The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How to move through life with an edge.

Every former competitive athlete's worst nightmare is that moment when you lose to a younger

person doing the sport you love.

When the cocoon of invincibility and superiority you've erected around yourself comes crashing down

and a piece of your self-identity shatters, It can truly feel like the end. I know the feeling.

Several years ago on a family ski trip, my son challenged me to a downhill snowboard race.

We've been doing these races, and I'd been winning them ever since he was old enough to board.

It was tradition that we race and that I win.

It's just how it played out.

This time was different.

I was a newly minted member of the Six Decades Club.

He was a young man, fully grown, years of sports under his belt.

He smoked me.

It wasn't even close.

And suddenly I realized that despite being in the best

shape of my life relative to my age, that upper limit was trending down.

Luckily, the existential crisis was short-lived if it ever really happened. A few moments

were all I needed to realize this wasn't a tragedy.

It was the opposite.

The graduation of my son into manhood, the passing of the torch.

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