Join the Elizabethtown Running Club

We know how tough it can be to get out the door to run sometimes. You have work duties, family responsibilities and any other number of things that get in the way of what you really want to do: run. Or some days you’re just not motivated.

One factor that is always a good motivator is meeting a group of people for a run. If you know someone’s going to be waiting for you, you’re more likely to get out and not let that person down.

For the past several months, the Elizabethtown Running Club, led by E-town Middle School cross country coach Jeff McCloud, has been meeting twice a week for group runs. From now through Sept. 6, Jeff is charging $30 to join the group for its runs at 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 a.m. Saturdays. The club meets in the parking lot at the high school track, does some warmup exercises and drills and heads out on a run. To date, they haven’t run more than 3 miles or 3.5 miles, and the pace is between 11 minutes and 13 minutes per mile so the group can run together.

“I’d love to get a big community of runners together with different skills so groups can run together at different paces,” McCloud said. “It would be great to have a group that wants to run 8-minute miles and another that can run 10-minute miles.”

The group now includes people who have never run before and want to exercise, some who have young children and haven’t exercised since the kids were born and others who run regularly but are looking to improve their times or just like the comradarie. Two elementary age kids have even run with the group and are impressive with their determination.

“We’ve become our own little community already,” McCloud said, “but we always see other runners when we’re out on our runs, so I know there are more people in Elizabethtown who would enjoy running with a  group of people.”

If you’re interested, please join us tomorrow at 6 p.m. to see what it’s all about or email Jeff McCloud at teamccloud@gmail.com.