Every Wednesday at six P.M., a mass of runners descends on New York City’s Washington Square Park. They are here for the weekly meetup of the TikTok-viral Lunge Run Club, whose tagline is “Run First. #BeersAfter. Find Love.”
Lunge’s weekly three-mile runs—or 1.5-mile “hot walks,” for those so inclined—attract anywhere between 50 and 1,500 people. Singles wear black, while the few poor souls in relationships (usually pressed into service by an anxious solo friend) wear color. Afterward, the group congregates at a bar in the West Village or Chelsea.
