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What's your favorite thing about run club?

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?

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 …