Hayley* wasn’t looking for love when she joined her local running club. “It was just something I enjoyed doing every weekend,” the 30-year-old marketing assistant explains. But then she met a man – let’s call him Rob. “We were friends at first and things progressed from there; he asked me out after a couple of months.” That was three years ago. Fast forward and there’s no sign of things slowing down; the couple live together in north London and regularly run alongside one another all over the world.
“It was quite a liberating way to meet someone,” Hayley recalls. “It takes the pressure off because you’ve got this common interest; you’re both doing something you love. And you’re doing it for you. You’re not putting loads of pressure on it, so it doesn’t feel contrived.”
