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As @Joeboy points out, the title is a play on "The loneliness of the long distance runner", so it's not literally about loneliness.

The word lonely (or derivatives thereof) doesn't actually appear in the text. I only know that because I searched for it though.

The phrase "it makes for really boring dinner conversation" does though.

As well as a whole pile of others about being 'overpaid, underworked and bored' and more gems like that.

Another viewpoint: