No boys allowed

It's clear that we need safe spaces for women as much as ever. With Hot Boys Athletics in London, Kimiko Ninomiya has done that in the form of a running club.

A look into my process. I usually have half a dozen interviews banked, so every week I choose which one I write up. Current events inform this decision, so what have I been noticing of late?

• Artist du jour, Chappell Roan speaking out about her increasing numbers of stalkers

• Elon Musk suggesting a republic of “free-thinking” “high-status males” is the solution

• Self-diagnosed high-status male, Andrew Tate boasting about trafficking and exploiting women

• Olympic athlete, Rebecca Cheptegei was set on fire by her ex-boyfriend, suffering 75% burns

Yeah, this is going to be another man-hating article. Sorry, lads.

The subject of this week’s interview? Kimiko Ninomiya of Hot Boys Athletics, a women-only running club in London that is as much a performance incubator as it is a a haven from the everyday dangers of existing as a woman.

Kimi moved from New York to London around the start of the pandemic. In NYC, she had been training with Black Roses, under the tutelage of Knox Robinson, so she was disap…