30/05/2025
🤔 Have you thought about joining a running club but not quite sure how it all works? Have you enjoyed running at parkrun or on your own, and want to improve, enjoy summer months running with others or find some motivation to go out over the winter and meet new people.
Here's some information to answer some popular questions. Feel free to get in touch to find out more.
👍🏼 We are accepting new members. We can offer three week trial period to see how you find the club, but of course you can make that decision sooner. We can give you access to our Spond group, which is an app that allows us to manage the sessions, share information about the location and we can look out for new runners and make sure they’re looked after. Please do approach us if you have any questions or want to know more - we’re happy to help. We’re also a very social club and there are various social events throughout the year.
📆 Witney Road Runners run two sessions a week for runners of all abilities.
🕖 Tuesdays Option 1 - Speed Work in various locations in and around Witney. Meet at the relevant Witney location ready to start for 7pm. Details of each weekly session is shared via Spond a couple of days before for you to sign up to.
🕖 Tuesdays Option 2- Loopback 5km Route in various locations in and around Witney. Ideal for new runners, runners coming back from injury or if you don’t fancy a hard effort at the Speed Session. Meet at the relevant Witney location ready to start for 7pm. The route of each weekly session is shared via Spond a couple of days before for you to sign up to.
🕖 Thursdays - Group Social Runs. We typically offer 3 different distances a week (short 3ish miles, medium 4-6miles, long 7+) across a range of paces. We just ask that you can run 3 miles without stopping as your base, so if you’ve done Couch to 5k, you’ll be fine. Again, routes are circulated via Spond and runners sign up to the group for the distance and pace they wish to run at. It’s good for new members as you’ll know the names of those you’ll be running with in advance, which makes it a bit easier that first time! We also go for a post run social drink.
🏃🏽♂️Runners are free to arrange weekend longer runs or joint runs together, and this is common amongst the club members. 🏃🏾♀️
📄To join: We will ask you to complete an Application Form (available on our website) and return this to Paul Rushby ([email protected]) who is our Membership Secretary.
💷The annual membership subscriptions are as follows for 2025/26: –
£25.00 Single
£48.00 Husband/Wife or Partners
£20.00 Student (in full-time education)
£3.00 Juniors
£70 3 x Family Members
£93 4 x Family Members
If you wish to compete in certain competitions (e.g cross country, some race series), you will also need to be a member of England Athletics and pay an additional £20 per annum per person. You get a £2 discount on entry to most races under EA rules.
Come along, enjoy running with others and see your running improve. 🏃🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♂️🏃🏻♀️
