What if the person most intimidated by a run club is exactly the person it should be built for?

Cam Smit wasn't always a runner. He started in his late twenties, hated his first 2.7km and was too intimidated to join a run club himself. Years later, he created Cam's Run Club... the kind of running community he wishes had existed when he started.

The first session, literally nobody showed up. Today, 20–40 runners regularly join a community built around one simple idea: nobody runs alone.

If you've ever worried you're too slow, too inexperienced or simply not “runner enough” to join a run club, this conversation might change how you think about belonging in running.

Follow Cam's Run Club: https://www.instagram.com/camsrunclub/

In this episode:

• Why nobody came to Cam's first run-club session
• Building a club specifically for slower and newer runners
• Why nobody at Cam's Run Club runs alone
• The importance of finding a “third space” as an adult
• Cam's own journey from struggling beginner to sub-3:30 marathoner
• Why the term “only a 5K” should disappear from runners' vocabulary
• What Cam would tell someone who's still too nervous to show up

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Runbelievable is the podcast for every runner. From your first parkrun to your 100th marathon, from walk-run intervals to dabbling in trail running, every runner has a story worth telling. Through honest conversations with runners from all walks of life, Runbelievable explores the challenges, achievements, setbacks, and experiences that connect us through running and shape who we become.