FREE Tours with Staying Alive Running Club

 

During the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the Staying Alive Running Club are offering you the chance to go on a FREE running tour.

The tour will follow in the footsteps of the torch bearers from the recent Olympic Torch relay in Edinburgh (exclusive Staying Alive Running Club footage HERE). Your Staying Alive Tour Guides will be highlighting  tourist sites along the way – some you may know but lots of alternative sites and hidden treasures too.

Here’s a summary of what you can expect

• It’s completely free and open to everyone,
• Covers 3 miles with 6 stops to highlight over 25 points of historical and social interest,
• Lasts around 1 hour 30 mins so the pace should suit all running abilities,
• Starts at the Commonwealth Pool and finishes at the Grassmarket
• Optional social drink with your fellow runners afterwards,We guarantee you’ll learn things about Edinburgh you never knew so appeals to both locals and non-locals,
• A small bag of personal belongings can be transported from the start to the finish for you – this is free too!

 

Remember the Staying Alive Running Club is not about speed, distance and time – it’s more about running, being social and staying alive so the tour will suit all levels of running ability.

The dates of the tours are:

• Wednesdays: 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th Aug @ 7.00pm
• Sundays: 12th, 19th, 26th Aug & 2nd Sept @ 11.00am

Meeting place: Royal Commonwealth Pool.

For a map of the route click HERE.

This gives you a great chance to get those trainers on and see some sites from a different perspective with the Staying Alive Running Club.

It’s easy to book a place on our tours:

email: stayingaliverc@gmail.com

phone: 07950 568674

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A virtual running club is born that is STAYING ALIVE!

Staying Alive Running Club came about when four friends from Scotland went to Berlin in April 2012 for the Berlin Half Marathon. In the run up to the event they got together to plan the trip and also to train. This was often done in conjunction with a coffee, a brunch or a drink. This pattern continued during the 5 days they were in Berlin.

Of course the conversations were sometimes about running e.g. strategies for dealing with those times running got really difficult and you felt like stopping. “Just think of the Bee Gees as you plod those pavements, paths or roads and sing along” was one of the strategies suggested. “Ah ah ah ah…Staying Alive, Staying Alive” became our motto and it has stuck with us ever since.

The song was in our heads when we ran the Berlin Half Marathon and was still in our heads when we got back to Scotland. The four of us continued to meet for running, talking, drinking and eating. The Staying Alive motto bonded us as runners and as social beings. So what was more important the running or the social side of things. We still don’t know the answer so we’re going to keep meeting to find out. The thing is we need others to join us whether in person or virtually.

Staying Alive Running Club is an open virtual network for all you happy runners that can sing like the Bee Gees! It’s not about speed, distance and time. It’s about running, being social and staying alive.

The club aims to bring people from around the world together to share their interest in running and staying alive.

So if you’re a runner and a social being join in and stay alive with us.