I HAVE never been what you’d call athletic. Over the years I’ve dabbled with exercise: running, yoga, squash, cycling, this and that. I don’t like too much inactivity but I’m definitely a dabbler. I have rarely taken a disciplined approach to sport except during my early twenties, when an eating disorder revealed hitherto unimagined reserves of steel. I…
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