Buying $10k bikes with disc brakes with Social Security (that I don't need) that you pay every month of which you will never see a dime.

Also walking the dog.

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Obvious answer is they are on ST, posting away.

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My parents (mid 60s) never retired and will likely work until they're in the grave. Not that they need to. They haven't needed to since they were in their 30s. They're just hardwired to work. Same goes for most of their friends.

That's a key difference from the situation now.

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Boomers have no idea, it was a different time then. Goals for them were to get a corporate job ( no degree needed) get married, buy a house, hate their job and have kids.

Now some of them despise the fact that younger generations get to live a more carefree lifestyle without being tied down to the "American Dream"

The jobs they got are not longer there, a degree no longer means a good job.

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I don't follow. Expand?

They complain about the cancellation of the Racine 69.1 swim, since everyone knows it's not a real triathlon unless you swam in 40 degree water with 3-5 foot waves.

Joe Rogan calls it f*ck you money. It is basically when you have enough money that you don't have to be at work. Once this occurs, you don't let the day to day bs bother you and you can actually enjoy your job.

The difficult thing about being a boomer is working out how to spend all the money you've accumulated so that you have nothing left when you fall into your coffin. I already have four bikes but unless they increase the price of bikes, that method just won't do it. And I've had a gutful of travelling overseas.

On a more serious note, when I retired I taught myself to become a bike mechanic and wonder how I managed all those years ago when I first started in triathlon.

Mum walks past my house every day to see if I'm home. Inevitably, I'm on the trainer working on getting my FTP +2 and she wants to chat about the garden. So, she chats, I huff and puff and then she eventually observes that I'm sweating like a man. Calls me tough. Then walks home... like a lady. Then she calls all her lady friends to brag about her bad ass daughter. Total Tri promoter. My mum could have kicked our arses if she had been allowed.

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San Luis Obispo, CA

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Yeah. About that. We've had a few baby boomers hired into my, otherwise younger, IT department. They were all hard workers. And that was actually the problem. When there was no work (i.e. everything was working fine and we were having no issues) the younger workers screwed around online or worked side gigs or read documentation and learned new things, while baby boomers were going around finding work to do.

In the IT business "finding work to do" is synonymous with making unauthorized changes at the very best, and breaking what wasn't broken at the very worst. They could not be convinced to stop. They'd ALWAYS go and fuck with things that didn't need touching whenever there was no other work.

The days of staying busy all day for the sake of hard work are over in many maybe most industries. That's not how google got rich, or amazon or microsoft. Today you got to be smart.

Besides the biggest lie the working class was ever told was to make them believe that hard work was their idea.

Early bird specials, reruns of Matlock and Murder, She Wrote.

Don't forget The Rockford Files

This might be the greatest thing I've read here lol

D'Kid has this on her Spotify amid Halsey, The 1975, Panic!, Fallout Boy, etc



"Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty four"

She was born in 1961, then

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

They spend all their time complaining to their second and third wives about how millennials are destroying family values and will never get married; trying to refinance their balloon payment for their mortgage on a $250,000 house they paid seven figures for, while wondering why millennials aren't buying houses; and reminiscing with their friends on facebook about the good old days of the dotcom boom while complaining about how millennials are glued to their phones.

Every generation ever has complained about the generation that succeeded it. It is a bit ironic because each generation is a product of the generation before it. Boomers love to complain about all those participation medals and trophies millennials received as kids. Well, if it wasn't the baby boomers that bought those participation trophies, I am not really sure where they came from (P.S. triathletes are forever forbidden to complain about participation medals as almost every race hands them out). That said boomers, complain away! You have earned it. I cannot imagine having been a young adult during the free love movement and having had to listen to the complaints my depression era kin had about the "new generation". I am just biding my time until I can start blaming all of the millenials' parenting mistakes on the generation after us. You think we are bad, woofta wait till you see our kids, those guys are the worst. :)

We did something right. Our life expectancy is greater than our kids'.

Yup... Those darn millennials really caused a public health crisis when they bought into all the sugar products marketed towards them growing up and replaced all the fat in their diets with sugar. You silly rabbit, Trix are for Kids!

Seems like that's something wrong to me....

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I wrote this, you should read it:
https://www.slowtwitch.com/...n_Swimming_6700.html

There was the 70s and the 80s to get through. If you could make it past that, you could consider yourself nigh indestructible

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Well, my "kid" (son) is 25.....and about 145#'s. But.....Point taken.

As a whole,........yeah.....we let them down. There's a generation of people who are going to social media themselves to an early death.

I was thinking the same thing.
My father was born during the depression and spent WW2 in gradeschool. I'm at the tail end of the Boomers, having been born in '62. When I was a little kid my father would shake his head with wonder and mumble how on Earth my generation was ever going to amount to anything.

Fast forward and we have 3 boys, ages 13 & 14. And I've totally turned into my father.

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"If only he had used his genius for niceness, instead of Evil." M. Smart

Organize my CD collection and reminisce about the music from the '60s through the '80s. One day when I retire I may retrieve my LPs from the basement and start selling them to millenials!

TennesseeJed, love your comments about participation trophies and medals. I'm a late boomer (born in 59) who was so self absorbed in triathlon that I didn't have kids so I'm innocent. ;)

Hahaha Thank you for starting this thread I needed to read this :)

Post selfies of themselves working out. Make the name of their strava activity however fast they went on the bike or run that day. Post weird S*** on facebook all the time. Register for 4 70.3 a year and 2 ironmans. Probably only make it to half of those races. Rant on slowtwitch about kona slots going to younger age groups and suggest an idea that younger age groups don't get a kona slot. hmmmmmmmmmmm

Oh, give it up. I'm a tail-end Gen X'er and we have the least amount of free time after trying to clean up the mess that the boomers left us and trying to keep the millennials from screwing it up even worse.

This. Is. Spot. On. (I'm in the same cohort, and IME: the pink font was a bit overkill).

What's worse: the millennials are now reproducing, and there's not nearly enough airspace for all the helicoptering...

ETA: my rents bought a beach-town waterfront vacation home for cash... and then saw it's value 4x in like 3yrs... at that point they moved into it full time for retirement...15?yrs ago. So they must be doing something right... 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Ha Ha Haaaaa!

Yes Yes Yes Yes.

No particular order:
Spend 10 minutes per day on Slowtwitch learning everything I need to know to try to win my age group
Fix bikes
Relearn guitar, hopefully better than 'back in the day"
Plan trips
Work on motorhome to do those trips
Take 4-6 month long winter trips out west to get warm and see kids and soon to be grandkids . . .babysit as required
Spend time with the local kids, grandaughter, and babysit when we get the chance
Volunteer education at local eco park with young kids
Help out with various political campaigns
Help local kids with various home improvement projects
Do as much as humanly possible to get my assigned chores completed
Go have a beer with a few friends and complain about how the world is going to hell (not really, no time for that)
Go on local camping trips
Until last couple years, took care of our parents in many ways
Help our kids move from time to time
Gonna make beer one of these days when I have time
Read a lot when I make time or the weather is crappy
Okay, my 10 minutes of ST time is over for the day . . .

I'm a boomer, that didn't happen.. no free time, too busy earning a living and paying for my millennial kids' college..

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"It is a good feeling for old men who have begun to fear failure, any sort of failure, to set a schedule for exercise and stick to it. If an aging man can run a distance of three miles, for instance, he knows that whatever his other failures may be, he is not completely wasted away." Romain Gary, SI interview

Counting their money.

so they were able to a buy a house in their 20's (now worth 5x more) off a 9-5 job that didn't require a degree and build up a ton of net worth for early retirement.


Actually, I think you are referring to Boomer's parents.

I thought TRI appears in the word triathlon to denote THREE disciplines. My damn public school education is failing me again