--- title: "About Stride Run Club" description: "Stride Run Club is Bengaluru's running community. 5,754 runners in 2025 across 97 community runs, and 63% of them were first-timers. Who founded it, how a run works, and who organises them." canonical: https://www.strideclub.in/about last-updated: 2026-10-21 --- # About Stride Run Club > A running community in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Tagline: "Move as one." All fitness levels welcome. ## What Stride is Stride Run Club began as three people meeting to run. It now puts on two to three runs a week, every week: beginner-friendly 5Ks, hill repeats, interval sessions, long runs, and curated one-offs. At peak, more than 300 people have turned up for a single Stride run. ## By the numbers (2025) - **5,754** unique runners ran with Stride - **63%** of them were running with a club for the first time - **97** community runs held, at least one every week of the year - **300+** runners at a single event, at peak - **52,000+** followers on Instagram ## What "Move as one" means Nobody gets dropped. Stride is deliberately not a race team. Most people who run with us have never run with a club before, and every run is built around that. You can walk it, jog it or chase a personal best, and all three finish in the same place. The run is also only half of it. A Stride event is a run and a social mixer, with guided warm-ups from certified trainers, icebreakers, and coffee or breakfast afterwards. ## How a Stride run works 1. **Find a run.** Every run, race and meetup is listed at [https://www.strideclub.in/events](https://www.strideclub.in/events) with date, start point, distance and price. 2. **Register.** Most community runs are free; paid experiences show their fee up front. See [https://www.strideclub.in/pricing](https://www.strideclub.in/pricing). 3. **Check in on the day.** Every member has a four-character Stride Tag. Read it out at the start line and the run is counted. 4. **Move up a tier.** Runs attended drive 5 milestone tiers, Duckling through Stride Legend. None of them can be bought. See [https://www.strideclub.in/milestones](https://www.strideclub.in/milestones). ## Who runs the club Sidharth Yadav founded Stride Run Club. What started as his weekend run is now organised by a team of more than ten leads, the people who plot the routes and set the pace. 4 of them are profiled with names, roles and social profiles: [https://www.strideclub.in/team](https://www.strideclub.in/team). ## Where Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Every Stride run happens in the city. ## Contact and elsewhere - Email: striderunclubbengaluru@gmail.com - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stride_runclub_bengaluru/ - Strava: https://www.strava.com/clubs/striderunclubbengaluru - Source code (this site is open source): https://github.com/striderunbengaluru-tech/stride-web-frontend