This is an international community of people who share the desire to be fit and active. We encourage members to begin and maintain healthy lifestyles, primarily through running or walking, but also through other activities such as biking, swimming, hiking, etc.

We are a diverse family--young and old, slow and fast, novice and veteran, short distance and ultra runners and walkers--with a common bond. We move for the joy of it and because, in the process of running and walking athletically, we find ourselves.

Our mission is to aid others in their quest for a healthy lifestyle, through on-line support and in person at race encounters around the world. We strive here to share our experience and knowledge in order to help other runners and walkers and to provide positive encouragement and joy in everyone's efforts. In doing so, we become better individuals and a better community. When we reach out to help others discover the joy in their running or chosen activity, we find the best in ourselves.

We observe netiquette guidelines that foster warm, friendly, positive support and a reverence for the inherent worth and dignity of one another.

Formerly called the Penguin Brigade, this group originally was founded in 1996 by John "the Penguin" Bingham and Karen Bingham. Owner: Karen Havill Bingham