The April issue of Runner's World contains an article titled: "The very best two-man, heavy-footed, overscheduled, highly caffeinated running club in all of Brooklyn,'' penned by Robert Sullivan.
The article, which doesn't seem to be online yet, is a wry look at his running club of two. As he points out in the article:
"... to me, a running club is about running. A running club is about getting the other guy out there so that he'll do the same for you. It's about routine. It's about who's buying the coffee, how are the kids? A running club can be the difference between being a sometimes runner and a regular runner, between having to take cholesterol medication and not taking it, between sleeping well and staying up all night worrying about banks and taxes and credit-card statements -- stuff middle-aged people like me find themselves doing when they don't run. And one more thing I can personally attest to: Running clubs, big ones or small ones, can just plain make you run faster."
Amen to that. Both Brooklyn Road Runners and Prospect Park Track Club have weekly Saturday runs in Prospect Park, as well as other runs listed on their Web sites. More comfortable in Manhattan? NYRR has a vast list of clubs on its site - worth checking them out. And maybe you'll run into Sullivan at some point: his club's name is 7 at 7 Club (he and the one other member), as they do a 7 mile run to a local park and back.
He doesn't identify where he lives, though am guessing it's in Brooklyn Heights/Park Slope or thereabouts, based on his Thursday morning run (6 miles at 6 a.m., going over the bridge into Manhattan and back) and his Saturday morning run.
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