Weekly Announcement 11/18 - Race Week in Philly + Endorphins App Updates!! + City Lead / Pace Lead Renewals + Hoodies for Christmas
Hey everyone!!
Goood morning and a very happy Endorphins Monday to you all!
Welcome to the 100+ people who joined the Endorphins community in the past week across the country. Our collective mission is to spread positivity and happiness through movement and exercise! We do this each and every week by hosting 25+ group runs across the US! Whether you live in one of our 11 cities or are a virtual member, we are all united by our mission!
If you would like to remain involved with the community we recommend you download our community app hosted on Circle! This is where you can stay up to date on group runs, events, and updates and more!
Race Week in PHILLY!!!
The time has come! It is race week in Philly! and we have a lineupppp of events in store for you all! We can’t wait to see all of you out there repping Bolt Blue on race day!
Saturday Half Marathon Cheer Zone
Sunday Marathon Cheer Zone w/ Philly Runner
Monday Post Race Walk and Coffee
Shirt Pick Up
If you snagged one of our Limited Philly Marathon Shakeout Shirts before we ran out congrats! We will have all of them at Musette Coffee shop after the shakeout run from 10:30AM to ~1:00pm. If you are racing in any of the Saturday Morning events you should have plenty of time to swing by to pick up.
If you selected Shipping at checkout, we will have your shirts at the shakeout with us for you to pick up so come by!
Pick up location: Directions
Endorphins App Update!!!
Well… lololol. Since last week we have had 70+ community members join our private beta app testing thread in circle! Turns out… we have an army of extremelyyyy talented tech people in Endorphins lol. So epic to see!
Context: Why we are building the Endorphins App?
In Community Vote 24 we asked members for your feedback on our community tooling, i.e. Circle, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc.. as well as how to improve Endorphins 365 (our annual coaching program).The most common feedback for community tooling was. Circle can be messy, events are hard to track, and race chats on WhatsApp are overwhelming (and filled with stock advice spam). Plus, many of you have asked for more personalized coaching that adapts to your fitness and goals.
The idea is that the Endorphins app will solve all that. It brings everything—events, chats, coaching, and more—into one place. By integrating with platforms like Strava and Garmin, it’ll also deliver tailored training plans that truly work for you.
Endorphins has always been community first—and it always will be. In true Endorphins fashion, we’ve rallied an amazing group of people to help build something better for everyone. From brainstorming ideas to testing the app, submitting bugs, and making sure we’re coding the best possible experience, this has been a full team effort. Together, we’re shaping the future of Endorphins!
Here is a recap of what has gone down in the past week:
We built a public Roadmap of all the features we are working on!!
We have a link for anyone to download the beta app and start submitting bugs and testing things!! This is really important to make sure the app is awesome before we release it!
We opened threads for people to submit feature ideas i.e. leaderboards, live tracking at runs, sync Endorphins 365 workouts to your watch etc! The features with the most engagement in the thread are then added to the roadmap for people to code!
We have onboarded 6 engineers from the community into the codebase! Major shout out to @David Wolfand (DC) and @Jeffrey Xiao (NYC) for making huge contributions to the codebase last week!! Additional shoutouts to @Brooke Goldstein @Brianna Goldstein @Meghan Murphy and @Hannah Seabert for diving into the code and getting onboarded!!
If you want to help us as we gear up for the launch of the app in the next few weeks (likely early Jan 2025)…
Here is how you can support:
Beta Testing - we need help submitting bugs and testing the app!! We will not be releasing the app to all 25,000 Endorphins members until we feel confident the app will be up to Endorphins standard. If you wanna help test, you can join the private app space in circle here. Once in there, you can also submit feature ideas so we can make sure we are building the most desired things for the community!
Front End / UI Engineers - we have 6 backend engineers / full stack engineers onboarded (LFGGG) but def could user some help from the community here on the Front End. If you are a kick ass FE UI engineer with experience building out modular, reusable, and scalable UI components, tap in as we could really use your help!
Product Designers - we are receiving a ton of incredible feature requests, but have no one on the squad to help design the features! If you are a mobile product designer and want to help us out, you can join here!
Once you join the private app space, you can see the all the details on how you can help out!
City Lead + Pace Lead Renewals!!
Over the past 6 months a huge project we have worked on is developing community standards, guidelines, roles and responsibilities. In practice this looked like gathering feedback from our city leads, pace leads, and members to help define what it means to be part of Endorphins as well as the different levels of involvement.
It became clear that you do not need to come to runs to be involved with our community. How you may ask! We have members all across the world who are virtual first, participants in conversations within circle, are part of our training program, or wear our gear on race day.
Another huge byproduct of these standards was the roles and responsibilities of our leaders. This will be the first time we are doing this, but in the next month we will be asking our city leads and pace leads to evaluate their prior ability to lead the group effectively as well as decide if they would like to continue being a city lead or pace lead. This will be a crucial process for the longevity of our organization as it will allow for our leaders to transition when it is best for them and equally allow members to elevate their roles within Endorphins! This will allow Endorphins to live for many years to come!
In the coming weeks, you may hear about these renewal processes. It is important for everyone to know they are happening, why they are happening, and that transition is welcomed within the community!!
For additional context about the processes, you can take a look at our community guidelines section within circle!
Stay tuned for more details on this in the coming weeks!
Hoodies for Christmas!!
Last year we did a hoodie drop around Christmas time. Every day people ask when they’ll be restocked…… andddddd we are likely going to be doing another one (with a different design) in the next few weeks so you can have one in time for the holidays! Stay on the lookout for a community vote on designs in the next few days!
Giveaway timeeee!
Comment the ⚡💙 on this post to be entered and we will choose several members to win some New Balance kicks!
Have an awesome week!
Only the best,
Tyler ⚡💙