ABSTRACT
O u t s i d e the window of the room in London where this chapter is being written, two seemingly unrelated events are occurring. A red double-decker bus-one of the sights that identifies London to the rest of the world-is slowly chugging down Sloane Street. Behind it on the sidewalk a jogger, clad in shorts and a sleeveless running shirt, is moving quickly down the street. Soon the jogger overtakes the bus and disappears, paying
no more attention to the bus than he would a tree! What the runner doesn’t know-and what most people don’t know-is that the bus (or more properly, the people who work on it) is one of the reasons there is a jogging craze in the United States and the beginning of similar trends all over the Western world. What is the relation between London bus workers and joggers? Read on!
