New scoring system

Following some chat on the RS100 forum, I've decided we need a new scoring system that reflects my advancing years. Hence...

Originally posted by fab100 For every decade younger than me someone is, they get one point added to their place score for every 10 boats in the fleet.

Originally posted by kneewrecker Originally posted by fab100 For every decade younger than me someone is, they get one point added to their place score for every 10 boats in the fleet. you are talking about RS100s right?  So what happens when you don't get 10 boats anymore...

Originally posted by Null Interesting Clive, but is age a handicap? .

I wouldn't say age is the handicap, but the silly injuries that come with it are. I've got this stupid dodgy shoulder at the moment, I got it playing bloody cricket weeks ago, I can't raise my arm above the horizontal, makes right handed wiggle sticking quite painful, but not enough to stop me doing it. What would be painful, yea near impossible, would be if I fell in and had to try and reach up to get the bloody centreboard within heaving distance. So this Sunday in what was going to inevitably be a lively race (and was, pretty much everyone even the good guys went in) I turned tail at the gun and headed in, not wishing to become another liability for the rescue boat.

When you are in your thirties and forties you can bounce back from silly muscular/tendon injuries, even in your fifties, providing you are fit, hell you can even head butt a promenade wall at high speed and be back on the water within weeks, but post 60? no, post 65 to be more accurate, they have a habit of being very very debilitating however high your pain threshold is or has been and take ages to repair if ever totally.

So, yes, Age eventually takes its toll even if you believe you're a super hero..

Sadly you're not, you're damnably mortal, your sick with decrepitude and it's headed your way.

Getting old and still doing sh*t, aint for pussies.

Edited by iGRF - 17 Sep 14 at 1:19pm

In my experience, the older I get the less I drink, mainly due to feeling more knackered earlier than before, which means I get more sleep than my younger competitors*, which means I am a bit fresher in the first race of a day and clapping out in the second... perhaps energy gels are the answer past a certain decade or 3, or 4.....you may say experience teaches you more than youthful exurberance can provide in terms of physical effort, but I may actually be fitter now than I was in my teens / twenties, when a love for pasties, 6X and staying up to all hours probably meant I wasn't exactly at 'peak performance' most of the time 

Edited by getafix - 17 Sep 14 at 2:05pm