Weekly Announcement 7/29 - Race Week in NYC! + Community Roles & Responsibilities! + Team Store Closing on 7/31! + Endorphins 365 is open! + Giveaway Time!

Hellllooo and happy Endorphins Monday!

A BIG welcome to the 250+ new members who joined Endorphins this past week! Endorphins is an inclusive running community with a presence all over the United States. We organize over 25 events each week in 11 cities and are on pace to host more than 1500 free group runs this year—an incredible milestone! Even though we can't be together in person every week, our mission to spread positivity and happiness keeps us connected. If you’re joining a run this week, we encourage you to come with an open mind and the goal of meeting someone new!

If you would like to remain involved with the community we recommend you download our community app hosted on Circle!

If you’d like to come out to one of our events this week, you can see a full breakdown here from our IG.

Race Week in NYC

It is race week in New York City!!! We have teamed up with PYNRs and AFTER:MILES to co host a 3 person co-ed team relay race.

How it works:
Each relay team will consist of THREE co-ed runners (no single-gendered team). The unsanctioned, unpermitted route will be announced on the night of the race. The distance for each runner is less than 1 mile. The course is a loop of several city blocks.

Date: August 1st
Time: 7:00pm Check In
Team: 3 total runners (must be coed)
Cost: $60 per team ($20 per person)
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spin-the-block-uptown-nyc-w-pynrs-endorphins-running-tickets-944989768837

You can register as a team captain on behalf of your team of three. You also can register solo and we will match you with a team.

If you can’t run in the race and would like to volunteer instead, message me here on circle!

Community Roles & Responsibilities

This is an update on something that has been going on behind the scenes for several months. It is fairly important matter to ensure Endorphins can exist for many years to come! Also - when we started Endorphins 2 years ago… never could we have imagined we would be having these large organizational matrix conversations… but here we are lol!

Endorphins has undergone tremendous changes since we started hosting group runs in November 2022. We have grown to 19,000 members, launched a coaching program led by three world-class coaches, and established a significant partnership with New Balance, among other achievements lfgggg. Both long-time members and more recent additions to the Endorphins community may feel these changes. As we have evolved and grown, the city leads have tripled down on maintaining our culture amidst this expansion. One key initiative behind the scenes has been expanding our city lead team to over 50 people, allowing us to host more amazing experiences in each respective city, ultimately fostering more friendships and contributing to our members' happier and healthier lives. We have also introduced the concept of Pace Leads in many of our cities, who help facilitate our group runs and enhance the experience for all members. To date, there hasn’t been a clear process for adding city leads, or pace leads.

With this in mind, our City Leads met last night to address these changes, tackle them head-on, and ensure we can continue delivering the best experiences possible for the community amidst our growth. Additionally, we dedicated a large portion of the session to defining the clear roles and responsibilities of being a city lead and discussed the role of our pace leads. This is in an effort to eliminate confusion around the roles! We also emphasized the importance of our members and how we can ensure everyone in the Endorphins community has opportunities to become more involved as a pace lead or potentially a city lead in the future.

In the coming weeks, we intend to solidify community standards and norms around roles, responsibilities, and commitments for our leaders. This will ensure we can continue to grow with care and continue spreading as much positivity and happiness as possible across the country! Stay tuned for more details as they unfold over the coming month!

New Balance Team Store Closing on 7/31

For those who are unaware, we have a team store powered by New Balance that has a handful of shoe options that can be purchased at 30% off. The store will be closing on 7/31 and reopening later this summer with some apparel items!

If you’d like to get some shoes from the team store before it temporarily closes, you can access the store here!

Endorphins 365 is open!

For context to those who have recently joined Endorphins - members of our community have collaborated to design and build a 365-day, always-on training program led by three elite coaches.

We closed off new member registrations several weeks ago to ensure our coaches could onboard members seamlessly into the program.

With this in mind, we will be opening up more spots in the program for those who are training for any race whether that is a 5k, 10k, Half Marathon, or Marathon and are seeking expert guidance and support to get you to the start line feeling ready to rippppp. If you missed the deadline, now is your chance to get into Endorphins 365 before we close it back up in the next few weeks.

Mainly - this is just an awesome resource to be able to be on the same training schedule as your peers. Many of our long runs across the country will be following the Endorphins 365 long run schedule for local marathons. Additionally - some cities are starting to incorporate Endorphins 365 speed workouts into the weekly calendar!

Here is the link to register with a 14 day free trial. You can give the program a try without being charged. If you love it, you can stick with it. If it isn’t the right fit for you, message me and I can try and help point you in the right direction!

Giveaway Time!!!

Last week we conducted several giveaways via our instagram and within the community. We have DM’d all winners. Some of you won New Balance shoes, some members won access to Endorphins 365 - our annual coaching program!

LETS RUN IT BACK!!! 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 ⚡💙