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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Katie Strick

Sound systems! Confetti canons! Singles nights! 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.

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