Groups
Find your people. Then keep showing up.
Join the community for your neighbourhood, your area, or your university. Or start your own: a club, a pace group, or a few people who keep turning up. Public or private. Post your runs, keep the chat in one place, invite people you already know.
Creating a group is free, forever. Joining, group chat, and posting runs stay free too. That is not a trial, and it is not going behind a paywall.
Community Groups
These are official groups for where you already are.
When you set your neighbourhood on your profile, you can join that neighbourhood community, and the wider area it sits in (for example South East). Add a London university and you can join that campus community too. The groups exist before you get there. You opt in. Nobody has to invite you, and you do not need to know a soul.
You will see them during onboarding, from Groups in the app, and sometimes as a prompt when you open RLS. Join the ones that match. Skip the rest.
They are shared space for people who live near you, study near you, or run the same bit of the city. Not a club you have to apply for.
Running Groups
Anyone can start one. You do not need a constitution, a committee, or an official club name.
Give it a name and a reason to exist. Make it public, so anyone on RLS can tap Join. Or make it private, so people request and you (or another admin) decide. Invite connections you have already made on the app.
You can add a meeting point, a weekly session, photos, and a link to your Instagram or club site if you have one. A Saturday loop, a pace group, or four people who keep showing up. That counts.
What every group gets
This is the same for Community Groups and Running Groups.
Post runs to the group
Create a run and link it to the group. Other members can get a heads-up. You are not posting into the void. You are posting to people who already said this is their group.
Group chat
One thread for the lot of you. Time changes, "I'm at the gate", who is doing the long run on Sunday. Chat comes with the group. It is not a Premium extra.
Invite your connections
Pull in people you have already matched with on RLS. Useful when you are starting a small group, or when a club is moving its members across.
Loneliness, running, and showing up
Over 9 million people in the UK feel lonely some or most of the time.
British Red Cross / Co-op
3.83 million feel lonely often or always. That second number was 3.24 million in 2020.
Campaign to End Loneliness
The gap is not motivation. It is finding someone to go with. A lot of people want company on a run and never ask, because walking up to a stranger feels like too much, and turning up to a club you do not know feels like more. If you are new to London, between clubs, or bored of looping the park on your own, that gap is the whole problem.
RLS is built for that. A neighbourhood group you can join without knowing anyone. A group you start with your own lot. A public run you can actually turn up to. You are not cold-calling a club. You are walking into a space that already exists for people in the same spot as you.
Running will not fix everything. Having somewhere to show up makes the next run easier to start.
Already run a club?
You do not need a new brand. Sign up, create a Running Group, invite your members.
Post the week's runs in one place. Keep the chatter in group chat. People in your area who are looking for a club like yours can find you, join (or request to join), and show up.
Every run you post also surfaces in the public runs feed, where any London runner can see it alongside every other club's. That is reach you do not get from an Instagram post your followers have already scrolled past.
RLS is not replacing your club. It is another door in, for runners who would never have seen your Instagram.
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