I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.

We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person - that's your tribe.

I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.

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