I did a stair climb up a high rise in Seattle on my 31st birthday. Something like 72 flights. Hurt like hell. Great fun though!
Go surfing! Catch one wave for every year. At my age (53) it takes a little longer every year but I love surfing so it’s great!
Eat a 150oz steak or at least try to. Makes for a good (or very sick) birthday.
1 mile swim,30 mile ride, 7 mile run for 38years eat and drink what you want.
For my 53 rd birthday this year it was 1.5 miles swimming, 43.5 mile ride, 8 mile run. You can also do something over a couple of days to celebrate. Monty’s 40th birthday is a masterpiece.I would have substituted 40 holes of golf instead of the bowling but brilliant.
we share a birthday! I’ll be 25…
Drink your age in beers…
Great thread!!
I LOVE birthdays…and I love to do something AWESOME on my day which has in the past included something active!! My 32nd I went sky diving…my 33rd I swam across the lake in my town (back when I couldn’t swim!!) 2 miles…34th …hmmmm, don’t remember…longer bike ride than before…and last year I did my first Olympic tri that I had been training for. This year, in a couple of weeks, I am going on a weekend get away with my Ironman team to do a full training weekend (some of our last long workouts!)
Do what you love…and what you don’t love…after all; you can…you made it another year!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Birthdays are lame and I mark mine privately, but I like this idea. In my case it will be 35 minutes of each discipline as I age into a new age group.
Hey…you never know…it may make your birthday even something you look forward to!!
run your age in miles…in the middle of the night if you can’t get the time off from work.
Ok, so today was my 48th birthday and I attempted a lunchtime double with a “48” theme.
At 12:30pm, I jumped in the pool swam 4 sets of 800m (1 x 800, 2 x 400, 4 x 200, 8 x 100). After the swim, I changed into running clothes and attempted an hour run with 48 minutes at marathon pace.
My first mistake was not eating any lunch before my workout. I compounded my mistake by not taking any water on the run.
Everything was going well on the run until about mile 6, when I took a wrong turn and ended up getting lost on a golf course. (I’m new to the area). My run ended up being 2 miles longer than planned and an additional 20 minutes of bonked suffering.
When I finally got home from work, my wife took one look at me and cancelled our dinner reservations. I’m now going to sleep at 9:45pm on my birthday.
My birthday today. Rode hills for 1.5 hours on my bike. Pretty simple but fun!
I turned 45 Tuesday and swam 45 x 100y on 1:45.
Get a 6 pack of beer and a basketball… after every 3 or 4 points scored (count by ones or 3’s if you like I don’t care) chug a beer. If running and drinking at the same time don’t get you buzzed fast you didn’t do it right.
WR marathon pace is 4:43
26 x Hold 4:43 pace for as long as you can with 1 minute 26 second recovery when you start to get tired :)… all out a minimum of 262meters regardless of where you lose the pace)
As you know a marathon is 26.2 not 26 so for good luck and to get the .2
2 laps of Burpee Broad Jumps ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvCLxD3BI98 )
I try to ride up a really big mountain. Two years ago I did Highway 330 to Bear for the first time. Or maybe that was last year. This year I think I am going to try Mt. Baldy.
Chad
I know someone here whose favorite “special ocassion” workout is 100x100the in the pool. Special ocassions include her birthday, friends birthday, new husbands birthday, her bachlerete party, her wedding…
Man up, swim a 100yard fly for each of your years. Then drink a beer for each year starting on a Friday night go until you finish. See ya in a week or so.
this is what I do too- swim my age in distance and time by 100’s, but then I bike my age in distance and run my age in time! I try to get people to join me as well-makes it fun
My birthday was yesterday and I thought I was good running a 13.1mi PR before work. You guys make me feel like a slacker… Thanks!