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Why are more people in the UK walking and running at night?

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It has, for many of us, become a lockdown ritual. As darkness bet 3x descends, instead of settling down, it's the moment to head out. Short winter days often mean the only time we can escape for exercise is bet 3x after dark.

Caroline Whiteman is a passionate night walker.

bet 3x Caroline Whiteman, night walker

Our hearing becomes more sensitive. My sense of smell is more acute, and you can really appreciate the air on your face in a way that during daylight hours, these things go unnoticed.

With short winter days - and lockdown - walking and running in the dark has for many of us become a daily ritual.

bet 3x David Sillito, BBC correspondent

So, it's much busier in the streets, isn't it, than it normally is?

bet 3x Professor Loretta Lees, night walking convert

It certainly is!

I joined Professor Loretta Lees - her specialism: how life is changing in towns and cities.

bet 3x David Sillito, BBC correspondent

Do you think there will be a positive benefit?

bet 3x Professor Loretta Lees

I think it will change people's perceptions of safety in their own city, they'll realise that perhaps it's not as unsafe as they, you know, hitherto thought.

Thoughts also shared by Caroline, who feels this is a freedom we should consider more.

bet 3x David Sillito, BBC correspondent

This does fly in the face of advice, especially for women, about not going out walking at night.

bet 3x Caroline Whiteman

I agree. And I would challenge that and say that everybody should be entitled to have an experience and have an adventure by night, and that shouldn't just be the preserve of men. We've been conditioned as women to believe that we have no place out in the night, and yet when you can create a place of safety for yourself whilst night walking, it builds confidence.

It's different neighbourhood to neighbourhood. But for some of us, lockdown has made the dark a little less bet 3x forbidding.

Did you get it?

Why are more people in the UK walking and running at night?

Because the winter days are shorter and those working at home who want to exercise can only do it after dark.