In cities around the globe, runners are forming crews. It’s an otherwise solitary activity, running. All that is really needed is a body and some shoes. But for members of these crews, the activity of running transcends personal objectives. Less concerned with burning calories or completing training log entries, for these crews, running is really about family.

“The community is far more important than the actual physical things that we do,” says Charlie Dark, poet, writer, DJ, and founder of London’s Run Dem Crew, who are featured in the video above along with the Paris Running Club and New York City’s Orchard Street Runners. “People feel that they need to belong to something.”

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