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title: "About Stride Run Club"
description: "Stride Run Club is Bengaluru's running community — 5,754 runners in 2025, 97 community runs, 63% of them first-timers. How it started, how a run works, and what membership means."
canonical: https://www.strideclub.in/about
last-updated: 2026-08-27
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# 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 and grew into a club that 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 the 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: 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

Stride is organised by 8 Lead Striders — the people who plot the routes and set the pace. Names, roles and 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