Do you think of yourself as an athlete? What does an athlete have that you don't?

My husband & I had our establish-care check ups a few days ago. My husband went first so by the time the doc got to me I'd been sitting quietly for nearly an hour. He listened to my heart, looked at my records, and took my pulse again. My resting pulse is 60. "You have the heart of an athlete," he said.

I may have the heart of an athlete but someone else has the rest of it! I have never been athletic. I'm active now (I wasn't always), but I am neither strong nor fast nor graceful. I can't catch a ball, win a race, or lift a thing. I suspect that if I had time and inclination for serious training that I'd be working against a stacked deck.

I'm finally coming to accept that I am doing a fantastic job with what I was given to work with! Well, maybe not 'fantastic' as I keep injuring myself.