Why this is the week mothers should reclaim exercise Many women have been so busy during lockdown they haven’t had time to exercise, but now schools are returning, they’re free to get moving 10 March 2021 • 5:19pm Mel Bound, founder of This Mum Runs: ‘When you’re all together 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it creeps up on you and leaves you utterly exhausted’ Credit: Andrew Fox for The Telegraph There is an odd sound in homes around the country this week – one of silence. With schools mainly open again in England (with Wales and Scotland to follow later this month), kitchen tables are being cleared of textbooks, Zoom calls can go uninterrupted and parents can relinquish their roles of substitute teacher, as the real ones take over.