Midlife athletes: How far should you push it?

In search of the line between tolerating less physicality and pretending you're still 35.

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing; moderation is for Canadians.”

For most of my adult life, I pledged allegiance to the above, semi-obnoxious mantra. Fatherhood and Father Time¹ induced me to change, although the anti-moderation zealot in me sometimes still emerges — usually at the gym, in the water or on the tennis court. Only now, in my 50s, the …