{"id":3667,"date":"2017-09-08T19:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:30","slug":"the-big-question-david-montieth-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2017\/09\/08\/the-big-question-david-montieth-67\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Question: David Montieth \u201967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How do you take care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just before I turned 60 I began high jumping again.<\/p>\n<p>I had not taken a single jump since my last Wabash track meet\u00a038 years earlier. I was shocked to find my jumps were about 1\u00bd feet lower than my best at Wabash (6\u2019 8\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>To redeem my self-respect I joined a gym, worked out\u00a0frequently, changed my eating habits, and began competing in Masters track meets year-round.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I retired at age 66, I felt better than I had in the previous 20-plus years.<\/p>\n<p>Just as we needed to train to attain our athletic goals at\u00a0Wabash, we now need to stay \u201cin training\u201d to achieve an even more important goal: living a high-quality life during our most vulnerable period, which we reluctantly call aging.<\/p>\n<p>Masters athletic programs are now quite popular. Last year we<br \/>\nhad our first 100-year-old high jumper!<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVID MONTIETH \u201967<\/strong><br \/>\nRidgefield, CT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos by Kim Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you take care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally? Just before I turned 60 I began high jumping again. I had not taken a single jump since my last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-videos","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/montieth-high-jump2-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}