Your Friendly Runners

The name's a promise - four runs a week

🏃 Hackney 2–3 times per week Social Beginner-friendly Trail Track

YFR does exactly what it says on the tin. We're out four times a week whatever the sky's doing, and a weekend run can pull well over 100 of us together.

Most runs start and finish at Knees Up café in Hackney - the monthly schedule lives on our Instagram. Take your pick of trail, track or a 5–10K road route, and there's company waiting at every pace. Weekend runs wrap up with smoothies and pastries, which is honestly half the appeal.

We also put on Crews to the Coast, a relay all the way from London to Margate. Check the schedule on Instagram or Strava and come say hello.

Hackney, London
2–3 times per week

From the blog

Real stories of people who found their people in London.

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. Bridget Lawson · 18 June 2026 I look after my mum full time. A Saturday walk is the one hour that's mine. Caring for someone you love can quietly erase you. This is about the morning I started walking with a group of strangers, and how one hour a week gave me back to myself. 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.