I have become pretty active since being in my 40s, running, practicing martial arts, lifting and running. I do it because I really enjoy it and want to go into my 50 looking and feeling awesome.

Now to my question: Has anyone ever asked you this? I ask it because when I talked about doing martial arts and going for my black belt an ex-colleague asked me, "Aren't you a bit old for that?" I looked at him and said, "WHAT???" I then proudly told him that I was one of the oldest practitioners in my Taekwondo school. Our teacher is almost 60, the highest graded person is 61, another is 50 and I am 47 and out of all of these mature people I am the only woman. Our youngest student is 5 years old. You are never too old (or young) to practice martial arts and we, even us oldies, take part in sparring matches every week, with me being the only lady.

So it is now over to you. Has anyone ever asked you, and it could be for anything, "Aren't you too old for that?"