Soca Run Club
Brooklyn · Brooklyn
The vibe
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.
About
Soca Run Club meets Saturdays at 8am in Brooklyn. Drop-in friendly.
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