🏃♂️🏃♀️Welcome to the home of all things running, track and field at Royal Holloway! 🏃♀️🏃♂️
Athletics and Cross Country is an inclusive and welcoming club which provides opportunities for all - no try-outs, no drama, just a shared love for the sport.
Our weekly schedule has something for everyone, whether you want to gain fitness, improve your 5k time, learn long jump or compete in national competitions against the very best. You will meet students from all over campus and get to know each other through training sessions, socials and trips around London (and beyond!).
As Harry Morgan from JOG ON famously said, ‘go for that run’: come join us at a taster session or social and find out what we do!
Events and Activities
Over the course of next year our members can expect:
- On-campus training on Mondays and Thursdays, for short- and long-distance athletes
- Explore the local area on our social runs!
- Optional competitve training on the track and field at the Thames Valley Athletics Centre on Wednesday afternoons
- Girls Run Club - an exclusive free womens’ only group run followed by coffee on Sunday mornings
- Saturday morning long group runs for those who wish to get in the miles
- Regular socials including karaoke, themed costume parties, Christmas meals, pub crawls, awards nights, an end-of-year barbeque and more!
- Opportunities to compete in the London-wide LUCA competitions, national BUCS championships and other races like the Uni of Manchester Cross Country Relays
- Strength and conditioning sessions
- Plenty of group trips into London for organized runs and volunteering
- Travel around the country with the club (recent trips have included Leeds, Manchester, Swansea and Edinburgh!)
- Finally, we want to assure you that we will provide a safe and risk-free environment for all members to train. We have registered first aiders on our committee
Memberships
For the 24/25 season, all our members will be required to purchase a Standard Membership for £30. This membership provides:
- Access to on-campus training sessions and social runs (Mondays and Thursdays)
- Access to all our socials throughout the year
- The ability to stand and vote in elections to decide the current and future Athletics committees running the club
- The opportunity to attend Colours Ball with the club - the annual Royal Holloway sports awards ceremony
- One free entry to a LUCA event (the rest are pay-as-you-go)
- Partial coverage of transport and accommodation costs to competitions around the country
- A space in our Varsity team!
Optionally and for our members who want to train on a track and compete with the club, the Competitive Top-Up will cost £70 for the year (or you can pay in termly installments) and provides:
- Additional training once a week on Wednesday afternoons at the Thames Valley Athletics Centre (for long-, short- and middle-distance and field athletes)
- Competitive training in a dedicated group of similar ability
NEW for 24/25, our Social Membership for £10 is for members who opt not to train with us and only attend our socials. This membership is designed for students who want to partake in our ‘run club’-style events at the weekend but not normal training.
All our members are able to purchase kit - check in the ‘Products’ section for what is currently available (more to come very soon!).
Contact Us
We are super excited to welcome our new members to our Athletics family! The committee are happy to answer any questions you might have. Feel free to get in touch with us via our Instagram account, or simply drop us an email at athletics@royalholloway.su.
Stay in the Loop
Follow our socials if you fancy seeing our training schedules, information about socials, competition highlights and athletes of the month in your feed!
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