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    Posted: 17 Sep 14 at 11:48am
Following some chat on the RS100 forum, I've decided we need a new scoring system that reflects my advancing years. Hence...

For every decade younger than me someone is, they get one point added to their place score for every 10 boats in the fleet.
 
Obviously, this rule should not apply for anyone older than me.
 
So, simplifying, we get <"years younger than clive" times "boats entered" over 100> 

As an example, someone 15 years younger than me in a 15 boat fleet gets an extra 2.25 points
 
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Interesting Clive, but is age a handicap?  I am not too sure, sailing is a tactical game as much as a physical game isnt it?  The older chaps seem to have more experience and therefore should you not be handicapped for your 'years on the water'???  OR is sailign getting more and more physical?  i know i am quicker when i am able to hike harder and longer.
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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...  LOL
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Originally posted by Null

Interesting Clive, but is age a handicap?  .

Sch - don't tell them that!
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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...  LOL

No, I'm talking generically, but I was laying money you'd say something like that. You're getting sooo predictable
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You can only be unpredictable once.

Maybe I'll buy another one in a couple of years and enter the nationals.  That would be unpredictable.

Besides I've always fancied calling myself a 'top-ten' sailor just once in my lifetime.  No one needs to know there were only 7 of us competing.  
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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.

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I like to be ahead of my time - my 40s have been the decade for falling apart. I'm hoping to get it all over with in time for my 50s.
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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  Wink

*this could well be influenced by having a bit more dosh to lavish on B&B's meaning a lot less kipping in the car / tents too!


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Post Options Post Options   Quote Null Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Sep 14 at 2:06pm
I think I'm going to be in trouble by the time I hit 50!  just about half way through my 30's.  I have a dodgy hip starting to cause me grief and back issues.  Not to mention tendinitis.  My Dad is mid 60's and has had two knee replacements and a hip replacement.  

I have never, ever had a problem with injury bar an achilles problem as a teenager.  Since i turned 30 things take so long to recover.  I am fitter now then i have been for about 14 years as well.

I would however say that whilst my fitness contributes to my results, its the tactical side of my sailing thats improved.  Therefore I am faster than I was 10 years ago, mainly because i have learnt how to sail a boat quicker.  Not because I can ride, jog or swim further.
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