Group runs only
The lead sets a pace the group can hold, and the sweeper always finishes last.
Nobody runs alone.
Running alone is the part of training nobody plans for: an empty stretch, a bad surface, a phone with no signal, a turned ankle two kilometres from anywhere. A group fixes most of it, and only if somebody is actually counting. So we count. A lead at the front, a sweeper at the back, a headcount when we set off and another when we finish, and a meeting point that never goes anywhere public.
What the club does
The club carries the safety, not you.
A headcount, twice
Everyone checks in at the start and out at the finish, and the lead sees who is still out.
Busy, well-lit routes
Loops with regroup points, never a long empty stretch.
A private meeting point
Only confirmed places see where the run starts.
After, never live
Our channels never show a route or a start time in advance.
Company there and back
Tell the lead, and we pair you with someone heading the same way.
Options, not rules
The club carries the plan. These are the small things some members do on top of it, for their own peace of mind, and none of them is required to run with us.
- Share your live location with someone you trust for the length of your run. WhatsApp and Google Maps both do it.
- Tell someone your route and when you expect to be back.
- Keep your phone where you can reach it quickly.
- Save the numbers below in your phone today.
Help, any time
Save these today.
112Any emergency, from a cellphone. Free, and it works without airtime
10111Police emergency
10177Ambulance and fire
08600 10111Crime Stop: report a crime anonymously
How to help
A run needs about one helper for every ten runners.
- Sweep. The sweeper runs at the back and finishes last, so nobody is behind them. It is the single most useful job at a run and it does not need you to be fast.
- Walk people to their transport. Anyone can ask for company afterwards when they take their place, and somebody has to be going that way.
- Be a buddy. Everyone is paired at the start. If your buddy stops, you stop with them.
- Say something. Harassment, a driver, a stretch of broken pavement: tell the lead, during or after. It goes in the run log and it changes the next route.
Club updates
What changed, and why.
Route changes, what we learned from a run, and anything about a meeting point you need before you set off. Dated and sourced.
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Sources
If anything here is out of date, email tumi.citadel@gmail.com.