(Photo courtesy Dave Howard/West Seattle Running Club)
Halfway into the first month of the new year, how’s your fitness resolution going? Need a little support? Dave Howard says he’s got just the group:

Did you make a fitness resolution for the new year? Do you want help keeping
it? Come run with the West Seattle Running Club. You may be thinking, “A running club? I might not be fast enough. These people are probably too hard core.” Not so. We are a social running group with nearly 60 members and all running levels. We welcome all paces including walk/runners. We have no rules and no expectations other than supporting each other and having fun.

Join us at the Statue of Liberty at Alki Beach on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6 p.m. and on Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. The runs are relatively informal; we all start out together and run with whoever is at our pace, and then make sure that everyone comes in safely. We usually run three to five miles during the week and maybe a longer run on Sundays. Our members run many events each year and we support each other with group training runs and schedules that are event specific.

We have been told we are a social group with a running problem. Maybe because we do pizza one night each week after the run and have coffee together following the Sunday morning runs. We do lots of cross-training activities including cycling and skiing. We sometimes put together relay teams for the events around the Northwest.

Not associated with any businesses or other local organizations, we are just your West Seattle neighbors, together for more than 16 years, to create opportunities for runners of all levels to meet and run with others, to provide support and encouragement to members in achieving their personal goals, and to have a lot of fun.

So keep that resolution, and let us help. Come on down to the beach and run with us. Just show up and we will introduce ourselves. For more information visit us at www.westseattlerunningclub.org or contact me at wsrdave@comcast.net or 206-938-2416. We look forward to running with you soon.