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It was a yoga session that made me want to take up running again. Let me explain. Some friends invited me and my wife to come and do yoga in their garden, first thing in the morning. I thought yoga involved a lot of lying on a mat breathing deeply and guessed that the session might be like a sort of outdoor lie-in with a bit of stretching, so I agreed. This was a mistake. I’m not supple: I can’t even sit cross-legged and I don’t think I can touch my toes any more (I’m too scared to try to be honest). So having a go at yoga was always going to be a stretch in more ways than one. But this was very very difficult. Turns out my friends were following an intermediate session on YouTube and, as I face-planted into my mat yet again instead of taking up the correct pose, I concluded that yoga was not for me. Not yet anyway. But what I really noticed was that, while I was exhausted after 10 minutes, my friends were still going strong after 45 minutes. They were fit. I wasn’t any more. That hurt.
Is it true that most men who have played a fair amount of sport in their youth assume that they will retain what is sometimes called ‘a residual level of fitness’? I’ve kind of thought like that since I was about 40. All that squash and football and running and er… snooker was like putting fitness coins into a frozen account which could be accessed later in the years when my eating and drinking habits continued unchanged, but the amount of moving about I did reduced significantly. I am now ready to see if the theory holds water. Can my body revert to factory settings? How soon can I run like a 17 year-old again? Where are my running shoes? Where is a stop-watch? Do people use stop-watches any more?
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