A moment that changed me: A WhatsApp message about a little-known sport made me an unlikely celebrity in Japan
It was December 2023 and I was searching in the attic for Christmas decorations when my phone pinged. I pulled ...
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My rookie era: As a working mother, I had forgotten how to have fun. Then I played my first floorball match
I’d spent a season on the sidelines at my daughter’s floorball matches, watching 10-year-old girls brandishing sticks to smack the ...
A moment that changed me: I was turning 40 with an arthritis diagnosis – on a whim I took up my favourite teen hobby again
At 14, I decided to learn a martial art. I told my parents it was to defend myself on the ...
49 ways to have fun right now! Skydive in a wind tunnel, count dogs and run like a three-year-old
Cartwheel. On the day we scattered my father’s ashes, we lightened the mood with some competitive gymnastics. I don’t know ...
Am I a deluded attention-seeker? Why I’m running the London Marathon dressed as a badger
Delusion. That’s the crucial prerequisite for running a marathon in fancy dress, according to the ultramarathon competitor and cancer survivor ...
‘Worst case I get to ride a lot’: Lael Wilcox on her quest to become the fastest human to cycle round the world
On 11 September 2024, Lael Wilcox returned to Chicago after 108 days in the saddle, smashing the women’s around-the-world cycling ...
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