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    Lucy Marcovitch

    Lucy Marcovitch

    Lucy Marcovitch is an education consultant and writer. She has written for print publications and for a range of blogs and websites. She has also published two picture books for young children and a guide to reading in the early years for parents. Her blog about writing and literature for children and young adults is www.lucymarcovitch.wordpress.com.

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    Why you Should Join a Running Club
    27Nov

    Why you Should Join a Running Club
    Lucy Marcovitch
    exercise, loneliness, self, wellbeing
    Body
    “You should join a running club”. After the third person made the same suggestion I wondered if they knew something I didn’t. I’ve always run alone, happy at my own pace, competing against myself. Joining a running club had crossed my mind, but the idea of running with lots of people made me nervous – my perception was that I simply wasn’t good enough. A general impression of running clubs is that they are for ‘serious’ runners: gnarly men and whippet-like women who run marathons at weekends and compete in county leagues. Ruth thought the same: “I was always...
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    What’s Turning Men Onto Yoga?
    05Dec

    What’s Turning Men Onto Yoga?
    Lucy Marcovitch
    men, yoga
    Body
    In ten years of practicing yoga, I have never been alongside more than the odd man, usually glimpsed once and never seen again. Yet a quick head count at my class the other month confirmed my suspicions of a growing phenomenon: the women were outnumbered. What brings men these days to a yoga class? The newest recruits have a quick answer: Ryan Giggs. For Euan, 42, the footballer was the deciding factor. “I didn’t really know what I was getting into,” he says, having been persuaded to try yoga to relieve the aches and stiffness that often followed sports sessions....
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