'Marathon season has become the new fashion week': how running clubs got cool
It’s Friday night and Emily Audsley and her housemates are heading home on the Northern Line, endorphins still racing through their bodies.
It’s been a classic house night out, in many ways — crowds of sweaty 20 and 30-somethings gathered under a railway arch near London Bridge, dance music blaring from several neon-lit sound systems, confetti cannons sending bright plumes of colour into the sky — but it won’t be a regular hangover they’re facing in the morning.
“Don’t think I’m going to be able to walk tomorrow,” says Audsley, 30, a recruiter from Balham who always used to marvel at those people who set their alarms for a parkrun on a Saturday morning. It’s the second time she’s managed to get a ticket for Friday Night Lights (FNL), a hot new “big energy” running event that markets itself as London’s healthiest night out and has amassed 41,000 followers on Instagram since its launch nine months ago.
Her housemate Georgina Winfield, 30, isn’t a runner at all, but succumbed to the hype and is glad she did. “I’m
