Toned and athletic: five who train before breakfast

Athletic through the shoulders, long black hair worn straight, brown eyes that hold still. Angelika swims with a squad at six, in cold water, and reads short novels between the two. She books the early sitting at a table on the park side of Canada Square, then either the dock loop or straight back up depending on what the wind is doing. Two hours at £500 covers the table and the walk with time to spare; £900 buys the four hour version for a night that starts late.

Light brown hair lifted by the sun, green eyes, a runner's pace and a strong preference for being outdoors before she is indoors. A walk and a table together need three hours at £700; if the evening stays inside one building, £500 covers two. Laura works the Royal Docks and ExCeL side as well as E14, so a conference evening that wants twenty minutes of air first is straightforward. Say whether you want to be outside and the start time is set against the sunset.

Honey blonde, hazel eyed, and an open water swimmer in every month of the year. Nora meets you at the end of a conference day and makes it stop, which is a specific and underrated skill. Conference evenings run short, so two hours at £500 is her common booking, with £700 across three when dinner will not be eaten standing up. She works out of Paddington across E16 and E14. Tell the desk which end of the halls you are at and she meets you there.

Sonya is thirty two, dark brown hair worn straight, hazel eyed, with a dancer's posture and no interest in a loud room. She watches dance, goes to film clubs and drinks her coffee black. A performance and supper together want £700 across three hours; the show with a single drink after is £500.

Tina is twenty six, the smallest woman on the board, espresso brown, and rows on the tideway at an hour most people would not admit to. The window and the towpath sit inside two hours at £500, with £700 across three when supper follows on Narrow Street in Limehouse.

If the evening starts outdoors, Laura or Nora. If it starts at a table and ends on a towpath, Tina. If it starts at a performance, Sonya. If it starts in a lobby at seven sharp, Angelika, who has never once been late.

Across the ledger, Angelika is also in raven haired and statuesque, Nora in blondes, and Sonya and Tina in petite. By age, only Angelika is in early twenties and only Sonya in thirties. All twenty eight are on the desk.