A pack of eight runners began their jog at Enjoy Oxford and followed the pre-planned route down Main Street, over the Black Covered Bridge, onto the Oxford Area Trails (OATS) through Leonard Howell Park and then toward Bonham Road until, one by one, they ended up at Skipper’s Pub back on High Street.
Some were sweaty and others out of breath, but all of them regrouped after 15 to 20 minutes with smiles on their faces by the Pub Run sign outside of the bar.
They don’t always end up at Skipper’s, though; sometimes it’s Left Field Tavern, and before it closed in early August, Church St. Social was a popular stopping spot, too.
Bill Levenderis, an avid runner since the pandemic started in 2020 and part of the Tuesday night Pub Run for roughly three years, said the club started in 2019.
The Tuesday night Pub Run club poses for their pre-run photo.
“All you gotta do is show up,” he said. “Walk. Run. Jog … and then get together for merriment afterwards.”
The goal of the weekly Pub Run is to exercise with others who like to run or walk in the Oxford community, according to the website, but with a fun twist.
After someone attends 10 times, they get a free T-shirt.
Savannah Perry, a graduate student earning her English master of fine arts in creative writing, said she’s been part of the running club since last fall when her friend asked her to join. Perry showed up to this week’s run in one of the free T-shirts.
“[My friend’s] graduated now, [but I kept coming back] for the community,” Perry said. “It's nice having someone to run with.”
She added that her favorite part was finding the different routes to run on campus. The different options can lead down slant walk into campus, onto the OATS trails or up and around T.J. Maxx on Locust Street.
“You get in the habit of running the same loop over and over again,” she said, “so it's nice to get some exposure to different places.”
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Savannah Perry (left) and Mark Johnson (right) pose in their 10th run free T-shirt in front of Enjoy Oxford before their Tuesday night Pub Run.
Judy Eaton, a 65-year-old walker and a Miami University employee in the research office, said after a year and a half in the club, she decided she likes the route through campus the most because the sidewalks are the most reliable.
“I’ve worked at the university for 23 years, and [someone] told me about [the Pub Run], and I was like ‘I never heard of that,’” she said. “I like to walk for exercise, so I said, ‘Yeah, let’s do this.’”
Eaton added that after her ankle injury, she’s limited in the physical exercise she can do, so walking with a group of people or even one other person and building camaraderie is nice.
“It's [not just] for people that are really hardcore training – it's for everybody,” Levenderis said. “... If you want to walk, there's walkers. Sometimes there's more walkers, and sometimes we've had people with strollers, with babies. So here we got a flavor of everything, and everyone's invited.”
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