Update: 19th – December 2020

With regret, from Thursday 19th December our current social bORRbble group runs are suspended during the tier 4 restrictions. We hope to be back up and running in January.

Thank you to all our club members and those who have contacted us to trial the group runs for all your support and we look forward to seeing everyone again a few weeks

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When the local area is again in tier 3 or lower then Club group runs will be held in the following format!!

• • Running in groups of up to 6 people including 1 leader
• • Groups available most days after school drop-off and in the evening
• • Wide variety of paces/distances
• • Larger number of groups running on our traditional Tuesday night
• • Track sessions also available
• • Following guidance from England Athletics and Sport England

To try out any of our group runs before deciding whether to join us please send an email to orpingtonroadrunners@gmail.com. All group runs are pre-booked in advance (for test and trace purposes) and allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. There are plenty of groups available across the whole week to suit all runners.

Don’t miss out, just click “join us” to sign up today.

During full lockdowns we were supporting our member’s by hosting a continuous programme of virtual events including:
1) 19 minute relay – balanced teams of 19 participants compete over 19 days to run as far as possible in 19 minutes
2) GPS art challenge – creating recognisable things out of the GPS traces of your run
3) 2.6 challenge – balanced teams of 10 participants competed to run 2.6 miles in the combined shortest time
4) Virtual Mayhem – innovative 2 week virtual competition vs our neighbour club Zero To Hero Runners
5) fORRty miles of running challenge – a team event to mark the 40th anniversary of the London Marathon
6) Streets Ahead Challenge – run routes to answer daily questions using street signs to spell the answers with bonuses for speed and distance
7) Ice Cream Challenge – A relay with a difference. Team members elect how far they want to run, but the team overall has to run 99 miles
8) Lamppost Challenge (1&2) – gather lampposts IDs from a number of lampposts marked on a map in the quickest time
9) Seaside Challenge – In teams run the distance from Orpington to the coast

Aside from that we’ve been creating content for our website to support solo running such as a database of great local running routes and a guide of how to use those with your watch of phone