club, so many co-workers had an older mg. Unfortunately they are no longer as plentiful or cheap.
Now I’m tempted from time to time but would never spend the time to care for it myself, which is one of the reasons to get an older vehicle.
At the moment I have the practical needs that both my kids are driving but sharing one car and can’t yet afford their own. This is the first summer that coordination will be a challenge. I took a Quick Look into long term rentals and short term leases and they’re just too expensive. I don’t want to buy them a car that will just sit and rot for 10 months they’re in college. I am so tempted to get myself another fun car. Maybe a project or classic. For the summer I’d have one more vehicle to share for the family. If there was an issue with my main car, I’d have an option. And if it’s a fun car for me I don’t mind having it the ten months of the year they’re in school
Grad school but I can’t afford it. Or running but my knees hurt so I got way too into bicycles
If your pedals have power meters, you’ve gone too far.
Jokes on you, my power meter is in the crank arm.
Me who just went back for their PhD
none, just neutrally observing my fastly declining physical recovery rates and wondering if it will be in the negatives 20 years later
Pretty much. I’ve got frozen shoulders going on, a sore neck for about a year, and I have to head straight to the bathroom when I get out of bed.
Lol wait til you’re peeing five times a night.
Synthesizer and gym habit. The former for fun, and the latter out of necessity.
Fuck, right as I got back into manga and anime…
But it’s mostly rock climbing really.
None, more modelmaking, hiking and reading.
The workshop life has found me. Currently obsessed with 3d printing
I did this as a hobby anyway, but I just can’t find the time.
None of the above?
Strength training and returned to a hobby of my younger years - cars.
I feel like I’m doing the midlife crisis thing wrong. I’m factionless atm. I’m also too tired to have a crisis. My time is spent going to work and trying to survive in a field that is increasingly difficult to survive in.
I’m jealous some people have time and energy to have a full on crisis on the side. You lucky, lucky bastards.
Are you a software engineer
I’m a software engineer and I’m doing pretty well with my ongoing quarter life crisis
Fuck. Running.
What’s with the popularity of pickleball these day? What happened to badminton?
It’s exploded into a fad for some reason. I think the idea was just a version of tennis for people who have more issues with their joints and whatnot, but even younger people are getting into it. Where I used to live there is a pretty sizeable indoor pickleball place, which is kind of wild to me.
People won’t stop laughing when you refer to the shuttle-cock.
So now we say “Slap that pickle, Chet!” And no one giggles.
Homeassistant, Nintendo Switch with the kids, getting back into playing bass, and Walking
Cycling, linux and archery
The triathlon.
Running
Oh god, I feel called out. Except that mine has been a long and painful trajectory with various episodes since high school.
What do you do if running hurts your knees? Just do it anyway?
I have tried changing footwear but generally if I walk a lot my knee will hurt. Doctor said thats just how I’m built I guess.
I would like to get into it. I guess I could just do NSAIDs?
Running is in most cases good for knee health in the long term. It could be that you just need to take it slower to build up the knee strength.
Important: If you feel pain, stop and wait for it to recover.
Don’t use drugs to solve a problem like this. You’ll just build a tolerance and solve nothing.
Look into strength training as others suggested. Start with bodyweight exercises before moving on to weights. It’ll take a while though as you’ll need to experiment to find what works, and ofc exercise isn’t an overnight thing.
Maybe also consult a physical therapist.
And if all of that is too much, running isn’t the only effective cardio exercise. Cycling, swimming and less obvious/weird ones like slideboard mountain climbers, which should all be easier on the knees
It depends. Do they hurt because the cartilage is gone? Then I’m pretty sure you are boned and have to pick one of the other three midlife crisis. Otherwise try physiotherapy. Lots of things cause knee pain: imbalance of muscle strength, muscle tightness, poor running style, bad shoes. Don’t power through on pain killers - you don’t want to also be in pain when you aren’t running. Oh, and bad shoes is the last thing to look at out of those four. People can generally run in anything. A shoe that compensates for one of the other three problems is not a good shoe.
youtube.com/@thekneesovertoesguy
Check out this guy. Now full transparency I’ve never checked his stuff out, but people who know far more than I do say he is legit and I know a few people who have used his videos to work through injuries and improve their range of motion and it worked.
Theres also some “Performance enhancing compounds” that can supposedly improve longevity and recovery that can help with joint issues but thats a whole rabbit hole and the research just isnt definitive, I’ve dabbled and I feel like they worked and know stuff but I’m not trying to advertise for that sort of thing.
Maybe do strength training and stretching exercise first that target the leg muscles. A lot of knee pain comes from imbalanced leg muscles. Like when one side of the leg is too stiff or too weak.
I get pain in my shins when I run outside. I exclusive run on the treadmill now and that works for me.
You’ve got a muscle there.
The pain could be from a lot of things:
Shoes too tight, the way you roll your foot as you run, schin splints (very doubtful), even not being hydrated could be a cause for your issue.
The right running shoes are also very important.
have you thought about trying cycling?
I do love cycling and sometimes use the bike in the gym. Running would be cheap and convenient tho
I used to always run for fun. I was a go run a “real quick” 10k to hatch a pokemon egg kind of guy. I can’t run anymore because of my knees, my doc said I need surgery, but I’m waiting until I feel that I need it.
Btw if I were you and my doctor said something dumb like that, I’d find another doctor.
My advice is to use an elliptical to test the waters. They are when used correctly low impact on the knees.
Thanks yeah that seems like a reasonable choice
Have you tried insoles? Mine started to hurt and it was from my knees turning in because of bad arch support in my shoes
I have, although I suppose it’s been a while since I tried running with the new shoes and insoles
I got the bonus 5th one: Linux
Been using that since my teens
Does HRT count
This post is definitely missing gay and trans signs.
Smoking meats
Here in my backyard, smoking these meats.
True, true, this is me too. I’ve got to admit to having to hold myself back from a full on outdoor kitchen. But I have a nice grill and a huge smoker, and I’ll be here every weekend wondering how to find people who want to share 15# of pulled pork or something.
I’ve actually gone overboard with cooking in general. Replaced teflon with cast iron and stainless steel, and a griddle top , and learned how to cook so many different foods from so many cuisines.
Running and smoking meats and everything that is food, my kettle is having a hard time
these are all horrible. where is cosplay at 48?
My closest one would be running. I started doing 5 minutes a day on an old exercise bike where the computer and thus the resistance motor didn’t work in september, gradually adding more time as I got into better shape.
It was when I got a new one that actually works in mid January that I REALLY got going, though, and I’ve put in 90 hours for a total of 3813 km (2369 miles) since then.
For context, that’s more than the straight line distance between Washington DC and Los Angeles or almost the distance between London, England and Gao, Mali.
As far as mid life crises go, that along with eating a lot better ain’t so bad 😁
Less like a crisis, more like a solution
True 😁
I fell into running…hard. I went from almost no physical exercise to running marathons over the space of 2 years. Did my first 100km ultra in December.
I’m on track to do the same right now. Was virtually sedentary until January of this year and now I’m doing 25 miles a week and get grumpy when I can’t run.
I see I’ve found another Type 2 connoisseur.
Hufflepuff.
Wait a minute…
No, I stand by it. Just replace the badger with a blunt.
Add gardening, birdwatching, golf, volunteering?
You must be thinking of a retirement-crisis
oh weird, same. Though switch golf with mushroom foraging
I have done all of these. None of them were a midlife crisis - that was straight fucking.
Japan…
i just really freaking love public transportation infrastructure
i want to ride ALL THE TRAINS
What do I do if mine’s not on here? What kind of mid-life-crisis is this?
PlutoVolcano@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I have ADHD. All of the above.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Walking isn’t even a hobby, it’s my default speed.
embed_me@programming.dev 9 months ago
Probably quite decent in all of them too