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Run clubs

Nobody gets fit alone.

A run club is the cheapest piece of training equipment there is. This is a directory of them, city by city, checked by hand rather than scraped: 66 clubs so far, every link opened and confirmed before it shipped.

Asia

India

India's run club scene went from coached marathon academies to Instagram-native neighbourhood crews in about three years. Both still exist, mostly in the same parks, usually before 6am.

Europe

United Kingdom

Britain runs on two parallel systems: affiliated athletics clubs with committees and cross-country leagues, and a crew scene the country largely invented. Most cities have both and they rarely mix.

North America

United States

The deepest race calendar anywhere, and club scenes shaped by it. American clubs tend to be organised around competing as a team, even at the back of the field.

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San Francisco · Los Angeles · Chicago · Boston · Seattle · Austin · Denver · Toronto · Vancouver · Dublin · Manchester · Edinburgh · Sydney · Melbourne · Brisbane · Auckland · Singapore · Hong Kong · Tokyo · Seoul · Bangkok · Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Cape Town · Amsterdam · Berlin · Paris · Copenhagen · Stockholm · Lisbon · Barcelona · Madrid · Milan · Munich · Mexico City · São Paulo

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