Let’s be real for a second... most of us didn’t have a “run for fun” phase before kids, and now that we want to start (or get back into it), it’s hard to know where to begin. Or maybe you were a runner, and motherhood knocked your routine sideways and you just need your people back.

Either way, that’s what Run Club+ is for.

Every weekend (rotating Sat/Sun) at 7:00, we meet up in the Downers Grove/Hinsdale/La Grange area and run together at whatever pace, whatever distance, whatever season of running you’re in. New moms who’ve never run a mile and moms training for their next race are in the same group, same start line, same after-run coffee talk.

But the weekend run is just the visible part. Here’s what’s actually happening behind the scenes:

• A training plan built for you — not a generic PDF, an actual plan based on your goals, your body, and your life right now
• Someone checking in on you — accountability that isn’t guilt, it’s a coach who notices when you’ve missed a week and asks how you’re doing
• Real answers to your questions — nutrition, gait, what shoes you actually need, how to run through a Chicago winter, all of it

You don’t have to have this figured out before you join. That’s the point of joining.

Here’s the other piece: running gets easier, and safer, when your body is strong enough to support it. So Run Club+ isn’t just the group run. Every week you’re also in a cross training class at FIT4MOM EastDuPage West Cook, built specifically for runners: stronger hips, stronger core, fewer injuries, better miles.