Auckland Joggers Club

Guesstimate run 🏃🏽‍♀️ ⏱️

Our joggers have just set off for the annual event. Guess your time for the course before you set off, no phones or watches allowed, just good old fashioned pacing.

It’s not about who comes first, closest to their guessed time wins!

Who will win this year…?!

Round the Bays 2026 🏃🏽‍♀️

Well done to everyone who strolled down Tāmaki Drive on this beautiful Sunday

See you all next year!

Auckland Joggers meets every Tuesday and Thursday 17:30 for a social stroll from Cornwall Park

Good Luck to everyone running Round The Bays! 🏃🏽‍♀️💨

Beautiful day in Tāmaki Makaurau for a Walk/Jog/Run/Roll

Give us a wave at the start line!

Are you running Round the Bays this weekend?🏃🏼

Round the Bays grew rapidly in attendance from relatively humble beginnings on the 18th of March 1973, when around 1000 runners ran the seven-mile event from the Auckland Town Hall to Madills Farm, “the largest ever assembled for one run in New Zealand” according to the Auckland Star. Most in attendance had not filled out an official entry form, available exclusively from the pages of the Star.

The run along Tamaki Drive was actually one of two events organised by the Auckland Joggers Club as part of the broader ‘Fitness for Living’ public health campaign. Waitakere Walks organised by famed New Zealand athletics coach Arthur Lydiard formed the other. It seems only the far more successful Round the Bays event continued, growing explosively in attendance and continuing long after the end of the Fitness for Living campaign.

By the tenth event in 1982, the Auckland Star estimated participation at 80,000 people. If accurate, this figure claimed a staggering participation rate of close to one-in-ten Aucklanders (official statistics reported the population of regional Auckland in 1981 at nearly 830,000 people). True attendance figures are impossible to know owing to the high rate of informal participation, a matter which perhaps only serves to underline the level of enthusiasm which developed for Round the Bays. Some called Round the Bays “The Greatest Run on Earth,” a title used for a 1980 documentary about the event.

Watch the documentary here : https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-greatest-run-on-earth-1980
NZ On Screen

Image: Round the Bays run on Tāmaki Drive, 1982. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1021-0371. Photographer: Eric Young.

Pride Run 🏳️‍🌈

Last week we dressed in our colourful best to support Auckland Pride and our community

This is one of our fabulous walking groups with their outfits

Did you know we have a number of walking packs as well as running packs, suitable for all ages and abilities!

Get in touch for more info

Bingo Run! Fab evening running around Auckland to tick off the bingo cards! 🏃🏽‍♀️💨

Looking for a fun place to get fit in central Auckland? Struggling to motivate yourself?

Come along on Cornwall Park, Tues and Thurs at 17:30 to see what we’re about!

DM for more details!

Want to get into running in 2026? Want to do Round the Bays?

Join our beginners running programme to build up to run 8km in 6 weeks

With 2 x weekly coaching, build up your endurance with a group of like minded runners.

Any questions please send us a DM

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Auckland has so many Maunga to run up, we’re spoilt for choice!
With great company and spectacular views what more do you need! 🏃🏻⛰️

Fun morning volunteering at our local Cornwall Park Parkrun 🙌🏼 well done to all the runners braving the Auckland weather!

Join us for our next beginners programme. Starting 14th October.
Whether you’re new to running or returning, join us for a 8 week programme on a Tuesday and Thursday evening with experienced coaches to build up to 8km.
Get fit for summer and experience the ‘runners high’ everyone is talking about!
Send us a DM today 🏃🏽‍♀️💨

Great night had by all at Auckland Joggers Midwinter party. Theme was ‘think bright!’

Awesome to see everyone’s dance moves and bright outfits, all fuelled by margaritas 🍸💃🏽