Lifting the heart of Bali’s run club culture with coffee and community

Jaryd Adair of Flowerboy in Indonesia sees the beauty in committing to helping every member of his community on and in the long run

This is Flowerboy

Flowerboy is a run club in Bali, Indonesia. Or is it a creative design studio? Or is it a… coffee shop? Surprise, reader, it’s all three.

As you can already tell, Flowerboy is not your traditional run club. When Canadian artist and skateboarder, Jaryd Adair added a coffee shop to a co-working space near Bali’s most boisterous beaches, his next, less-logical step was to start a run club.

“I’d just started playing around with running. Coming from a skateboarding and adventure cycling background, running was this new challenge where I could obtain the same feeling within a shorter amount of time. Breaking through your own barriers seemed like a fun thing to do.”

Two years of twice-weekly runs later and Flowerboy run club recently hosted over 200 runners at their 200th run. All because of Jaryd’s desire to challenge himself in a new way.

From eager beginnings

Jaryd’s journey into being a serious runner who leads a co…