Start Running Stay Running

Raise a runner for life 🏃

Running gives kids more than fitness — it builds confidence, focus, and resilience that carries into everything else. Our coaches sharpen the speed and endurance too, so they're ready to race their best.

Junior squads running now:
Mon — Bracken Ridge (7–17yrs) + Sprint/Middle Distance Squads (11–17yrs)
Wed — Nundah (7–17yrs)

Enrol your junior runner: 0434 345 145, or email [email protected]

How to run up hills 🏔️

Lean in from your ankles — not your waist.
Drive your arms, let your legs follow.
Stay relaxed: loose fists, shoulders down.

Fight the hill and it wins. Work with it and you fly.

Running doesn't ask much. Just one foot in front of the other. But look at what it gives back.

Your heart gets stronger. Your lungs work harder for less effort. Your sleep improves, your energy climbs, and the stress that builds up all week has somewhere to go. Studies keep saying what runners already know: a regular run does more for anxiety and mood than almost anything else you could do in 30 minutes.

Then there's what happens off to the side of all that — the friendships you don't plan for. The people who show up next to you at 5:30am, who know your pace and your bad days, who somehow make the hardest kilometre the one you remember. You don't find friends like that sitting still.

And every so often, you get a sunrise like this one. Free. Unscheduled. Yours because you got up for it.

Stronger body. Clearer mind. Closer friends. That's the whole pitch.

🏅 Congratulations to our Start Running Stay Running athletes on their fantastic results at District and Zone Championships!

Zoe stormed the Districts 800m for 1st place (2:36.02) and backed it up with 2nd in the 1500m (5:24). Thomas took 1st in the Districts 1500m (5:30.01) and 2nd in the 800m (2:37.03). Bridget claimed 1st place in the Zones 800m, Lilly finished 3rd in the Zones 800m, and Luella placed 3rd in the Districts 100m.

Every result here reflects months of hard work. We couldn't be prouder of this squad — well done to all five of you!

Course-specific training in action 🏃 The 2026 Bridge to Brisbane 10km starts with a climb up the Gateway Bridge — so that's exactly where we train. Hill repeats done, athletes smashing it.

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⚡ TUESDAY MORNING SPEED SESSIONS ⚡

Get faster, get stronger, get fitter with SRSR's specific speed sessions.

Every session is scientifically based and specifically targeted at the right running effort for real, measurable performance gains – no guesswork, just results.

Join us Tuesday mornings at Sandgate and see the difference structured speed work makes 💪

Contact Carl on 0434 345 145 to join.

🏅 WELL DONE, SRSR! 🏅

What a Sunday at the Sunshine Coast Half Marathon! So proud of every one of our athletes who lined up and gave it everything out there.

Huge congrats to Sara Deakin, Keith Coughlan, Megan Hurford, Rachel Pastoors, Ana-Marija Tomic and Melissa Clark – every one of these results is the product of months of early mornings, hard sessions and consistency. Well done team, you should be so proud! 💙

🏃🥇Congratulations to Rob Platt who is SRSR’s July Athlete of the Month👍Rob improved his half marathon time from 2 hrs 32 mins in 2024 to 2 hrs 4 mins in this years Jetty to Jetty☀️Well done Rob, your hard training and commitment is fantastic🙂

Running Technique Analysis, now available.

Video analysis of your running form, broken down into a full report — built to help you run faster, more efficiently, and with less injury risk.

Whether you're chasing a PB or just tired of niggles that won't go away, understanding your form is where it starts.

Contact SRSR on 0434 345 145 to book yours in.

Tip of the day: be light on your feet and lift your heels.

If you catch yourself running in a "sitting" position — hips sagging back, chest folding forward — it's usually weak glutes and a disengaged core, not your stride. Sitting all day tightens your hip flexors, and tight hip flexors send a signal to your glutes to switch off. That signal doesn't turn off when you start running, so your hips drop into that seated posture instead of staying tall.

Staying light on your feet and lifting your heels is the cue that pulls you back out of it — it lifts your weight up and forward instead of letting it sink back.