The Adult Onset Athlete

This week's article is from Coach Kathy Morton, MD. I'm excited to have Kathy on the Greener Grass Life team as she brings a wealth of experience & wisdom as well as humor & compassion, which you're sure to notice in her article, The Adult Onset Athlete:

The Adult Onset Athlete

Okay, I’ll admit it. I used to skip gym class - a lot. Enough so, that I almost didn’t graduate from high school.

You see, I used to put off my afternoon class homework until the day it was due. If I couldn’t get it all done between classes, I would skip my morning gym class to finish it.


Eventually, my surprised parents received a letter from the school, telling them I was in danger of failing gym, and my early (January) graduation plans were in jeopardy. My English and Social Studies teachers had to suppress their smirks as I explained that I would be skipping their classes, several days that week, in order to take gym, almost all day, in order to graduate. Talk about the punishment fitting the crime.

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Thanks to the encouragement of many people, including Kathy, I now call myself an Adult Onset Athlete.

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Kim Ellis, RN BA cWC cHC
Greener Grass Life, Inc.
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