Over 50's club

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Velociraptor Jun 2021 6:39pm, 13 Jun 2021 52,979 posts	0 Velociraptor By "endpoints", I mostly mean dead people. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Velociraptor Jun 2021 6:46pm, 13 Jun 2021 52,980 posts	0 Velociraptor (I should add that my personal preference would be for the optimal amount of endurance exercise to be around the amount I actually do and I wouldn't particularly care if doing ultramarathons week in, week out made people drop dead prematurely from heart disease apart from the fact that some of my favourite people run shitloads of miles or live on their bicycles. But there's little reason to assert that this is the case.)
Hills of Death (HOD) Jun 2021 6:59pm, 13 Jun 2021 35,758 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) Been having dizzy spells once or twice a week when standing g up. Had tests nothing found thought it was my meds but they say can’t be been on since November.
FenlandRunner Jun 2021 7:02pm, 13 Jun 2021 6,628 posts	0 FenlandRunner I know that I do too much, and if I ever complete the UTLD100 I will be out of anything bordering of endurance. It is a calculated risk. And to be fair, I doubt that there has ever been so many social runners in history running stupid amounts. Previously it was elites. And we all know the life expectancy of Olympic meda winners.
Velociraptor Jun 2021 7:15pm, 13 Jun 2021 52,981 posts	0 Velociraptor It would be really interesting to see what happens long term, statistically, to unselected recreational runners like us (TdF riders and Olympians may not represent us well as the factors that allow them to perform at an elite level may confer survival benefits in themselves) in terms of health and survival. It'll probably take another decade or more before we have reliable evidence just because of the relative newness of the phenomenon of "social runners running stupid amounts".
Eynsham Red Jun 2021 7:41pm, 13 Jun 2021 7,673 posts	0 Eynsham Red HoD, are you on meds for your high blood pressure? If you are and aren’t keeping well hydrated in this warm weather that might be a cause of your dizziness when standing. It’s certainly the case for me and I’ve been on them for several years. Just a thought.
Ness Jun 2021 7:41pm, 13 Jun 2021 15,734 posts	0 Ness It is an interesting thought, Vrap. When Mr Krikler did my hip resurfacing in 2003, I paid to have to done in the Nuffield at Leamington Spa. Because I was paying he discussed his success rate with the surgery at that point. I think he said he’d done a couple Of hundred of that op at the time because it was relatively new. He said it had a high success rate and estimated the new hip might last for 14 or 15 years. Since then the failure rate in women has been high so I’m not sure resurfaced hips are done for women any more. I think they go the total hip replacement route.
Rosehip Jun 2021 7:52pm, 13 Jun 2021 21,423 posts	0 Rosehip that escardio paper is interesting - it's 10 year's old though, need a citation search to see what has been done since - if the "bizarre electrical changes not commonly seen in normal ECGs" have been better described - or explained by an overdose of sugar and caffeine - for instance.
Dvorak Jun 2021 8:29pm, 13 Jun 2021 22,612 posts	0 Dvorak Endurance athletes are those doing over six hours a week ? (Although maybe I can stand down my concern, as walking was not on the list of included activities. Nor reasonably exerting gardening.)
Hills of Death (HOD) Jun 2021 9:11pm, 13 Jun 2021 35,760 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) No the meds are for Anxiety