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Tuesday 15 July: No path session due to Club championship event.
LGBTQ+ Women: Fresh 10k training programme starting in July. More facts on our training pages.
London Frontrunners is an inclusive running and triathlon club for lesbians, gay and bisexual men and women, trans people and our allies. We are unclosed to anyone, regardless of ability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Formed in , we are part of International Front Runners, a network of LGBT running clubs all over the world.
We hold over members, ranging from recreational joggers to competitive road and cross-country athletes; and everyone in between. Regardless of your level of fitness, your pace or your preferred distance, you will find members to run and drill with.
All of the facts about the club is on this website, but if you have any questions get in handle at [email&#;protected].
We look forward to seeing you on one of our runs soon!
Meet the London Frontrunners - London's running club for LGBT+ and gay-friendly people
The book The Front Runner, about a love affair between a male running coach and a male athlete, is noted for entity the first contemporary gay novel to achieve mainstream achievement. But it also had a bigger, longer-lasting impact on the running community: it inspired the launch of The Frontrunners movement.
The London branch, founded in , is now the largest queer woman , gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) sports club in Europe, with more than members. ‘Back in the mids, it was even more difficult to be openly gay in a sporting environment,’ says club co-president Jamie Keenan. ‘So part of the club’s mission utterance was to provide a safe vacuum for members of the LGBT collective who are interested in running.’
The running element is important to the club, and the Frontrunners have plenty of front-running members, but it’s also not the be-all and end-all. ‘I was one of those people who worried that I was too lethargic to join a club, and I shouldn’t have been,’ says Keenan. ‘If you can operate a pa
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London Frontrunners is an inclusive running club for lesbians, gay and double attraction men and women, transgender people and our allies. We are open to anyone, regardless of ability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Formed in , we are part of International Frontrunners, a network of LGBT running clubs all over the world.
We have over members, ranging from recreational joggers to competitive road and cross country
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