Berlin Harriers crest: a swan in flight above the Berlin skyline

Berlin Harriers

Established 2021

Run for fun

Four runs a week. No coach, no fees, no set pace.

We are a free, English-speaking running club in Berlin. Turn up to any session and run with us — there is nothing to sign and nothing to pay.

Around fifteen runners of mixed ages standing together on a path in the Tiergarten before an evening run, several of them laughing

We have been running together since 2021 and are now a registered, charitable association. None of that changed the runs. They are still uncoached, still free, and we still adapt to whoever shows up on the day.

Everyone is welcome, at every pace. If you have ever hesitated at the edge of a running group because you thought you would be the slowest one there, this is the club for you — on the Monday run there is no set pace at all.

The schedule

Where to find us

Every run is open to everyone, members and first-timers alike. Each one ends somewhere with food or a drink, which is at least half the point.

Mon Monday Duck Next 18:30 · ~8 km · 5:45–6:30 min/km East of the Siegessäule, Tiergarten. An easy social loop through the park and along the Spree. There are bike racks at the meeting point, and in summer we sit by the water afterwards or head to the Biergarten am Neuen See.
Tue Tuesday Track Next 19:15 · 5–10 km · every pace Tuesday is the day to run fast. Sessions are built so you can join in whatever your speed, and no track experience is needed — everything gets explained. The meeting point is posted each week in Discord. Food and a drink afterwards.
Thu Thursday Swan Next 06:45 · ~7 km · relaxed Prisma Pavillon on the Landwehrkanal, for the early risers. A relaxed run along the water that finishes at La Maison — arguably the best bakery in Berlin — for a pastry and a coffee.
Sat Saturday parkrun Next 09:00 · 5 km · free, timed We turn up at the Hasenheide and Tempelhofer Feld parkruns — free, weekly, open to all and run by their own volunteers, not by us. Be there by 08:50 for the briefing. Coffee and cake in a nearby café afterwards.

Please note. Our runs are an informal invitation to run together — they are not organised events of the club and not coached or supervised sessions. There is no registration and no fee. Everyone takes part on their own responsibility and is asked to judge their own fitness and health. We run on public roads and paths, where the normal traffic rules apply and each runner is responsible for their own conduct. Guests who are not members of Berlin Harriers e.V. are not covered by the club's sports insurance.

Six hundred and thirty-seven of us log our runs together on Strava. It is the easiest way to see what the club is actually doing between sessions.

Season record

Where we have raced

We enter races together rather than as individuals. Most of the time the number that matters is how many of us turned up.

12 AprBerlin Half Marathon14 ran
25 MayTeufelsberg Mile2nd
14 SepCopenhagen Half Marathon6 ran
This week
11 OctBerlin MarathonJoin us
23 NovCross-country, GrunewaldJoin us

Come and run with us

Free, no registration, every pace. The next one is Monday at 18:30, east of the Siegessäule in the Tiergarten. Just come along.

Joining

You never have to become a member to run with us, and membership itself is free — no fees, no dues. Members get a vote at our meetings and a place on the trips and socials. Applying takes about two minutes and means signing our code of conduct.

If you were at our founding meeting, you are already a member and there is nothing for you to do.

Runners sitting around a small table outside a bakery after a morning run, holding coffee cups and eating pastries
Four runners on the path beside the Landwehrkanal at dawn, mist sitting on the water and a stone bridge behind them

The club

Discord is where the week actually happens — where the Tuesday Track location is posted and where people find someone to run with. It is also the club's living room, with side channels for everything from Berlin events to asparagus appreciation. We keep politics out of it; asparagus is about as divisive as we get.

See you on Monday.