This was really well put, thanks! I'd actually been worried about the older age groups for much the opposite reason, the couple I've seen have been hard competitive with a lot of Europeans who used to play at higher levels. And I'm a 5 - 15 years older than most of my team mates so I'd have to join pretty much solo. But I imagine there are a bunch of different leagues of all abilities/aggression/competitiveness.
This is heartbreakingly reasonable advice. (I play centre D so almost all the gameplay changes you suggest are my bread and butter. Probably time to learn a new position if I want to stay intact.)
Great advice on the workouts, probably safer to only play if I've been working out that week AND it's great motivation to actually go to the gym.
This is true. I used to lift but it was a pretty bro-ey group/instructor and I hurt myself enough times that I switched to swimming (which I admittedly don't do enough of.) I should probably look into another trainer and get back to moving heavy things up and down.
Oof, sounds rough. I went trampoling with some folks just before I turned 30 and even that nearly crippled a few of us.
I'm also lucky enough to live in a great, albeit very wet, cycling city. One of the highlights of summer for me is biking around with the sun on your face.
Always heartening to hear anout a team with other greybeards! And honestly, with one minor edit, you are absolutely right.
So you might try lo̶o̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ actually doing that and see if it helps you stay in the game.
I keep meaning to yoga but it's there with drink and smoke less, wake up earlier, donate more etc. But if yoga keeps the games going a few more years...
Those are really great suggestions, especially as I already enjoy or have enjoyed half of them. I haven't kayaked in at least a dozen years and I live on Canada's West freakin' coast!
Pickleball seems like a slower and thus lifelong version of tennis, is that kind of the idea? Can you just not smash that sort of ball very hard/far?
Rural communities already overwhelmingly use community post boxes. If the proposed changes really disadvantage rural folks, then that'll be something to change.
Sadly, I keep too busy with other stuff so I don't have that much time for tv. I can usually sort of keep up with 1 - 2 shows at a time. I'll have a bit more in the fall but my backlog is pretty big (the Bear, Fargo and Succession are the next 3 in my queue.)
Postal service is very different from everything else you listed. The reason we're pumping so much money into those is that money should act as a significant multiplier for creating jobs and moving money through tbe economy.
Subsidizing the Post, while creating a better service doesn't have the same sort of multiplier benefit, other than the Keynesian hole digging style of employment.
I may not love the climate effects of some of these projects but from a "will these employ people and get a decent amount of money closing through the economy", the answer is pretty definitively yes.
These are pretty inspiring examples! I guess I just have to change my headspace from "I'm losing soccer" to "I'm picking up a new lifelong sport."