{"id":34885,"date":"2018-04-01T01:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/01\/fitter-faster-and-clad-in-lycra-the-middle-aged-men-racing-against-stereotypes\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T01:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T23:05:03","slug":"fitter-faster-and-clad-in-lycra-the-middle-aged-men-racing-against-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=34885","title":{"rendered":"Fitter, faster and clad in lycra: the middle-aged men racing against stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAMIL, a documentary exploring the lives and motivations of men who cycle, is surprisingly emotionalYou see them everywhere. Kitted out in form-hugging Lycra, cycling in groups down leafy lanes, racing past buses on crowded roads, chatting on corners. Now they\u2019re on cinema screens, too. A documentary film out next week aims to capture the Mamil (middle-aged man in Lycra) experience, almost a decade after the phenomenon began.\u201cI wanted to examine what life is like today for middle-aged men,\u201d says the film\u2019s Australian director Nickolas Bird. \u201cWhat makes them tick and what pressures they\u2019re under \u2013 I also wanted to explore topics like masculinity, men\u2019s health, how men support each other and how minority groups and women fit into the Mamil world.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/mar\/31\/mamil-documentary-men-middle-age-cycling-lycra-health\" target=\"_blank\">Fitter, faster and clad in lycra: the middle-aged men racing against stereotypes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAMIL, a documentary exploring the lives and motivations of men who cycle, is surprisingly emotionalYou see them everywhere. Kitted out in form-hugging Lycra, cycling in groups down leafy lanes, racing past buses on crowded roads, chatting on corners. Now they\u2019re on cinema screens, too. A documentary film out next week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}