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The economics of running

Does a hotter economy really make you faster?

Parkrun, a free Saturday morning 5km run popular in Britain, attracts certain types. There are the parents blasting out nursery rhymes from their running buggies. There are the walkers who finish after me but with more of their dignity intact. There are the sprinters with T-shirts boasting “MUD BRUTE RUN 2017”. And there is me, red-faced, pondering the economics.

Exercise tends to be a rich person’s pursuit, but running skews even richer. Combining the Active Lives Survey with ONS data, it seems that in England about half of regular runners are in managerial, administrative and professional occupations, the top socio-economic category. That compares with two in five walkers, and one in three footballers or cyclists.

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