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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by chakalakasp on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:41AM (#12836161)
Not regularly exercising after I finished high school. You should definitely do that. The time to start really exploring all the cool stuff your body is capable of doing is before and during its peak, not as it slides down the slope into the trough of old age. I find myself wondering how fast I could have run a half marathon 20 years ago if I'd become a runner then, but I'll never know.

I regret not beating out a fellow photographer for the cover of National Geographic, but there isn't much I could do to change that one, it's just one of those "damn, my best wasn't quite good enough" moments. But fortunately photographic ability doesn't decline with age, though the relevance of the medium might.

Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by usgroup on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:42AM (#12837782)
If you spent your times running marathons in your 20s and 30s, you'd have a good chance of being in for a total hip / knee replacements in your 40s. Swings and roundabouts!
Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by ASpring on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:54PM (#12840303)
Is this actually true? I always see it bandied about without data.
Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by strongai on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @05:41AM (#12844388)
Again anecdotally, I have a keen running doctor friend in the UK who had 2 hip replacements by the time he was 40. Now that he's in his mid 50s, he's looking at replacements for his replacements.
Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by usgroup on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:32PM (#12841557)
Anecdotally. A friend is a surgeon. Does knees and hips. Says patients are getting younger. E.g. late 30s for total knee replacement is no longer uncommon; usually endurance athletes.
Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? by personlurking on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:23AM (#12836447)
> But fortunately photographic ability doesn't decline with age, though the relevance of the medium might.

Side note from a few days ago: Sebastiao Salgado (72) believes photography in process of extinction

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2016/10/28/se...