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A half-marathon before work? Meet the exercise obsessives who only date other runners

By Georgina Roberts & Hannah Evans
The Times·
18 mins to read

Abandon your social life. Get up at 4am. Run a quick half-marathon before heading to the office. For some fitness superfans that’s all in a day’s work. After smashing a personal best (PB) on a Tuesday morning (and on a Wednesday and Thursday too), they log it on Strava and head to their day jobs in recruitment and law.

Not long ago it was really only elite athletes who meticulously tracked their fitness statistics. But now any jogger, cyclist or

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