Friendly, Supportive Running at Rushmere Community Runners

Rushmere Community Runners (RCR) is a running club based to the east of the beautiful waterfront town of Ipswich. We are a friendly and sociable running club catering for adult runners of all abilities. We have runners who are interested in everything from Track Sessions to Ultra marathons. Whatever your interests, there’s bound to be someone in the club who shares that interest.

Here at RCR, we offer two main sessions a week, both detailed below, with other runs regularly made available to members. Sessions start at 18:30 and last approximately 1 hour.

On Tuesday’s, we are based from the astro pitches of Ipswich School Sports Centre (The Street, Rushmere Saint Andrew, Ipswich IP5 1DE) where we offer a rotating and varied programme of intervals and fartlek training – the fast bits faster than normal, the slower bits slower than normal. Increase aerobic fitness and social interaction led by UK Athletics qualified Coaches and Leaders in Running Fitness.

On Thursday’s we are utilising varied local start points to allow us to keep routes varied and interesting.  There are different paced groups, each led by a Run Leader safe and all abilities catered for, whether “experienced & confident”, “a beginner and nervous” or anywhere in between! These are a constant pace or “tempo” run, with breaks if/as required by the group.

In addition to these sessions, there are monthly track sessions at Northgate Running Track (on Wednesday’s) and regular weekend runs provided by our Leaders. 

Once you are a  member, you will have access to our booking app which keeps you up to date on events and sessions, allowing you to sign up to any run with the single click of a button!

Joining fee only £25! (This annual fee includes participation in as many of the club sessions as you wish). Affiliation to England Athletics is optional at additional cost.

If you would like to join Rushmere Community Runners or have a trial session, please visit our Contact Us page.