Calling all runners

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

When Strathmore Running Club founder Kelly Yorston trained long hours for triathlons by herself every day a couple of years ago, she eventually felt that she needed to network with people to run with.
Despite attempts through Facebook she was unable to get it structured and that is when Diana Baird, who moved from Carp, Ont., recently, connected with Yorston a couple months ago.
“That was my desire in starting it,” said Yorston. “Where Diana has had a completely different side which is great because we have two different inspirations. For me I’m social, I love people and love meeting new people and I hate training by myself.”
Baird began in a learn-to-run group in Carp and she had such a successful time that they asked her to come back the following year. Ever since then, she’s had a focus on the health component of running.
“My focus is the health benefits because there’s endorphins,” said Baird. “You’ve got your emotional aspects that increase happiness along with the physical side with building my bone strength.
“When I came out here I was looking for somebody to run with and I’d see all these people running around me, but I didn’t know how to connect with them yet.”
This is where Baird connected with Yorston through Facebook.
Beside the current Strathmore Running Club, their plan is to take what Baird learned in Carp and create a learn-to-run club in Strathmore starting in February.
“The current people we have now, they’ve been runners in the past or they’re current runners and they’re joining us,” said Yorston. “There is that whole population we really want to motivate to get off the couch and come out to do their 5K they’ve never done.”
The Strathmore Running Club is for all ages and will run on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in Kinsmen Park and on Sundays at 9 a.m. at Strathmore Starbucks free of charge.
Anybody wishing to find out more information can e-mail them at runstrathmore@outlook.com.