People You See In London #9

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Date: 22 September 2004 22:21:54

The Joggers.

Joggers travel in pairs (although if you're lucky you'll spot a pack of jogging ladies at certain times of the day all over London) usually a male/female combination of high-powered training shoes, sports bras and water bottles. Joggers are always skinny, have good jobs and live in boxes in or near Canary Wharf. Their smug jogging outfits, glowing looks and fitness fanaticism makes everyone else in the Capital feel incredibly penitent towards their own bodies, causing them to think hard for the five minutes it takes to walk from wherever they are to the pub about buying some good trainers and a water bottle, getting up at masochistic hours and running through Southbank/Hyde Park/Hampstead Heath. Of course, the call of a cool Stella and a bag of Steak flavoured McCoy's will soon put a rest to that sort of thinking.