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Come for a run, stay for a drink: How running clubs took off in Australia
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Runners from Sydney's Coogee Run Club getting ready for a run.
ST PHOTO: JONATHAN PEARLMAN
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SYDNEY – On a warm Tuesday evening at Coogee Beach, one of Sydney’s most popular beaches, 32-year-old Courtney Tobin admitted to being nervous as she prepared to join a group of strangers for an organised coastal run.
Ms Tobin, a local resident who works in fashion, had decided to try out the Coogee Run Club, one of the many booming social running clubs that have popped up in Sydney in recent years.
