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Last week, I was invited to join The Pride Gym Run Club and represent Prerun. New group, new faces, and me at the front giving an introduction about what Prerun is and why I started it.
No big speech, just the honest version. That I wanted runners to have something simple and reliable they could use before training, and that I’ve always felt running is better when there’s some sense of shared experience around it.
We headed out for an 8km run together. Mixed paces, small conversations, people drifting between groups. Nothing forced. Just a steady, social run.
What stuck with me most was actually what happened after. No one rushed off. People stayed, talked, had cake, cooled down properly. It felt relaxed and open, the kind of environment where running fits into life, instead of taking it over.
It reminded me why I built Prerun in the first place. Not just for performance on paper, but for real runners, in real groups, doing their best to get their training in around everything else they’ve got going on.
Even if you run on your own most of the time, you’re still part of that wider group. Same effort. Same decision to show up.
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