How to lead
A Running Group
How to start a running group
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what's going on guys today I'm going to
tell you how I started my own running
group the golden triangle starters so a
few years back I noticed it was a need
for a year-round running group in our
area we had the serum Striders which was
a running club that put on the summer
run series but after the summer was over
there would be no more group running
opportunities in our area so I really
thought that we need a running group but
I never really put much thought into
starting one until I run the Austin
marathon and we invite up my friends to
come along and after the race they came
up to me and my brother and we're like
we want to train for a half marathon and
would you guys train us and of course
you know me and my brother were ecstatic
we we loved running and we wanted to
share our love of running with our
friends and this would be the perfect
opportunity to start that running group
that I had thought that we needed in our
area so that's how the golden Charles
Chartres was born so gold internals
Chartres what's with that name Golden
Triangle of course is our area that we
live in it's Beaumont orange and Port
Arthur and charters came from it was a
mean back in the day the Leo strut
they had Leonardo DiCaprio kind of
leaning his head one way and strutting
and I had a lot of running picture that
looked pretty similar to it and my
friend said that now be perfect Golden
Triangle Strutters so that's how gold
internal shredders came about I thought
was perfect name it was a little bit
silly and it was not too intimidating
for people they saw our running group
that they would wanted to come join us
so after we came up with a name I set up
a Facebook page I set up days set up
times and we started training it was me
and my brother and three of my friends
we trained for the gusher after we
checked about three months they around
the race and then for whatever reason
life got in their way
they stopped coming out to our runs so
it was just me my brother out there now
and for a long time it was just the two
of us we would we would wait extra 10 15
minutes after the start time and just
just wonder if anybody was show up
for months nobody did but I really
believe in the field of dreams kind of
thinking I thought that we kept on
coming out there week after week that
eventually somebody would show up and
eventually somebody did one person would
show up and we would run with them and
we were on one with him for every week
and then another person was show up and
another person and then we had maybe six
people show up and we thought we were
huge so we would take a picture it was
great
nowadays we have about twenty to thirty
people show up to every run and our
largest group has been about 90 people
and it's been great so if you guys want
to start a running group I think you
guys should go ahead and do it it
doesn't take much just takes a little
bit of time a little bit of effort and
it'll be successful and trust me when I
say it's been a pretty rewarding
experience I think that it's made our
city the Golden Triangle area a much
better place
we were once known as one of the fattest
cities in the nation and and because of
the golden charters and many other great
Fitness opportunities in our area I
think we can be known one day as one of
the fittest in the area so that's how I
started my group the golden Charles
charters so if you guys enjoyed this
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