Lena Vogt
Head coach — running
Writes every run block and leads Tuesday tempo. Ran her first marathon at thirty-eight and has paced eleven people through theirs since.
[ THE CLUB ]
Ironpace is a run club with a strength floor attached, in the arches under the old goods line. Six years in, it is still built on the same rule it was invented for: nobody finishes alone.
We do not time the social run. We do not publish a leaderboard. We wait at the corner — every corner — until the last person turns it, and then we run on together.
[ WHAT WE DON'T DO ]
Most of what makes a club feel like a competition was a choice somebody made. We made the other one, three times.
[ THE COACHES ]
All three coach and all three train here. You will meet whoever is leading the session you turn up to.
Priya Nair
Coach — hills and return to run
Physio by trade. Scales every block around whatever you are coming back from, and leads the group that walks the hills on purpose.
Marcus Bell
Head coach — strength
Runs the floor above the arch. Teaches the barbell to people who arrived certain they would hate it, which is most of them.
[ SIX YEARS ]
Four moments, none of them a rebrand.
Four people and a lamppost
A Tuesday loop of the park with a route drawn on the back of a receipt. The lamppost on the corner was the regroup point, and it still is.
2019
The strength floor
We took the room above the arch and put six racks in it, then spent a year teaching the barbell to runners who had never held one.
2021
Nine pace groups
The Tuesday run split properly for the first time, from 4:30 per kilometre down to a run-walk that finishes the same route. Nobody has been dropped since.
2023
Three hundred and twelve
Six coached sessions a week, one flat membership, forty-one first marathons, and the same coffee stop on Sundays.
2026