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Speeder - its a known fact that your taste in trainers enters a state of arrested development when you hit 18. My own embraces a full contingent of similar vintage Adidas and New Balance, and I'm the same age as you (and most definitely consider myself middle-aged/borderline codger)
Always view anyone your age who wears more up-to-date trainers with rightful suspicion
You do get extra middle-aged points for buying them in the sales. I buy my NB's whenever I'm in the factory shop in Keswick 
When I was 18 I wore (primarily because they were in the sale bin and only a size too big)
And thought they might've looked a bit cool with the stretched skin-tight light-denim jeans
Must've hit 'peak trend' at 18 because since have I've worn mostly utilitarian boots and shoes, latterly with orthotic insoles. Trainers are now bought from Lidl because they fit and feel better than any branded ones I've paid quadruple for in the past on 1st podiatrist's recommendations. Luckily found a better one who not only told me that the last one had mis-measured my feet, but that their advice for expensive trainers was not necessarily good advice. A well-fitting, well-ventilated pair with a wide-ish outer sole and toe-box are what work best. So I wear the Lidl specials at the gym, to the pool, on the bike in summer and for short walking exercise.
Wearing trainers for fashion purposes now seems a little odd to me, not really getting the rules re sports shoes, especially post-teenager. The 'rules' feel like someone trying to explain backgammon in Chinese, I just draw a blank/ imagine that it's all a complicated cyclic mind-game just for the profit of the fashion industry
Defintely a suspicious character. Would have been called a 'spak' at school for wearing the wrong type of clothes and shoes. In fact I think I was! Especially for the knock-off (yet canvas) snorkel-a-like jacket that I was given to wear at school. All the proper kids had (similarly) unbranded only nylon, dark blue ones with orange lining. The stuck up gits.
Bla bla mutter mutter clothes and shoes. Hmph. (Reaches for pipe and sherry)
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1, Peak fashion sense over 25 years ago - check
2, Don't care about 1 - check
3, Get injured at the slightest sign of an unusual activity without a lengthy warm-up - check
4, May be spotted in slippers outside - check
Yep, I'm full middle aged.
You’re 36 you’re 4 years off 40 a lot can happen before you hit 40, you’re not middle aged you’re still young. Enjoy at anytime it may end.
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