The running scene across
Louisville.

Louisville · City-wide · Mon, Wed, Thu · 6:30 PM

Derby City Run Club

Next run · Mon, Sep 21 · 6:30 PM

Louisville's biggest social run club, founded in September 2013 to "promote fitness, friends, and community" — a free 5K-ish run three nights a week at 6:30 PM, each from a different host brewery, with drink specials and food afterwards. Membership is free, every pace is welcome (walkers included) and dogs are encouraged. The hosts change — the Monday taproom on Bardstown Road that everyone still calls Great Flood rebranded as Big Rock Bar & Brew in 2026 — so check the club's Instagram for this week's start spots before you head out.

Louisville · City-wide · Sat · 9:00 AM

Joe Creason parkrun

Next run · Sat, Sep 19 · 9:00 AM

Louisville's free, timed, volunteer-run weekly 5K — every Saturday at 9:00 AM from Joe Creason Park off Trevilian Way, across from the zoo. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate; register once with parkrun and bring a scannable barcode for a time. The group heads to a local café for coffee afterwards.

Louisville · City-wide · Sat

Louisville Race Club

"Run as you are" is the motto: a twice-monthly social run-or-walk from Gravely Brewing Co. on Baxter Avenue, the first and third Saturday of the month, with one-mile and three-mile route options and a discounted beer afterwards. Runners and walkers of all paces, ages and backgrounds are welcome, strollers and dogs included. The start moves earlier in summer to beat the heat (the listings say 11:00 AM gather / 11:15 AM start most of the year and 8:00 AM in summer), so confirm the time on the club's Instagram.

New Albany · City-wide · Sat, Sun

Pacers & Racers Running Group

Next run · Sat, Sep 19 · 7:30 AM

The free weekend group runs from Pacers & Racers, Southern Indiana's running and walking store (New Albany and Jeffersonville). Saturday mornings at 7:30 AM from a start that changes week to week — the store's running-group page names each one, most recently the Floyd County YMCA parking lot in New Albany — plus a Sunday-morning group whose weekly schedule lives on a linked sheet. "Everyone of all abilities, runners and walkers are welcome."

Louisville · City-wide · Tue, Thu, Sun

Swag's Run/Walk Club

Next run · Sun, Sep 20 · 7:00 AM

The free run/walk club from Swag's Sport Shoes, South Louisville's family-run running store, built around Iroquois Park: a Tuesday 6:30 AM "Wake Up Run" from Sunergos Coffee on Woodlawn Avenue with 3- and 5-mile routes, a Thursday 6:30 AM no-drop trail run from the Iroquois Amphitheater lot, and a Sunday 7:00 AM run/walk from the amphitheater with 3-mile or 6+-mile options. The club's Saturday long run starts across the river at Big Four Station in Jeffersonville (listed separately).

Jeffersonville · City-wide · Sat · 7:00 AM

Swag's Saturday Long Run

Next run · Sat, Sep 19 · 7:00 AM

The Saturday long run of Swag's Run/Walk Club, the free club from Louisville's Swag's Sport Shoes — 7:00 AM from Big Four Station on the Indiana side of the Big Four pedestrian bridge in downtown Jeffersonville, on a ten-mile route along the Ohio River Greenway and across the bridge that you are welcome to shorten or extend. All paces; the store's weekday runs are on the Kentucky side (listed under Louisville).