Serpentine Running & Triathlon Club

2,000 runners, one lake, and a serious brunch habit

🏃 Westminster Weekly - Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays Beginner-friendly Social Competitive Marathon training

Yes, it's big - around 2,245 of us - but that's the secret: with this many people there's always someone running at exactly your pace, and a proper beginners' course if you've never done this before.

We meet at the Serpentine Bar & Kitchen in Hyde Park on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings, and over in Richmond Park on Sundays. Group runs go anywhere from 7 to 16km, with track at Paddington and lung-busting reps up Primrose Hill if you fancy them. Affiliated to England Athletics since 1981.

Most runs end in coffee or brunch, there's the famous Last Friday 5k in Hyde Park, and you can come along and try us before you part with a penny. Just turn up.

Westminster, London
Weekly - Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays

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Real stories of people who found their people in London.

Marcus Bennett · 9 June 2026 I can't do small talk. At a board game night, I finally didn't have to. Parties, pubs, the dreaded "so what do you do?" - I'd given up on meeting people. Then I sat down at a board game night and the talking just happened sideways. 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. Erin Walsh · 16 June 2026 Socialising never made sense to me. At a board game night, the rules were finally written down. As an autistic adult, the unspoken rules of socialising always left me lost and exhausted. A board game night was the first place the rules were actually explicit - and I could finally relax.