How interesting to read everyone's responses and realize I'm right there with you. I am working on those extra lbs I need to lose and wish I looked like an athlete. But last week, dh and I rode 10 miles to do a couple's 5k race, ran the race, rode back home, loaded the bikes and met friends for a fun, hilly 30-miler. It was great and after my last ekg, my dr said I have the heart of a 16 year old. Not too bad for a 52 year old.

I looked up the definition of an athlete and it states that it's a person possessing the natural or acquired traits that are necessary for physical exercise or sports. I may not look like an athlete, I was always too uncoordinated to do well at team sports and am convinced this belly is here to stay but by that definition, it looks like we are all athletes.