Ninety minutes of singing, dancing and running across the stage of Wembley Stadium clearly isn’t tiring enough for Harry Styles – who was spotted jogging from his Hampstead home to the venue ahead of his London gig.
The ex-One Direction singer is currently mid-way through a 12-night residency, part of his Together Together tour in support of his fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
While most artists opt for a private car or the tube to travel to their London gigs, Styles opted for a sweatier mode of transport. The singer, 32, was seen running to his third concert at Wembley on Friday (19 June), with fans assuming that he had set off from his home in Hampstead, north west London.
Styles, who would have run just shy of 10km to the gig, was filmed jogging in blue shorts, a grey jumper and a cross-shoulder bum bag by a fan. “Harry Styles running to his own show,” they wrote in the caption on their TikTok video. “Our second encounter on his run to work & I was still too stunned to speak.”
Other fans flooded the comments, with one writing: “He has to be the first person ever to just jog to his own stadium show.” Another wrote: “I thought Chris Martin getting the train to Cardiff was epic but this beats that!”
Styles is a keen runner, having competed in a number of marathons over the years. Last year, he ran the Berlin Marathon under a fake name, crossing the line in an impressive two hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds.
Based on Styles’ sub-three hour marathon time, it would have taken him just 41 minutes to jog from his north London home to Wembley Stadium.
Styles revealed in March that he discovered a passion for running after turning 30, with the hobby becoming a “processing place” while developing his recent album.
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“When you’re training for a marathon, which is the loneliest part, you just kind of set out for a run, and three hours later you come back,” he told Runner’s World. “But there’s a real synergy between that and electronic music. It’s kind of hypnotic and becomes like a mantra almost.”
Styles kicked off his Wembley residency on Friday 12 June, paying tribute to the late artist David Hockney, who had died the day before.
The energetic, dance-heavy show received a four-star review from The Independent’s Roisin O’Connor, who described it as the “grandest of homecomings” for “the consummate entertainer”.
“Buzzy dance track “Aperture” is euphoric, the whole stadium joined in his chant of ‘we belong together’,” she wrote. “It’s no mean feat to turn a cold concrete stadium into a warm, communal space, but Styles does it. That’s just how good he is.”
Styles’s residency continues on Tuesday, with the singer set for seven more gigs at the London venue.