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One of the most surprising things about getting older is not the emerging wrinkles, nor the stiff back upon rising in the morning. Its not the realisation that I have turned into my mother, nor that I think most young peoples music is nothing but noise. No. One of the most surprising things about getting older for me, as a woman, is this: its that I actually enjoy exercise.

As a child at school, I learnt that exercise was a sort of state-sanctioned punishment. Through the brutal humiliation of never being picked for the netball or lacrosse team, I understood that you should not bother doing exercise unless you excelled at it, which, now I come to think about it, is like telling someone they shouldnt cook unless they happen to have a Michelin star.

Then, as a teenager and 20-something, I discovered that exercise was a necessary evil if you wanted to lose weight or stay trim. A moment on the lips meant a lifetime on the hips. Unless, of course, I worked out, in which case I could treat myself to a bite or two of chocolate.

It was only in my 30s, when I found myself running as a means to escape my own head (running away from myself, in a way), did I realise that I could enjoy exercise. That when it was something you did for your mental health rather than your physical health, it could, in fact, be really rather glorious indeed.

The revelation was life-changing. Suddenly, exercise was not about the losses the inches on my hips, the pounds on the scale but the gains: the endorphins, the mental clarity, the time to myself.

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