Running club explained

A running club, is an eclectic institution specialising in running and oriented towards the sport and recreation of running or track and field. The club may train for and compete in cross country, road running, fell running, track and field some clubs even branch out into multi discipline sports such as triathlon.

Clubs by country

International

Australia

|-!Region!Club|-|Australia|440 Run Club
Unfit Run Club|-|Bondi Beach|Bondi Beach Run Club|-|Coburg, Victoria|Coburg Harriers|-|Coogee, New South Wales|Coogee Run Club|-|North Hobart|Knockoffs Run Club|-|Melbourne|Malvern Harriers Athletic Club|-|Melbourne|Melbourne University Athletics Club|-|Sandy Bay, Tasmania|Sandy Bay Harrier Club|-|Brisbane|SoSo's Run Club|-|Sydney|Sydney University Athletic Club|-|Melbourne|Old Melburnians Athletics Club|-|Brisbane|Thompson Estate and Eastern Suburbs Athletics|}

Greece

|-!Region!Club|-|Athens|Panathinaikos Athletics|}

Portugal

|-!Region!Club|-|Lisbon|Sporting CP|}

Turkey

|-!Region!Club|-|Istanbul|Beşiktaş
Enka SK
Fenerbahçe Athletics
Galatasaray Athletics
Üsküdar Belediyespor|-|İzmir|İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi GSK|}

United Kingdom

247RUNNING - Cheshire

Burnden Road Road Runners - Bolton
Rochdale Harriers|-|Scotland |Linlithgow AC|-|Wales|Swansea Harriers Athletics Club|}

United States

|-!Region!Club|-|National|Road Runners Club of America|-|Northeast|Boston Athletic Association
DC Road Runners Club
New York Road Runners
NYCRUNS
Reebok Boston Track Club|-|Pacific Northwest|Bowerman Track Club
Nike Oregon Project
Oregon Track Club
|-|West|Athletics West
Divine Madness Running Club
Dolphin South End Runners
San Francisco Track and Field Club
Santa Monica Track Club
Skid Row Running Club
Southern California Striders
Tamalpa Runners|-|South|Atlanta Track Club
West Texas Running Club
RunnersWorld Tulsa|}

Running crew

There is a distinction between a running club and crew, the latter emerged in the early 2000s, and they differ from traditional running clubs as the focus is on urban running on city streets.^[1] One of the crews widely considered to be the first is the Bridge Runners formed by Mike Saes in New York City in 2004.^[2] In 2006, Charlie Dark formed Run Dem Crew in London which has since grown to several hundred people who meet every Tuesday,^[3] and has led to Dark receiving a Points of Light award from the UK prime minister Theresa May for his dedication to establishing the alternative running community.^[4]

Notes and References

Web site: 2017-09-09 . Matt . Gross . We Run The Streets . 2023-09-30 . Runner's World . en-US.
Web site: The Genesis of Urban Running Crews. 3 February 2016.
Web site: Charlie Dark's run club is bringing diversity to London's runners. 16 April 2019.
Web site: Run dem Crew. 21 November 2018.