Wall Street Journal has an article on "The Workout Spouse" or what I'll call the "The Running Spouse". It presents these one on one workout relationships with the opposite sex as being strictly platonic and a good idea.
Most of article is behind a paywall, but here is how it starts.
"Kim Austin and Mark Abair bicker like an old married couple. She chides him for always starting out too fast at races. On long runs, she rolls her eyes when he insists on finding a port-a-potty.
Ms. Austin is married, but not to Mr. Abair. Instead, he serves as what hard-core exercisers call a workout husband—the exercise equivalent of a work spouse. They run together, but their relationship is strictly platonic.
Training partners have a special relationship, regardless of gender. They are there for each other’s athletic highs and lows. Inevitably they learn about each other’s quirks and personal lives as they spend hours running or biking. That intimacy can mirror the familiarity of a couple, says Sandra Possing, a Bay Area life coach and fitness instructor.
“You’re often a sweaty mess, wearing unflattering clothes, face free of makeup, you might let out a fart,” she says. “You’re inherently vulnerable.”
Thoughts?
Anyone on here do this?
