Tuesday
19:00
Track
Leeds Road track
Structured reps with the coaches: 400s to mile reps depending on the block. Every pace runs the same session, just at your speed.
All paces, grouped
Huddersfield · est. 1994 · 230 of us
Run the hills. Earn the cake.
Road, trail and fell running for every pace in town. Four sessions a week, coaches who know your name and a first month that costs nothing.
The week
Four sessions. Zero scary ones.
Thursday
18:45
Hills
Pavilion, then the cobbles
Huddersfield is not flat, so neither are we. Short steep reps in winter, long drags in summer. The session everyone moans about and nobody skips.
All paces, regroupsSaturday
09:00
parkrun
Greenhead Park & beyond
Unofficial but universal. A vest at every West Yorkshire parkrun most weekends, then a flat white and a debrief of everyone's splits.
Do your own thingSunday
09:00
Long run
Pavilion
Three groups: 8 miles steady, 11 miles with hills, and the fell group who disappear onto the tops with jelly babies and poor judgement.
8, 11 or fell
Sunday, up on the topsWhy Huddersfield
The hills are the membership benefit.
Every route out of town goes up, which is terrible news for about six weeks and then quietly becomes the reason you get faster than your flat-town mates. Sunday's fell group takes it further: moor tracks, trig points and the kind of views that make you forgive the bogs.
Prefer tarmac? The road groups exist, thrive and stay drier.
What it costs
75p a week. Cake not included.
No joining fee, no contract, no kit police. Try us free for a month, then it is less than a coffee a fortnight.
First month
FreeTurn up to any session and run with us for a month before paying a penny. No forms until you are sure.
Club year
£39Every session, every week, coach-led training blocks, club championships and the relay squads. Works out at 75p a week.
England Athletics affiliation
£20Optional add-on: race licence discounts (usually £2 off every road race entry) and eligibility for county championships.
Word on the towpath
What members say.
I came for the couch to 5k and stayed seven years. Nobody has ever asked me how fast I am, only whether I am coming Thursday.Priti Sharma · Member since 2019
Took eleven minutes off my marathon in one winter of Sandra's Tuesday sessions. The track in January is grim and it absolutely works.James Whitwam · Member since 2021
The Sunday fell group is the best thing I have done since moving north. Bogs, hail, cake at the end. Perfect.Eleanor Fox · Member since 2023
Journal
From the pack.
Hill reps, the Viaduct way
Why the Thursday session works, what a rep should feel like, and the one mistake every new member makes on the cobbles.
Your first club night: what actually happens
Where to stand, what to wear, how fast you need to be (spoiler: there is no answer to this) and why nobody gets left behind.
Your first month is free.
Tuesday track or Thursday hills, just turn up ten minutes early and say you are new. We will do the rest.
Run with us