Fortunately I was talking cumulatively, and not an increasing rate of accrual.
I will never dunk a basketball from the floor on a 10’ rim again.
I will never complete a 5.13 rock climbing route again.
I will never set for an Open-level volleyball team again.
I will never bench 315 again. (or, rather, highly doubtful)
(Though I am keeping the 500# deadlift goal alive for a few years.
I probably wont ski a double diamond again.
Should I be personally disappointed that I can say all the same things, but without the word “again”?
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when you realize you don’t have to impress anyone to be happy, you start to see the light
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I will never run a 5 min mile again. a handful of years ago that was a goal. spent the winter on the treadmill and was very happy with some of the workouts. last one included .75 miles at 12mph and I had more to give. Week later transitioned to outdoors. a week after that started coaching sports again and all free time and workout time evaporated.
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Change 12mph to 12 min/mi and “more to give” to “nothing left” and basically same.
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it’s like looking in a mirror
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I can only think of two real disappointments. I think that in some cases I might be disappointed for a bit but as life works its way around, things turn out like they should and those disappointments just become the path I took. However, I was very disappointed when my title was changed after I stopped taking the actuarial exams. It didn’t help that some of the actuaries started treating me differently. I was also disappointed when I “failed” the personality test for the FBI. At the time I really wanted to be a field agent. Both things probably worked out for the better as I think I’ve built a pretty nice life at this point and I am unlikely to get shot during the course of my work.
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Nothing. Everything.
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I never did dunk on a 10’ rim. I could touch the rim, could occasionally get a finger on the top of the rim, once upon a time I got the middle of my hand on the rim, but even with a 39" vertical jump there’s something about being 5’10" limits the actual chances of a dunk.
And I have the same thoughts about running a 5-minute mile, that yeah, if I can get through hip surgeries and rehabbed and built back up, I can do it but realistically I know it’s not happening. No idea what I should be shooting for - I think at first, it’s just “run a 5K without stopping once” - but I’ve got probably a year before I can worry about that.
Neither one is really a disappointment, more of a “that would have been great, but I’ll be fine without it” kind of thing.
Um…
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It’s difficult to dunk from that height.
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I think you got the wrong unit symbol . . .
I’m disappointed, personally.
No joke. Look, when I was in athletics in HS I did freakish stuff on occasion. We ran a X-C practice race my sophomore year against 2 other schools, I struggled to 22 minutes for 3 miles. We went to the first official meet 3 days later, I covered 3 miles in 16:41 in the JV race even after having to backtrack ~75 yards off a wrong turn. I got thrown in on the LJ relay to fill a spot at a meet as a junior and went 20’7", no wind. [And then never went over 18’4" the rest of the year, even in practice.] We’d do 16x400s on the track as “60 or less, or you’re out” and I’d often run the final one at 53-54. [Lifetime best in the open 400 was 54.6]
And yes, one day we did vertical jump testing and I tagged 39".
That’s more like it.
I’m personally disappointed that we no longer have a superhero in our midst.
…wait, you mean actuaries aren’t superheroes?