My Journey With Health And Fitness – Age Doesn’t Matter

My apologies for not posting yesterday, there was a major emergency with one of my cats which I will likely post about on Tuesday.

Today I slept in, well my version of sleeping in which is until 5am. I then went out for a 2 hour walk down to the beach, along the pier and promenade and back. It was such a glorious morning. The temperature was perfect and there were so many people out so early in the morning. I got home and rested for only an hour before setting out on my second walk just because we are under a heat warning. I have already decided that for the next several days it will likely be a lot of walking on the dreaded treadmill in the garage with the fan blowing on me just to keep myself safe from the heat.

I started noticing something at my fitness classes, I am often the oldest person participating and I mean by far. Most of those that are in the 5:30am classes tend to be in there mid 30’s to mid 40’s. Yes, there are a couple ladies that are a bit older but pretty sure none of them are as close to 60 as I am.

This past Saturday I looked around the gym and realized I had at least 2 decades on the majority of the attendees. Wow, is that a bit intimidating. We did a circuit routine and I ended up partnered with someone who was not only 15+ years younger than me but also extremely thin and fit. You know what, that just challenged me to keep up with her. I admit, there were some things where she was faster than me but there were others where I held my own such as doing the bench pushups. At the end we congratulated each other on doing a good job.

This just makes me want to recap this journey. I was 54 and obese when I started. By 55 I had decided to start running and managed to make my goal of being able to run 10km. At 56 I actually ran a 1/2 marathon (probably not doing that one again). So now at 57, I am back on track to get myself super fit and you know what, I don’t really care that I am the oldest one in the room. What I really care about is none of those others in my classes looks at me thinking what is the old lady doing, rather they help push me to be the best that I can be.