# Club Chats on Run This: A Chat for Every Group > Run This club chats give your club Announcements, open chats and private chats, with polls, voice notes, @mentions and search, on the web and in the app. - **Author:** Kelby Dover, Founder, Run This - **Published:** 2026-11-13 - **Category:** Run This News - **Topics:** run club, club chat, group chat, running club app, club announcements, run club leaders, Run This app - **Reading time:** 5 min - **Article:** https://runthis.run/articles/club-chats-on-run-this-a-chat-for-every-group Your club runs on a group text. The Saturday route gets buried under forty thumbs-up. The trail crew and the marathon group talk over each other. Half the club muted it in March. Club chats on Run This fix that. Every club gets its own chats, in the same place as its runs, its members and its races. ### What's new - **A chat for every group.** Announcements for everyone, open chats members can join, and private chats for your leaders. - **Polls.** Settle the Saturday route in a minute. - **Voice notes, photos, files and videos.** Send the GPX route, not a screenshot of it. - **@mentions and Mentions only.** People hear about what's meant for them. - **Search.** Every message, all the way back. - **Pins, edits and effects.** Pin the plan, fix the typo, send it with confetti. - **Website and app.** The same chats on runthis.run and in the Run This app. ### A chat for every group Every club gets three kinds of chat. **Announcements** has every member in it. You and the hosts you pick post there, and everyone else can react. **Open chats** are for the Saturday crew, the marathon group and the coffee-after people: members look in and tap Join. **Private chats** are only for the people you add, like run leaders, pacers and volunteers. Other members don't know they exist. A club can have up to 25 chats. Give each one a name and a picture: an emoji, an icon or a photo. One club, five chats. Announcements, three open chats, and a private one for run leaders. ### Announcements people can find Post the Track Night change once, and the whole club has it. Pin it so it sits at the top. Start a poll in Announcements and every member can vote. Running a store with several locations? Post one announcement to the sub-clubs you pick. Someone in three of them gets one alert, not three. Announcements: you post, everyone reacts, the important one stays pinned. ### Settle the route in one poll Ask a question and add 2 to 10 answers. Let people pick one, or more than one. Votes come in as people tap, and anyone can tap See votes to know who's in for what. Which route on Saturday? Nine votes later, it's the bridge. ### Send the route, not a screenshot of it Voice notes up to 3 minutes. Up to six photos in one message. Files up to 10 MB, including GPX, TCX, FIT and KML routes, PDFs and spreadsheets. Paste a link and it gets a preview. Club owners, admins and moderators can post a video up to a minute long. The course walkthrough, the stretch routine, the shirt reveal. A voice note, the route file and the post-run photo, all in the chat. ### Only hear what's meant for you Big clubs are busy. So each person picks how each chat reaches them: **Every message**, **Mentions only**, or **Unread dot only**. In clubs with more than 50 members, open chats start on Mentions only. Need someone? Type @ and their name. They hear about it even if they haven't joined that open chat yet. Club chats also have their own switch in notification settings, apart from direct messages. Pick how each chat reaches you. ### Find that one message "What time is packet pickup?" Search knows. The search bar at the top of your messages looks through every club chat, direct message and group chat, all the way back. Polls, files and shared races count too. Tap a result and you land right on the message. Search every chat, back to the first message. ### The little things - Reply to a message to keep the thread straight. - React with emoji, or double-tap to send a heart. - Edit a message for 15 minutes after you send it. - Pin up to 3 messages in a chat. - See who's typing, and in private chats of 25 or fewer, who's seen it. - Share a race, a club or a post right into a chat. - Hold the send button and send it with confetti, balloons or a finish line. Hold send for confetti, balloons or a finish line. ### On your computer too Every club chat is on runthis.run, with your conversations on the left and the open chat on the right. Start on your laptop, finish on your phone. The same chats on the website. ### Set it up in five minutes - Open your club and tap **Chats**. - Tap **New chat**. Pick open or private, give it a name and a picture. - For a private chat, pick the people. - Post a welcome in Announcements and pin it. - Share your club's invite link. Everyone who joins is in Announcements. No club yet? [Start one](https://runthis.run/clubs/new). It's free. ### Get the free app Run This is free on iPhone and Android. Sign in with the same account and your club's chats are already there. Update to the newest version for voice notes, polls, pins and search. Free on iPhone and Android.[Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6743798022) · [Get it on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runthis.runthis) ### Your first week - Make an open chat for each weekly run. - Make a private chat for your run leaders. - Pin the weekly schedule in Announcements. - Ask your first question with a poll. ### Ready? Open your club and tap Chats. New to clubs on Run This? See everything a club gets at [runthis.run/for-clubs](https://runthis.run/for-clubs). The full how-to is in [Chats & messaging](https://runthis.run/help/athletes/chats) and [Clubs](https://runthis.run/help/athletes/clubs). Something you wish it did? [Tell me](https://runthis.run/contact). I read every one. --- Source: [https://runthis.run/articles/club-chats-on-run-this-a-chat-for-every-group](https://runthis.run/articles/club-chats-on-run-this-a-chat-for-every-group) — data from Run This (runthis.run).