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What's your favorite thing about run club?

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Raziq Rauf
Nov 04, 2024
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What do you like about run clubs?

It’s coming up to the one year anniversary of my run club, the Glendale Runners. It’s a Tuesday morning run club, which isn’t the most traditionally sociable moment in the week, but we’ve built a core group of regulars since Thanksgiving 2023.

Glendale Runners was over five years in the making, but I only started the weekly runs when I found an equally capable coach to share the responsibility with, and it was the right move. When the thing I’m most passionate about is giving new runners a comfortable place to begin their practice, being able to tell them that we have two certified running coaches is great.

But what do YOU like most about run clubs?

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Maybe run club is that third space in your life — a place to socialize, away from home or work. As someone who’s worked from home for the majority of my adult life, it’s certainly that for me.

Maybe run club is a place for performance, where you can measure your progress against a set route that you run once a …

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