Run Clubs in Brooklyn
61 run clubs in Brooklyn.
Black Roses NYC
Black Roses NYC is an invitation-only running collective of about 30-35 people who are genuinely fast — Boston-qualifying pace and up — and equally invested in NYC street culture, music, and style. Founded in 2013 by Knox Robinson and Jessie Zapo, the crew draws nurses, bartenders, DJs, and creatives who show up in all black and train 2-3 times a week with grueling track workouts: kilometer repeats, descending ladders, the kind of sessions that demand you've already done the work. The vibe is intense training balanced with serious social energy — 'work hard, party hard' is genuinely how they operate. Not a place to start running; very much a place to run with people who take it seriously.
Brooklyn Track Club
Brooklyn Track Club is one of the largest and most competitive run clubs in NYC — 700+ members meeting at McCarren Park Track on Tuesday mornings and evenings for coached speed work, plus weekend road runs. The head coach is widely described as 'possibly the nicest person in running,' which sets the tone: elite athletes and first-timers train alongside each other, and track nights have a college-team energy where over 100 people show up to cheer four runners in the middle of a workout. Founded in 2016, they've sent members to USATF Championships and Olympic Trials qualifiers, but membership is sliding-scale (income-based) to keep it accessible. If you want to actually get faster in a structured, coached environment without the pretension, this is the one.
North Brooklyn Runners
NBR runs out of McCarren Park nearly every day of the week — nearly 20 options from the quick Night Owl Monday to the community-favorite Saturday coffee run along the Williamsburg Bridge — so whether you want Party Pace or you're training hard, there's a group for you. The energy is genuinely inclusive: elite athletes and first-timers are treated the same, and the volunteer-led crew donates run proceeds to local nonprofits. Complete four of the club's named weeknight runs (Night Owl, Tigerwolves, Mourning Doves, Hellkatz) and you earn your Crownimal status, celebrated with donuts. It's one of the oldest and largest run clubs in Brooklyn, and it shows — showing up once usually means you keep coming back.
Prospect Park Track Club (PPTC)
PPTC is Brooklyn's largest running club with over 2,000 members, founded in 1970, built around a genuinely inclusive community ethos rather than competitive gatekeeping. Group runs happen every day of the week out of Prospect Park, spanning easy social miles to coached speed workouts and marathon training groups led by Coach John Honerkamp — the Wednesday night run ends at a bar, and the Friday morning run wraps with coffee and pastries. The culture has a distinctly Brooklyn neighborhood feel: annual awards nights, a Valentine's Day Sole Mates note exchange among members, and a summer picnic and relay race. PPTC also functions as a civic institution, having donated over $100,000 to Brooklyn community organizations through its biannual grants program.
Adidas Runners NYC
Adidas Runners NYC is a brand-backed but community-first running collective led by captains including Jessie Zapo (Girls Run NYC founder) and Ameerah Omar (mindset coach and meditation teacher), who bring a performance-meets-personal-growth ethos to every run. The group runs all paces and actively programs for women through Girls Run NYC, with weekday speed sessions and long runs on weekends structured around goal races from 5K to marathon. The NYC chapter is distinct from other cities in its deep roots in the five boroughs — the 2023 'New York Together' apparel pack was co-created with community members and featured runs set in each of the five boroughs — and its ties to NYC's Black running community, including the 'Run By Us' series combining guided runs with a bazaar of Black-owned running and wellness businesses. Post-run culture orbits the adidas flagship stores in SoHo and Midtown, with special events including a NYC Marathon shakeout run through Central Park. Brand partnership is visible, but the captains are credentialed coaches who give runners actual training structure.
ALBION Running
A Brooklyn-based running club listed in the NYCRUNS directory. Social runs through North Brooklyn neighborhoods with a welcoming community atmosphere for all paces. All paces welcome.
Another Run Club (ARC)
A social run club based in North Brooklyn meeting at Domino Square on Wednesdays for a half-hour run, followed by a hangout at a coffee shop or bar. All paces welcome. Post-run at Coffee shop or bar.
Badass Lady Gang
Founded in 2015 by Kelly Roberts after viral NYC Half Marathon selfies, Badass Lady Gang is a women-identifying running community that explicitly rejects diet culture and performance pressure. Free Tuesday nights at 6:30pm, the group runs through neighborhoods at conversational pace — everyone stays within yelling distance, no one gets left behind. The ethos is joy over speed: success is measured by confidence gained, not miles logged or pounds lost. Post-run coffee hangouts are a genuine part of the ritual, not an afterthought.
BedStuy Flyers
Founded in March 2017 by Tara Mardigan, a nutritionist and RRCA-certified running coach who spent a decade as the Boston Red Sox team nutritionist, BedStuy Flyers grew out of a personal habit she built after a 2016 job loss — heading to the Boys and Girls High School track in Bed-Stuy weekly to keep a routine. Inspired by Nike Run Club speed workouts and the November Project free fitness movement, she started inviting friends to 'Track Tuesdays,' and a community took root. The club runs two formats each week: structured interval workouts on Tuesday mornings at the Boys and Girls High School track, and 'Pizza Coven' Thursday morning neighborhood runs — 4-5 miles visiting a different Bed-Stuy park or playground each week, with a brief local history lesson and group photo. Co-led by RRCA-certified coach Nick Collins (who also co-founded Crown Heights Running Club), the club is completely free, NYRR-affiliated, and draws a diverse cross-section of Brooklyn residents from walkers to multi-marathon finishers.
BK Heights Run Club
BK Heights Run Club is a high-volume, neighborhood-rooted club that runs 12 sessions per week — sunrises and sunsets — making it genuinely woven into daily Brooklyn Heights life rather than a once-a-week social event. Sunday mornings at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge draw 200+ runners across 10 pace-led groups ranging from 8:30/mi race pace down to a dedicated 'Hot Girl Walk' pace, so no one gets left behind. The club frames running explicitly as a lifestyle and creative community, not a fitness product — their stated mission is making athletic culture 'radically accessible' and building something that 'outlasts the trend cycle.' Post-run culture is built into a WhatsApp group and Strava club rather than a single bar night, keeping the community active all week.
BK Run Project
An inclusive Brooklyn-based running club offering coach-led group training at Prospect Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays for all abilities. All paces welcome.
Black Men Run
Black Men Run is a mission-driven brotherhood built around the specific health crisis facing Black men — heart disease, obesity, and diabetes — using running as the vehicle for accountability and community care. Runs open with warm-ups and motivational check-ins and close with a celebratory finish, creating a ritual that is as much about mental and spiritual health as physical fitness. The NYC chapter meets at Prospect Park's Grand Army Plaza entrance on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays and is explicitly open to all fitness levels and backgrounds, while centering Black men's wellness. Members describe it as 'probably the only space where I can be 100% me in all ways possible' — a sanctuary, not just a sweat session.
Brooklyn Kids Run
Kids ages 6-14, USATF registered team, coached by Maggie Deschamps (RRCA certified, 35+ years competitive running), small classes for individual attention, meet at 9th St entrance to Prospect Park by the monument in Park Slope, $15/class or $135 for 10-pack
Brooklyn Queer Run Club
Brooklyn Queer Run Club is a deliberately no-barriers Saturday morning run crew in Brooklyn for LGBTQ+ runners of every pace and experience level — no signup, no experience required, just show up. What sets it apart from other queer run clubs is the intentional post-run hang: every week wraps with coffee, pastries, and local food, and the club periodically hosts potluck picnics where members bring homemade food and games, building social fabric that extends well beyond the miles. Runs rotate between Prospect Park and other Brooklyn locations, keeping the community embedded in the borough rather than migrating to Manhattan. The club explicitly positions itself as unequivocally queer and community-led, rejecting hierarchical or performance-driven structure in favor of belonging first.
Brooklyn Tri Club
A triathlon club that welcomes members of all backgrounds from beginners to elites, offering group workouts, social events, and educational clinics. All paces welcome.
Commonwealth Running Club
A run club meeting twice weekly with partnerships at Commonwealth Bar and Pasta Louise, offering discounted drinks and a welcoming vibe for folks of all paces and faces. All paces welcome. Post-run at Commonwealth Bar.
Crown Heights Run Club
Crown Heights Running Club is a free, volunteer-led community that runs five days a week out of Prospect Park and the surrounding neighborhood, with pace groups from 8:30 to 12:00 min/mile and a dedicated leader who always stays with the back of the pack so no one gets left behind. Long runs go all over the city — 7 to 15 miles across boroughs — and the club also volunteers with the Prospect Park Alliance, partners with Girls On The Run, and delivers meals together. Post-run bagel and beer is the stated tradition, and the annual Brooklyn Marathon celebration at Spumoni Gardens has become something of an institution. Tight Slack community, active racing crew, no fees.
Define New York Run Club
Define New York Run Club is a Saturday morning long run community rooted in social justice and radical inclusion, founded by Coffey (ThatCoffeyBoy), a filmmaker and Nike pacer from rural North Carolina who built the club as a vehicle for community organizing after the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The ethos is explicitly anti-elitist: no pace requirement, no fee, no typical member profile — 'I run, you run, we run together, no one gets left behind.' Runs are adventure-oriented, threading through NYC streets to find hidden gems and street art, and the club has organized memorial runs, shown up at races, and maintained a cheer zone at the 2025 NYC Marathon — it functions as much as a civic community as a running club.
Fort Greene Runners
Fort Greene Runners is a neighborhood-rooted community run club operating out of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with two weekly runs that anchor the local running scene. Tuesday evenings draw the social crowd to the corner of DeKalb Ave and Cumberland St, while Friday mornings start at Fulton St and Hanson Pl for an early-week shakeout. The club keeps things genuinely accessible — runners choose between shorter and longer route options each session (3 or 5 miles on Tuesdays, 3 or 6 miles on Fridays), so no one gets dropped and no pace is wrong. The vibe is low-key and Brooklyn-neighborly: no formal membership, no registration, just show up and message them on Instagram to get into the group chat.
GAY BAR FUN RUN
A twice-monthly run club that starts and ends at rotating gay bars in Brooklyn, offering 3 or 5 mile options at an easy pace followed by bar hangouts. Beginner welcome. Post-run at Gay bar.
Girls Run NYC
Women-focused run community in NYC. Saturday morning group runs in Central Park. All paces welcome, strong social culture.
Glue Factory Track Club
A club for those who love to run despite running not always loving them back, with a philosophy of not pushing the pace on easy runs — designed for the injured, tired, and sore. All paces welcome.
GoldFinger Track Club
Goldfinger Track Club is a community-first crew founded in March 2016 in East Williamsburg/Bed-Stuy by Jerry Francois, built around the motto 'Diverse, But Never Divided' and the open invitation of 'All Paces, All Faces.' The club uses running as an explicit platform for racial justice and social change, organizing runs that spotlight Black-owned Brooklyn businesses and supporting underserved community members alongside competitive training. With nearly 500 Strava members and events that draw 500+ participants, GFTC operates at real scale without sacrificing its neighborhood-roots energy. Membership unlocks Nike discounts, NYRR race bibs, and club singlets, but the cultural through-line is belonging first, performance second.
Greenpoint Runners
Greenpoint Runners (GPR) is the official run club of Bandit Running, launched in January 2023 out of Bandit's brick-and-mortar store at 37 Noble Street in Greenpoint. Founded by Bandit co-founders Tim West, Nick West, and Ardith Singh, the club was deliberately named after the neighborhood rather than the brand — the intent was to bring together neighbors, not just customers. More than 50 people showed up for the inaugural Saturday morning run, and the club has drawn a loyal, neighborhood-rooted crowd ever since. Post-run, Bandit provides coffee and bagels at the store, making the hangout as much a part of the ritual as the miles. GPR runs out of a creative, foodie-forward corner of Brooklyn — Greenpoint's gallery scene, natural wine bars, and destination coffee shops (Rhythm Zero, Bar Americano) define the crowd that shows up: design-adjacent, community-minded, and genuinely into running rather than just the aesthetic of it.
Harbat Running Lab
Harbat describes itself as an offline social network with running as its core foundation. Community-first, all levels welcome. Meets at Think Coffee, 10 Devoe St, Williamsburg. Also has Paris operations. Email team@harbat.co to join.
Latin Runners Club
A multi-borough running club serving Latin communities across Brooklyn, Queens, and Westchester. Listed in the NYCRUNS directory with weekend group runs and a strong cultural community identity. All paces welcome.
Lean Strong Fast
Performance-focused run club meeting at Grand Army Plaza for Saturday morning runs into Prospect Park. Training-oriented community.
Life of the Party Runners
Meets Friday/Saturday at 7pm.
MMM Atletico
A Brooklyn-based athletic and running club listed in the NYCRUNS directory with a Latin-influenced athletic culture and welcoming atmosphere for all runners and endurance athletes. All paces welcome.
New Mom Run Club
Founded by journalist Nadia Neophytou in March 2023, New Mom Run Club is built around the uncomfortable truth of postpartum running — the physical setbacks, the identity shifts, the slow and nonlinear return. Runs are intentionally short (about 2 miles) and chat-first, designed for moms who are still figuring out what their bodies can do again. The community gathers around a Substack newsletter featuring raw interviews with postpartum runners, and the in-person runs feel like a moving support group as much as a workout. The tagline 'new = state of mind' signals it's for any mom at any stage, not just women who just gave birth.
Nightcrawlers Running Club
A Thursday evening run club meeting at Grand Army Plaza at 8pm, welcoming all experience levels. All paces welcome.
No Bad Days Run Club
No Bad Days gathers every Thursday evening at Other Half Brewing in Williamsburg for a 3.5-mile run at roughly 9:45 min/mile that finishes with a sprint to the top of the Williamsburg Bridge — then $5 beers back at the brewery. The vibe is 'social with a sweat': easygoing enough that the post-run hangout feels as important as the miles, without being so casual that you're not actually working. Free, no membership, just show up.
NYC Sprint Collective
NYC Sprint Collective is the only open sprint-specific training community in New York City, filling a gap for 100m/200m/400m athletes who find traditional distance-focused run clubs useless for their goals. Founded in 2022 by software engineer Conor Buckley after he couldn't find sprint training partners, the club grew out of 'Fast Fridays' sessions and now hosts structured weekly track workouts at McCarren Track with warm-ups, drills, and sprint sets. The energy is high-burst and competitive rather than social-jog, and the club has hosted professional sprinter workshops and organized community time trials. They hosted their first street sprint race, 'Fast & Forte,' on Berry Street in Brooklyn featuring a 100m relay.
Ocean Parkway Runners
A South Brooklyn organization focused on promoting an active lifestyle through running and charitable community support. All paces welcome.
Point B Movement
A Brooklyn-based movement and running community listed in the NYCRUNS directory. Combines running with broader fitness and community wellness goals, welcoming runners of all backgrounds. All paces welcome.
Queer Runnings BK
A Brooklyn-based running club for queer women, trans, and non-binary folks. Open to all paces and levels with a strong community focus. Check their Instagram for current schedule and location updates. All paces welcome.
Queers Run Brooklyn
Queers Run Brooklyn is a community-led LGBTQ+ run club explicitly built to be accessible to all paces and experience levels — the priority is showing up queer together, not racing. The club meets three days a week and anchors its weekly long run at the steps of Brooklyn Central Library, one of the more committed schedules of any identity-based run club in the borough. It carries NYRR affiliation, giving it race-day credibility and infrastructure support, while staying deliberately grassroots and Discord-first for day-to-day communication. The club's Discord and Strava presence signal an engaged, habitual membership rather than a casual drop-in crowd.
Rabbit Movers Running Club
A Brooklyn-based running club listed in the NYCRUNS directory with a focus on consistent movement and progressive training for runners looking to improve their fitness. Intermediate welcome.
Rage & Release
A holistic lifestyle brand with an inclusive running community exploring Brooklyn, welcoming beginners and everyone in between. Beginner welcome.
Recess Run Club
Recess Run Club is a Brooklyn-based community founded by Sergio Santos with one membership requirement: 'have a body and good vibes.' They run three times a week — Monday evenings at the track, Wednesday mornings, and Saturday flagship runs out of Prospect Park — with all paces genuinely welcome. The vibe is high-energy and inclusive without being performative about it; 297 members who show up because they actually want to, not because it's the trendy thing to do. Free.
Reckless Run Crew
An NYC run crew that combines road running and fun, welcoming all paces. All paces welcome.
Resident Runners
NYC run club meeting Wednesday evenings and Saturdays. Community-focused runs around Manhattan.
Ridge Runners NYC
Established in 2014 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. No membership requirements — just show up. Runs 5 times per week along Shore Road and Bay Ridge streets with a welcoming, no-pressure culture. Schedule post All paces welcome.
Running Sistahs Social Club
Running Sistahs Social Club is a Black women's run club based in NYC, founded in 2023 to create a dedicated space for Black women to run, connect, and build community together. The club formed under the LLC name Running Sistahs Social Club (confirmed via 2023 LLC filing) and operates primarily through Instagram, where the community coordinates runs and shares its identity. With 454 followers across 38 posts, the club is grassroots in scale but intentional in mission — providing a safe, welcoming environment where Black women runners find their people rather than adapting to spaces that weren't built with them in mind.
Running Souls Run Club
Small, friendly group. Free to join, coached workouts led by RRCA-certified founder Howard Abrams. Tues/Thurs speed/endurance, Sat social run with coffee. Accessible (10:30/mi min pace). Meets at Prospect Park West and 15th St entrance across from movie theater.
Scaries Run Club
A Brooklyn-based social run club listed in the NYCRUNS directory. Sunday morning runs through North Brooklyn with a fun, low-pressure vibe welcoming runners of all paces. All paces welcome.
Shore Road Striders
A Bay Ridge running club for those interested in running as a sport, drawing members from Bay Ridge and surrounding Brooklyn communities. Runs for fun and friendship along the scenic Shore Road waterf All paces welcome.
Slow AF Run Club
Slow AF Run Club was built on a simple but radical premise: you don't have to be fast to be a runner. Founded by Martinus Evans — a 300+ lb marathoner who rejected his doctor's weight-loss ultimatum and completed 9 marathons instead — the club is explicitly anti-diet-culture and anti-shame, welcoming back-of-the-pack runners, walkers, and every body type. The NYC-area chapter meets Sunday mornings at Exchange Place in Jersey City for a 2-mile fun run, plus hikes, yoga, and brunches throughout the week where running is optional. Evans' book (Penguin Random House, 2023) and Runner's World cover say everything about the legitimacy of what he's built.
Soca Run Club
Soca Run Club is the weekly run arm of Soca Run Nation, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit founded by Troy D. Johnson after he completed the 2017 Rock & Roll New Orleans half marathon and noticed Black runners made up less than 5% of mainstream running clubs. The club explicitly centers Afro-Caribbean and Black runners who felt shut out of existing run culture, with runs designed to end at local Black-owned businesses rather than sponsored beer gardens or brand activations. The vibe draws directly from Caribbean carnival energy: soca music, community warmth, and celebration of fitness as culture rather than performance. Johnson has said 'a lot of the existing events were not geared to appeal to our culture,' and the club is the living answer to that gap. IRS ruling year for Soca Run Nation Inc. is 2021, placing the nonprofit formalization in that year, though the club and festival activity traces to 2020 pandemic-era neighborhood runs.
South Brooklyn Running Club
South Brooklyn Running Club is a free, unpretentious community based in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook that runs everything from 6:45am Tuesday track sessions at Red Hook Park to leisurely Friday coffee runs that end at a different neighborhood shop each week. Pace ranges from 5:45 min/mile speedwork to beginner-friendly 10:30 min/mile loops, with frequent regroups built in — as their FAQ puts it, 'just come on out' and wear shorts and sneakers. Post-run drinks at Vekslers (where a draft is ) are as much a tradition as the miles, and the club actively centers BIPOC runners with anti-racism training and community partnerships baked into their guidelines. No cost, no gatekeeping.
South Central Brooklyn Runners
Diverse running group for all types of runners, walkers, and endurance athletes in South Central Brooklyn and beyond.
Spartan Sundays Run Club
An all-inclusive run club with over 13 years of history, meeting primarily on Sunday mornings with multiple weekly runs and organized Spartan mud races several times yearly. All paces welcome.
Sub 3 Dreamers
Sub-3-hour marathon focus club. Tagline: 'Chasing the dream long past our primes.' Members who break 3 hours are removed from the crew. Small, identity-driven group built around a single performance goal.
Sunset Park Runners
A fun and casual group in Sunset Park meeting twice weekly, welcoming all paces and abilities, stroller-friendly and pet-friendly. All paces welcome.
Team We Run Kings
Brooklyn-based performance running team built for Black and Brown runners. Founded 2016 by Joseph Shayne and Jennifer Blalock as #NoSleepTilBKHalf, launched as a business 2017. Trains 5K through marathon. Multi-location model: Prospect Park (Tuesdays, warmer months), The Armory in Washington Heights (Tuesdays, winter), The Brooklyn Circus in Boerum Hill (Saturdays year-round). Ability-tiered sessions (Fast, Faster, Fastest) plus post-run strength and conditioning. Drop-in available ($25/session) or membership with enrollment windows. Partners include PUMA, Strava, Under Armour, The Brooklyn Circus, Bombas, Reebok. Coach Joe Shayne is a Boston Marathon qualifier and PUMA ambassador. Over 1,000 members trained since founding.
TeamWRK
A performance-based training group with nearly 10 years of history offering 1-on-1 coaching and group training for competitive racers and running enthusiasts specializing in long-distance running. Competitive welcome.
TGIF Run Crew
A fully community-led run crew meeting Friday mornings rain or shine, with a post-run hangout at a coffee shop or bakery. All paces welcome. Post-run at Coffee shop or bakery.
The Runners Club Union
Self-described as a casual, friends-first running group in Brooklyn. Listed in the NYCRUNS club directory (club ID 189) with a minimal profile. No public social media presence found across Instagram, Strava, Heylo, Meetup, or Facebook. Extremely low digital footprint suggests a small, informal, word-of-mouth group rather than a community-facing run club.
The Self-Love Club Runners
A Brooklyn-based running club centered on body positivity, self-love, and mental wellness. Listed in the NYCRUNS directory and welcoming to runners of all paces who want to prioritize wellbeing and co All paces welcome.
Williamsburg Track Club
Williamsburg Track Club is a coach-led, technically rigorous running group founded in 2009 by USATF Level 3 / IAAF Level 5 coach Todd Weisse, who also serves as an assistant coach at Columbia University Track and Field. The club runs two structured workouts per week — VO2 max track sessions at McCarren Park on Tuesdays and lactate-threshold road work in Central Park on Thursdays — with a philosophy centered on form, foot strike, and long-term athletic development over quick fitness gains. The group skews toward serious competitive runners but welcomes all levels who want real coaching infrastructure. At roughly 20 members, it operates with small-group intimacy and a no-nonsense, performance-first culture.
Women Make Moves
An all-women crew that holds space for women of all paces, shades, and sizes, covering 3-4.5 miles alternating with strength workouts. All paces welcome.