How many people ended up dating and/or getting married at your local running club?

None

I went on 1 date with a girl at a run club and it went really bad . I still hate her and the running club.

I ran for the Santa Monica Track Club in the 1970s. There was a girl who jogged at the track occasionally and worked at a restaurant (Foster's Freeze) adjacent to the track. We knew each other for a couple years, dated and then married. She was 19 and I was 23. Now of 42 years later we are still married and very happy.

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The local running (more social) club in my area has many people getting together, though it appears that many times these people entered the club married to other non-runners. Seems if you are in your 40s and in the post nuptial shutoff, you could clean up in the social running clubs. And if you are a woman who married the HS football player who is now 40 and fat, the clubs seem like a popular place to get some on the side.

Dated a club person while I was in my late 20s. She was annoying...did not get married.

So does this happen at all with the 20s crowd? Sometimes it feels like in metropolitan areas the running clubs tend to all be older.

Yes it feels like in the 20s crowd you either have the sub-elites or no runners.

We have had several "successful" marriages - creates a good genetic mix for the future of our club

Married couples join my running club and soon after get divorced.

Me my wife through the club. We were both in our 20s.

Several other couples I know of in the UK.

Zero, the running club here is just a bunch of old people who put on races.

Consider dating a non-runner who still respects your goals. Having some balance in your life is good.

I met my wife at the running club in London and have been married for 17 years. We both run for a club and so do our children.

There are lots of married runner couples that met at the running club or via athletics.

When I was a freshman I asked out the former girlfriend of our college team's captain/#2 runner. It wasn't long after they'd split. We went out for dinner and that was about it. Okay dinner conversation but an awkward parting, and I don't think we spoke more than a sentence at a time to each other after that. She was super smart and became a high powered lawyer-judge, and ran some major city marathons. Steerike One!

Senior year after a few beers I tried to hit on a former teammate's (graduated 2 or 3 years earlier) ex girlfriend, also on the team, but that was rejected and we pretty much hate each other to this day. She had dagger eyes and was mean as a snake. Steerike Two!

Post grad season had a tumultuous on off thing with a 10, but she was into Jesus, and it would have been a three-way so I kind of backed down and instead cavorted with harlots and mind-altered floozies, resulting in a lot of dirty looks and consternation from Sister Christian. She left pretty mad and that was that. You're Out!!!!

But I soon after that string of debacles, I met a runner from another team and we hit it off pretty well, still married, and have done numerous collaborative efforts with various running clubs. HOMERRRRRR!

I did, and our anniversary is in two days coincidentally (10/1). Well, it's our 3rd anniversary.