Run Dem Crew

Leave the headphones and the ego at home

🏃 Tower Hamlets Weekly - Tuesdays Social Beginner-friendly

Charlie Dark started this in 2007 and he'll be the first to tell you it's not a club, it's a family. We split into pace groups so nobody's ever stranded, and headphones are banned - the whole point is that you actually talk to the person next to you.

Find us Tuesday evenings, around 6:30pm, outside the lululemon store at Spitalfields Market. All abilities, grouped by level, with mentoring, workshops and events woven around the running.

As the crew rules go: if you only care about your own PB, run somewhere else. Have a read of the FAQs, then come down and say hi.

Tower Hamlets, London
Weekly - Tuesdays

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Rachel Okafor · 15 June 2026 I was someone's mum from 6am to midnight. A book club gave me back two hours that were mine. After my son was born I disappeared into being his mother. The thing that brought me back wasn't a spa day or a grand gesture. It was a paperback and a room full of women. Arjun Mehta · 13 June 2026 I optimised my whole life in London. Except the part that actually mattered. I moved here for a brilliant engineering job and built a life so efficient I barely had to speak to anyone. It worked perfectly, right up until it didn't. A running club fixed what I couldn't. Margaret Ellison · 5 June 2026 At 68, I thought my world had got smaller. A walking group proved me wrong. After I retired and lost my husband, the house went quiet and the days got long. Then a Saturday walking group gave me back something I thought was gone for good.