If you want to be a better runner, this is the club for you

There is no qualifying standard and no minimum pace. Sessions run in pace groups — usually four or five — and there is always a slower group; we have members still racing in their seventies. On a repetition session everyone works for the same distance or the same time rather than at the same speed, so you are running your own effort. Nobody gets left behind.

They are structured sessions rather than social runs, so it helps if you are already running regularly. If you are starting from scratch, Winchester parkrun on a Saturday morning is the better first step.

No. Register on our join page — it takes a minute, there is nothing to pay, and it means someone is expecting you and check-in is quick when you arrive. Then come to a session and see how you find it.

You can come up to three times before you decide. When you are ready to join the club or compete in club events, you complete your membership and pay the annual subscription through the same account.

Trainers, a water bottle and layers for the weather. For the Tuesday and Thursday sessions at Gaterfield, spikes or off-road shoes are useful but not essential to start with. No club kit needed until you join.

For 2026/27, full membership is £66 a year. Students in full-time education paying their own fees pay £49.50, and social or out-of-region membership is £22. England Athletics affiliation adds £23 a year where competition access is included — it is only payable to one club, so if you have already affiliated elsewhere this year we will not charge it again.

Fees are pro-rated for anyone joining part-way through the year. If cost is the thing standing in your way, talk to us — we do not believe anyone's financial circumstances should prevent them from being the runner they want to be.

Yes. Junior and middle-distance athletes train at 5:45pm on Tuesday and Thursday, before the senior session, and we welcome juniors from age 8. There is more on our junior section page — coaching, safeguarding, what it costs and what to bring.

We are affiliated to England Athletics, which sets the standards we work to for coaching qualifications, insurance, safeguarding and governance. The club has a named welfare officer, and our inclusion and health and safety policies are published in full on the policies page.