Weekly Announcement - 4/22/24 - Congrats London Runners! + Race in DC & Philly! + CV #22 Results!! + Endorphins 365 - Quarterly Options!! + NB Giveaway!!
Hello and Happy Endorphins Monday!
Welcome to all 370 new members that have joined us in the past week. Endorphins is a running community that is in ten cities across the US. Despite not all being together in person we are all united by our mission of spreading positivity and happiness through movement and exercise!
Our group meets on Monday mornings across the country, additionally each city hosts various weekday evening runs, and Saturday long runs. If you’d like to come to a run, you can see a list of events in each cities home space! If you don’t live in a city that has an Endorphins chapter you can still be an active member of the community by participating virtually via our coaching resources and by repping an Endorphins hat!
Ok lets get into this week!
Congrats to London Runners
Congrats to over 150 Endorphins members from across the world who raced in the London Marathon yesterday!!! That is insane to think about! Our shakeout run had representation from almost all of our cities which was a really powerful moment for our community! We are all so beyond inspired and proud of your accomplishments!
If you want to test your luck in the London Marathon lottery for 2025, the ballot opened yesterday. You can submit your name for entry here! The entry period closes on April 26th so now is your chance!
Unsanctioned Races in DC and Philly
All of this race talk from Boston and London Marathon weekends has us excited! Our city leads in both DC and Philly want in on the action and are planning unsanctioned races in the month of May for each of their respective communities. LETS freaking goooo!
As always - we like to prioritize our most engaged members. We have a priority interest form below. If you’d like to get early access to the race details fill out the form so you can get early access to a bib! LETS GOOO!
Community Vote #22 Results - Team Store Update
Last week we conducted our 22nd community vote. For anyone who isn’t familiar with community votes, they are a way for us to ensure our community is always being built with our members best interest in mind. We frequently ask our members for feedback, and then do our best to implement it at the global and city level!
Community Vote 22 is an exciting one as it kicks off our partnership with New Balance. A large component of the partnership includes co hosting in person group runs together. We know that we have many virtual first members that can’t always make the runs. With this in mind, we worked with New Balance to create an Endorphins team store where all items that go into the store are community selected and heavily discounted. This way everyone in the community can participate.
Over 750 members participated in the vote and the results are in. The first two items that will be added into the team store are…..
The Fresh Foam X 1080 v13 - 43.5% - crafted for everyday runs
FuelCell SuperComp Trainer - 14.8% - crafted for training runs
Expect the team store to be live before May 1st!! LETS GOO! The items will be in the store while inventory lasts. In the next few months we will be hosting more votes to update the store selection to make sure it remains fresh and up to date with the community favorite products!
More details to come soon!
Endorphins 365 Update - Quarterly Options!!
It is really crazy to look back on one years time. Endorphins members came together around this time last year to build what was then called the Marathon Project! The program was designed to support all of our Endorphins runners prepare for the summer and fall marathons (NYC, Chicago, Marine Corps, Philly, Berlin.) We brought on some extremely notable coaches and supported members of the program through 20 weeks of training. At the end of the 20 weeks, many members submitted personal bests and achieved their marathon goals!
Fast forward one year later and we have again worked with community members to level up our training program into what is now called Endorphins 365! The program offers 365 days of training support from elite running coaches, strength coaches, and dietitians. Additionally, it has transformed from what was once a PDF and weekly team zoom calls to a video based education curriculum that is designed to support anyone at any stage of your running journey.
We are currently in a private beta of the program where ~200 members of the community are trialing the programming to ensure everything is awesome before we open it up to the broader community next month. One MAJOR piece of feedback has been that some people only want to train for their races and not for the whole year. With this in mind, we have reconstructed how the program is built on the backend to offer a quarterly option!! This means you can sign up for your race season without needing to commit to the full year!
After speaking with the coaches and many members of the community we have landed on $131 per quarter for the Endorphins 365 training program! This is effectively half the cost of last years marathon program which was $262! Being able to support our members and your training is deeply tied to our mission. We know if you achieve your race day goals you will live a happier and healthier life!! And that is what it is all about!
We will be opening the program up in the coming weeks. If you would like to be on the priority access list and be notified when it is time to join, you can fill out the waitlist form here!
Giveaway TIMEEE
Last week anyone who participated in the community vote or commented the Endorphins emojis on the weekly announcement post was entered to win a New Balance giveaway.
The winners of some New Balance kicks are….. @Jake Hall @Catie Meighan ! Additionally, the community vote winners have been notified via email!! Congrats!!
LETS RUN IT BACK!
Comment the⚡💙 emojis on this post and we will choose a handful of people to win next week!
Only the best,
Tyler ⚡💙