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Hi Future Bears! 👋🏼

Welcome to the den of Running Bear RC!

If you’ve landed on this page you’ve either heard all about us or by now we’ve at least piqued your interest.. well let us tell you a little more about how we’re breaking the mould and changing up the running club game!

We’re a FREE inclusive online running community open to any age, any ability. We’re here for those who do not have the time to join organised running groups, or who are perhaps new to running and want to be a part of something but don’t quite feel confident enough to join their local club yet. We’re here to inspire you, to help you improve, to keep you injury free and lastly but most importantly.. keep you running!

Interested? We thought so!

We’ve made the process of joining Running Bear RC so easy, you’d be crazy not to! Simply complete the form below, purchase a tshirt/vest and join our incredible online community of friendly bears over at RBRC Facebook Community Hub.

We regularly upload tips, coaching sessions and more from our team of professional coaches, experienced runners, physios and other likeminded people who inspire us on our running journeys!

So go on, complete the form below – take that first step and join the revolution of running.

We’ll see you on the other side! 🐾

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Introducing the Experts

Coach Nick

As a member of the Running Bear Running Club, you will be hearing from Coach Nick every week. Nick will offer you weekly training plans, will bring you “live QA sessions”, and podcasts featuring people that will really make a difference to your running!

Who is Coach Nick?

Nick has been a competitive runner since primary school where he won the school Victor Ludorum. Once at Senior School, he became a track and cross-country runner, representing Cheshire at both. At that time Nick was a Member of Manchester Athletic Club, when he twice raced against Sebastian Coe!

Having run the inaugural Manchester Marathon In 1981, Nick then ran from London to Manchester with a team of three in five days…two marathons each day for five days!

Running has always been a big part of Nicks life, and he joined Wilmslow Running Club in 2001.

After suffering a number of injuries, Nick started coaching in 2013. As an EA qualified Coach, he is now Coach at Wilmslow Running Club and of course here at Running Bear.

Nick is well known in the running community, having had articles published in Runners World, Running & Fitness, and is currently writing a series of articles for Run Britain (The road running body of UK Athletics). The first can be found here.

Other roles include:

Cheshire County Selector & Team Manager for fell running
Chair of The Manchester Area Cross Country League
Race Adjudicator for The North West
EA Stadium announcer & Commentator
Co Race Director Bramhall parkrun

You will be in safe hands with Nick, and we know how much he is looking forward to helping you all on your running journeys.

Angela Jackson

Angela has been involved in treating people in sports at all levels both in the UK and Canada for the last 28 years. Her major interest is in prevention of injuries. In the last few years she has become a dedicated running physio training with the running school and with blaise dubois from the running clinic in Canada. The team at Physiofit are passionate about keeping you running pain free. Physiofit was established in 1992 by Angela, with the aim of providing excellence in physiotherapy care. We are a large team of passionate and experienced physiotherapists who specialise in the prevention and treatment of runners. We can quickly establish an accurate diagnosis getting you back running without delay. We will work with you to establish why your injury occurred, teach you how to monitor load and give you a strength programme to ensure return you to sport better prepared than you were before the injury.

Dr Kate

An experienced runner across road, trail & fell. Recently retired from being a GP for over 30 years, she’ll be here to help answer your health questions!

Clare Broomhead

The studio director at Yogalife Alderley Edge. Claire started her yoga journey when she broke her thoracic spine 9 years ago & since then has intenstively practiced yoga. Claire has over 500 hours teacher training – the team at yogalife are here to add a different dimension to your running experience!

Nick Heaton

Nick has a qualification of Level 2 Mental Wellbeing in Sport and Physical Activity awarded by UKA and a Level 2 in Counselling Concepts awarded by the Skills & Education Group. Nick is passionate about the power of running for mental health & wellbeing! This explains his unending enthusiasm for ultra, fell & road running,

Carol Bird

Running Bear ambassador – Carol is in the top percentile for her age group for long distance running. She’s represented England at Masters level as well as Cheshire. Don’t be intimidated by her achievements – she is super-approachable & loves helping runners get started on their journey!

Emma Venables

Emma is the Principal Massage Therapist at Premier Sports Massage & Fitness, and is fully qualified with a wealth of experience in treating clients with all varieties of injuries and ailments. Emma’s passion for helping people achieve their goals has resulted in her skills extending into Pilates & Circuit Training – strength, flexibility and general fitness are all key for running.

Now she’s here to help you Bears be fit and raring to go!

Phil Gartell

Phil is a triathlete and Ironman and loves his cycling and swimming as much as his running, so if you have any questions other than running he’s your man.
Phil is a qualified running coach and coaches weekly at his local running club. He loves helping others and gets immense pleasure from seeing the progress in people’s running.