Loading…
← Back to Run ClubsWhy this one made the list
Has its own clubhouse on the Bermondsey Beer Mile — post-run pints are baked into the clubhouse. Free road and track sessions leave from 130 Druid Street.
Practical
- Postcode
- SE1
- Meets
- Tue / Thu / Sun
- First visit
- Meet at the clubhouse, 130 Druid St SE1, for free Thames-side runs (Tue/Thu/Sun) — all paces welcome, with a Couch-to-5K intake for total beginners. It doubles as a bar, so the run rolls straight into a drink.
- Getting started
- Beginner course · Walk-in welcome
- Booking
- Walk-in
- Website
- London City Runners (LCR)
- @londoncityrunners
What you'd want to know
London City Runners' clubhouse sits at 130 Druid Street in Bermondsey — a 1,800 sq ft volunteer-run space on the Bermondsey Beer Mile, fronted onto a quiet railway-arch street. A converted ground-floor unit in a brick-arched former industrial building, fitted out with a long timber bar, coffee station, club-board with race photos and pace charts, and benches against the wall.
Open shelving holds club kit and merch. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday runs leave straight from the front door, threading through Bermondsey, the Thames Path and the City.
The bar opens after each run; the clubhouse pulls double duty as the post-run base. Wednesday is track.
The Beer Mile breweries (Anspach & Hobday, Fourpure, Brew by Numbers) line the same street, so the post-run pint extends easily.
Overheard from locals
- free to join, not affiliated to a brand. tuesday, thursday and sunday runs leave 130 druid street; wednesday is track.
- the clubhouse is the third place — 1,800 sq ft, volunteer-run, beer mile location. post-run pint isn't an afterthought, it's the structure.
- easy to disappear in if you turn up once — stay a few weeks and you'll start to know the regulars.
- the bar opens to the public too — saturday afternoons and evenings the clubhouse fills with non-runners as well as the crew.
- bring a fiver for a pint after; the volunteer team runs the bar. it's a club, not a business, and that shows in the rhythm.