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HOW FAR CAN YOU RUN IN 60 MINUTES? ⏱️

One hour. One track. One challenge.

Join us on Wednesday 22nd July for our 1 Hour Track Challenge and see just how far you can go. Whether you’re chasing a PB, testing your endurance or looking for a unique race experience, every lap counts.

💙 Open to runners of all abilities
⏱️ Professionally timed
📸 Free race photos
🍺 Post race Lucky Saint
🥤 SiS nutrition

🏆 Plus, score points towards our Best Race Series, with the chance to win adidas running shoes across the four race series.

📍 Tooting Athletics Track
🗓️ Wednesday 22nd July
🕖 7:00pm

Are you ready to race the clock?

👉 Sign up now via the link in our bio before entries close.
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🏃🏽‍♂️WINCHESTER, WE’RE COMING! 💙

Join Best Athletics with Nick Bester (𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 | Justalilbester) and special guest Jordan Dunne () for a FREE community interval session designed for runners of all abilities.

Whether you’re training for your next race, looking to improve your fitness or simply want to meet other runners, we’d love to have you there.

📍 King George V Fields, Wi******er (SO23 0QQ)
📅 Tuesday 28th July
⏰ Meet at 6:45 PM | Session starts at 7:00 PM
🧺 Post session picnic

✨ Plus:
🧦 Free socks to be won
🥤 SiS fuel
🍻 Lucky Saint beers

Bring a friend, bring a picnic and come and experience what the Best Athletics community is all about.

🔗 Sign up via the link in our bio!
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💙 FREE OPEN NIGHT – NEXT TUESDAY 💙

Ever wondered what it’s like to train with Best Athletics?

Whether you’re chasing a PB, training for your first 5k, or simply looking for a welcoming running community, this is the perfect session to come along and give us a try.

🏃 Free coached session for all abilities
📍 Battersea Bandstand
📅 Tuesday 30th June
⏰ Meet 18:30 | Start 18:45

After the session, stick around to meet the team and chat with other runners over a Lucky Saint 🍻 or SiS electrolytes 🔋

Please sign up via the link in our bio to reserve your place 🫶🏽

Come on your own or bring a friend we can’t wait to welcome you! 💙
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⚡️ Post Storm, Morning Sunshine & a track full of runners getting it done 😎

Our final track session whilst Battersea Park gets a shiny refurbishment ✨

Now we swap the track for the park as we launch our 12 Weeks to PBs series in Battersea Park - the perfect opportunity to build fitness, stay consistent and chase something special this summer 🏃🏽‍♂️🚀

To kick things off, we’re hosting a FREE Open Night next week and everyone is welcome.

🏃‍♀️ All abilities
🎤 Led interval session with 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 | Justalilbester
⚡️ SiS goodies
🍻 Lucky Saint post run social
🎶 Good vibes guaranteed

📍 Battersea Park Bandstand
📅 Tuesday 30th June
⏰ 6:30pm

Come run, chat, meet the community and see what Best Athletics is all about 💙

🔗 Sign up via the link in our bio.

See you in the park ☀️💙
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🎙️ New Podcast Episode out now🎙️

Fresh off a historic performance at Comrades Marathon, where he broke the course record in an astonishing 5:15:56, George Kusche joins Nick Bester (𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 | Justalilbester) on the Best Athletics Podcast.

🏃🏽‍♂️ George Kusche

Together they dive into the training, racing, fuelling and mindset behind one of the greatest performances in endurance running.

In this episode we discuss:

🏆 Breaking the Comrades record in 5:15:56
⛰️ Up Run vs Down Run
🥤 Race day fuelling and hydration
⚡ Why speed matters for endurance performance
📈 George’s training philosophy
😴 Recovery, sleep and daily habits
🎯 What’s next after Comrades

Whether you’re training for your first 5K or your next ultra, this episode is packed with practical insights from one of the sport’s most exciting athletes.

🎧 Listen now via the link in our bio and let us know your biggest takeaway below 🙌🏽
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THANK YOU adidas
adidas Running

✨ 22 Lucky Best Athletics Members.
🌍 4 iconic races.
💙 One incredible community.

This year so far, thanks to adidas, 22 Best Athletics members have secured entries to some of Europe’s most iconic running events:

🇬🇧 Manchester Marathon
🇫🇷 Paris 10K
🇩🇪 Berlin City Night 10K
🇩🇪 Berlin Marathon

We are so grateful to have these amazing opportunities open to our Best Athletics members.
For some, it’ll be a first marathon.
For others, a chance to chase a PB.
And for many, an opportunity to experience races they’ve dreamed about for years.

Watching our members turn ambitions into reality is what this community is all about 💙🤍

A huge thank you to adidas for believing in what we’re building and for creating opportunities that allow our members to take on some of the most exciting races in the world ⭐️

Good luck to everyone racing. We can’t wait to follow the journey 🔥
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🚀 TRACK TUESDAY 💙

Another brilliant morning & evening on the track with athletes of all abilities putting in the work and supporting each other 👏🏽

The session:
🔥 3-4 sets of:
1200m @ controlled 10K pace
60 second float recovery

⚡ 400m @ 5K pace
2 minutes recovery

As Battersea Track closes for the summer, the training doesn’t stop.

Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be taking our Tuesday interval sessions and Thursday tempo sessions into Battersea Park as part of the Best Athletics Summer PB Challenge.

🎯 Choose your goal:
• 5K
• 10K
• Half Marathon

💙 Want to see what Best Athletics is all about?

Join us for our Summer Open Night on Tuesday 30th June at 6:30 PM, meeting at the Battersea Park Bandstand.

The session is completely free and open to runners of all abilities. Come along, meet the community and experience a Best Athletics session for yourself.

🔗 Sign up in our bio.

We’ll be providing structured sessions every week, helping you stay consistent, train alongside the community and see what 12 weeks of focused training can do.

Whether you’re aiming for a PB, your first race, or simply looking for motivation to train, we’d love to have you involved.

💙 Consistency creates PBs!
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🏁 LIMIT 60 🏁

Race 3 of our 2026 Best Race Series x adidas is just around the corner 💙

No finish line.
No pacing lights.
No hiding.

Just 60 minutes to cover as much distance as possible.

📅 Wednesday 22nd July
📍 Tooting Bec Athletics Track
⏰ 7:00 PM Start

The challenge is simple:

⏱️ Run for 60 minutes
🏁 Stop at the final whistle
📏 Your result = total distance covered

With only two races remaining in the series, every metre counts.

Who’s in? 👇💙

Sign up over on Let’s Do This.
Link in our bio.
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💙 LOOK GOOD. RUN FAST. 💙

We’re giving you 30% OFF all Best Athletics merch until midnight on Thursday.

⚡️ Use code: BA30
⏰ Ends Thursday at midnight

Whether you’re joining us at Track Tuesday, chasing a summer PB, or simply want to represent the club, now’s your chance 💙🤍

Tag a teammate who needs an excuse to buy more running kit 🏃🏽‍♂️⚡️👏🏽🏃🏽‍♀️💥
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🥇 MEDAL MONDAY 🥇

What a weekend for Team BA 💙

From Swansea to Warsaw, Paris to Chicago, Nairobi to Dorney, our athletes were out racing, challenging themselves and flying the Best Athletics flag around the world 🌍🚀

A huge congratulations to everyone who made the start line this weekend, whether you were chasing a PB, making your triathlon debut, representing your country, tackling an ultra marathon or simply testing yourself over a new distance.

🏁 Results Round up

🇬🇧 Swansea Half Marathon
Christa Cain – 1:15:11
Nick Bester – 1:11:39
Will Parry – 1:28:36
Zoltán Molnár – 1:27:41
Anne Boden – 1:31:36
Owain Williams – 1:34:08

🇺🇸 Chicago Half Marathon
Jonah Noel – 1:31:00

🇫🇷 Paris 10K
Eli Bukovicova – 44:49
Somayeh Tosi – 51:22

🇵🇱 Ironman 70.3 Warsaw
Gagan Kumar – 5:18:23

🏊🚴🏃 Dorney Olympic Distance Triathlon
James Buhl – 2:33:52

⛰️ 58K Ultra Marathon
Miguel Reis – 5:50:00

A huge thank you to adidas for supporting our members with race entries this season 💙

Congratulations everyone. We are incredibly proud of you all 👏🏽
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