Clubs

Finding clubs

Open My groups from the sidebar to see the clubs you belong to, then tap Find more clubs. The Clubs page shows your clubs up top and a Discover grid of public clubs below. Tap any club to open its page.

Joining a club

On a public club's page, tap Join club. You become a member instantly and the club's posts start showing up for you. You can leave anytime with the Leave button. Your spot in the roster is removed, and you can rejoin whenever you like.

A private club is visible to everyone, but joining takes approval. Tap Request to join and an admin reviews it. You'll see Request pending until they approve you (you can withdraw the request anytime). Once approved, you're a full member.

What's on a club page

• The top bar: the club's logo and name, its pages, and a Join button in the club's color. It stays at the top while you scroll, on every page of the club.
• The banner: the club's banner photo, logo, name, headline, type (running, trail, triathlon…) and location, shown in the club's own color. A strip under it can show the member count, the next club run, how many events are on the calendar, and when the club meets.
• The club's own sections: whatever the club has added to its page, in the order it chose. That can be writing, photos, a video, a weekly schedule, questions and answers, links, sponsors, a countdown, its next runs and its members. A club can also have a few extra pages, listed in the top bar.
• Members-only sections: a club can keep a section for its members. If you are not a member you see a locked card with its heading, and joining the club opens it.
• Posts: updates from the club. Any member can post, like, and comment, and like or reply to individual comments too (some clubs have admins approve posts first, and some let only admins post, see below).
• Club Events: upcoming events the club hosts or has pinned. Tap Open Event to go to any of them.
• Events Members Will Be At: upcoming races the club's members have registered for, bookmarked, or marked they'll be at. A great way to find runs to do together. (It shows how many members are going, never who.)
• Members: the roster, with admins listed first. Tap a member to open their profile. On the website, type a name in the search box to find anyone in a big club.

Paid memberships and the club shop

Paid memberships. Some clubs charge dues. Their club page shows the levels and prices. Tap Join, pick a level, and pay by card. The price shown is what the club receives, and the processing fee is added before you pay. Tick Renew automatically if you want your card charged when your term ends, so your membership does not lapse. We email you before every charge, and you can turn this off any time on your membership page. When your dues run out you have 14 days to pay before your paid membership lapses. You stay in the club either way.

The club shop. Some clubs sell shirts, hats and other items. Open Shop on the club's page, choose a size, and add it to your cart. You can buy without an account. If you are a member, sign in first to get member prices and members-only items. Orders are picked up in person from the club: your receipt has a pickup code and the club's pickup instructions. For a refund or a question about an order, contact the club.

Coupon codes. If a club gave you a code, tap Have a coupon code? at checkout, type it, and tap Apply. The amount it takes off shows before you pay. On a membership, a code comes off that payment only: a renewal is the full price.

Memberships and shop orders work on the website and in the Run This app. In the app you pay by card or with Apple Pay or Google Pay.

Club posts

Posts on the Posts tab show newest first. The one post an admin pinned stays at the top with a Pinned label. Posts look and work the same on the website and in the Run This app.

To post, members tap Post to the club at the top of the Posts tab. It opens the same composer as The Feed: up to 10 photos, a poll or a race card, link previews, @mentions, a Question button, a draft saved on your device, and 15 minutes to edit your post afterwards. See Posting to the feed for the details.

• Like: tap the heart, or double-tap the post or one of its photos. Tap the heart again to take your like back.
• Polls: members tap a choice to vote, then see the results. You can change or undo your vote until it closes. Votes are private: everyone sees the counts, nobody (not even the admins) sees who voted. The person who asked or a club admin can pick End poll now in the ••• menu. See Polls.
• See who liked it: tap the number next to the heart, on a post or on a comment.
• Comments: tap a post (or its comment count, or its time) to open it with its comments, oldest first. Tap Reply under a comment to answer it. Replies sit under the comment they answer, and View more replies shows the rest when there are several.
• More options: tap the ••• button on a post or comment, or press and hold it on a phone. From there you can copy a link to the post, hide it, report it, or block its author. On your own post or comment you can delete it.
• Turn off comments: on your own post, the ••• menu has Turn off comments. Comments already there stay; nobody can add new ones, and the post shows Comments are turned off. Pick Turn comments back on to open them again. Club admins can do this on any post in the club.
• Hide this post removes it for you only. It stays hidden everywhere you sign in, on the website and in the app.

Club events & pinning

A club's Club Events tab gathers three kinds of events: the club's own club runs/events (below), races the club hosts (a director connected the event to the club. It shows a “Hosted by” badge on the event page), and races a club admin has pinned.

If you're an admin of a club, you can pin any event to it: open the event page, tap Save, and under Pin to a club toggle the clubs you want it to appear under. Pin to as many of your clubs as you like; unpin the same way.

A public club's pin also puts its logo in the race's Pinned by section. The race's director can hide that section, or remove your club's pin. After a removal, your club can't pin that race again unless the director restores it.

Club runs & RSVP events

A club run/event is the casual kind, a weekly group run, a monthly social. There's no registration, no waivers, and no payments: you just tap I'll be there on a date (it flips to I won't be there if your plans change), see who else is going, and the date lands on your calendar. Your past RSVPs stay on your calendar forever, a running history of every time you showed up.

• Recurring or one-time. Club events can repeat weekly, every other week, monthly on a date, or on patterns like “1st Tuesday of every month.” The next few dates are always open for RSVP.
• Admins create and manage them. The New Club Event button on the club page asks whether you want a casual Club Run/Event or a full Official Event (registration, payments, the Director Dashboard). Any current club admin can edit any of the club's events, and can move or cancel a single date (holiday week? move Thursday's run to Wednesday) without touching the rest of the series. Everyone who RSVP'd is notified.
• You can do all of this from the app. Open your club, tap Events, then New club event. Both kinds work from the app, including an official race: pick Official race and it is attached to your club as soon as it is created.
• Visibility follows the club. A public club's events are public (admins can flip individual events to members-only); a private club's events are always members-only. If you RSVP to a club you haven't joined, you'll get a friendly invite to join. It's optional.
• Discussion lives on the club's Posts feed: no separate comment wall per event.
• Notifications are per club. Tap the bell on a club page to choose what pings you from that club: all posts, admin announcements only, or none, and whether new club events notify you. Changes to a date you RSVP'd to always reach you.

Starting your own club

Tap Start a club from the Clubs page. Give it a name (which becomes its web address. Pick carefully, it can't change later), a type, a location, and an optional description and website. You become the club's owner. After creating it you'll land on the edit screen, where you can add a cover banner and logo.

Admins & posting

As the owner you can promote members to admin. Owners and admins edit the club's details, upload its banner and logo, approve join requests for a private club (on the Members tab), and moderate posts. Every member can post, like, and comment.

Pinning and removing posts. On any post, an owner or admin can open the ••• menu and choose Pin to the top of the wall (and later Unpin from the wall). A club has one pinned post at a time: pinning a new one unpins the old one. Admins can also remove a member's post from the club (the member gets a notification saying an admin removed it), turn off comments on any post, and delete any comment.

Only admins can post. On the Edit Club tab, turn on Only admins can post to make the wall an announcement board. Members see Only admins post on this wall instead of the post box, and can still like and comment. Turn it off to let every member post again.

Post approval. By default members' posts go up immediately. On the Edit Club tab you can turn on Require admin approval for member posts, then a member's post waits in the Post approvals tab until an admin approves or declines it (admins' own posts always publish instantly). Either way the member gets a notification. Once approved, it goes out exactly like any other post, from the member who wrote it: it shows on The Feed, members are notified according to their club notification settings, and anyone tagged in it gets a mention notification. While it waits, nobody else is notified. A declined post is deleted.

Owners and admins also get a Member Insights dashboard: total members, how the club has grown over time, and gender and age breakdowns. Those breakdowns are aggregate counts only. You see how many members fall in each group, never any individual member's gender or date of birth.

Building your club's page

On the website, open your club's dashboard and choose Page builder. You edit your page while looking at it: click a section to change it, and use the + between two sections to add one there. The sidebar has three tabs. Add lists every kind of section, and you can drag one onto the page. Pages is where you add up to four extra pages, such as club rules or a training program. Style sets the heading font, a light or always dark page, and which numbers show under your club's name. Your extra pages always appear in the top bar of your club page.

Sections you can add. Text, links, buttons, an image, a photo gallery, an image with text, a video from YouTube or Vimeo, a weekly schedule, questions and answers, a countdown to a date, and sponsors. Some sections fill themselves in from your club: your next runs, your members, and the races your members are signed up for. Each section can sit on a plain background, a soft tint, your club's color, or a dark band.

Draft, preview, publish. Your changes save themselves as a draft that only your club's admins can see. Preview opens your club page with the draft on it. Publish makes it the page everyone sees. Discard changes goes back to what is published.

Members-only sections. While editing a section, Who can see this can be set to members of your club. Everyone else sees a locked card with the heading, or nothing at all if you turn that off.

Your club's color and headline. On the Club details tab, pick a Club color and write a short Headline. The color is used for the buttons and highlights on your page, and the headline appears large under your club's name. Any color works: the page adjusts it where needed so text always stays readable.

The page builder is on the website. In the Run This app, a club's page shows on the club's Home tab once you have the latest version of the app.

Dues, a club shop and coupons

Taking money is optional. A club works fully without it. Everything below is on your club's dashboard on the website, under Money.

Getting paid. Open Payments. The club's owner accepts the Club Agreement and connects where the money goes: a bank account through a secure form, your own Stripe account, or an account you already use for your races. This is set up once, for dues and your shop together.

Membership dues. Open Membership dues and add a level: a name, the price your club receives (the processing fee is added on top), and how long it lasts. Members join from your club page. You can see who is paid up and every payment, and refund a payment from your club's funds (the processing fee is not returned). To bring in members you already have, upload a spreadsheet with Email and Paid through columns. Nobody is charged or emailed.

Your shop. Open Store and choose Add a product. Give it a name, photos, a price and, if it comes in sizes or colors, its choices. A new product is a Draft until you make it Active. You can say how many you have, set a lower member price, limit an item to members, and set dates for a pre-order. Under the price you see what a buyer is charged and what your club receives. Set your pickup instructions and, if your club must charge it, your sales tax rate. Your club is responsible for knowing whether it owes sales tax.

Handing out orders. New orders appear under Orders, on the website and in the app's club dashboard. Ask for the buyer's pickup code, then mark the order Handed over. Refunds are made on the website and come out of your club's funds.

Coupons. Open Coupons and choose Create code. A code takes a percent or a dollar amount off dues, your shop, or both. You can limit how many times it works, limit it to one use per person, and give it a last day. A code always leaves at least $1 to pay, so it cannot make something free. Turn a code off any time without deleting it.