Welcome to Santiago Runners Club


History


The Santiago Runners Club was started by a group of friends in 1991 after their first participation in the New York Marathon in 1990 in which 17 Chileans participated. This small group of runners was united in their love of running and competing in long distance races. The club was found in the Vitacura municipality (part of the greater Santiago, Chile community) as a non-profit organization with the objectives to plan for their memberships running events, trips and various activities related to their mutual passion for running.

Among their founders and actual membership are distinguished and prominent professionals, businessmen, executives, and athletes, some of which are well known internationally.

The Club has well over a 200 members that have the common bond of running between them. They subscribe to a Declaration of Principals based on honesty and gentlemanly behavior. Their membership is committed to respect other competitors, respect the integrity of the race courses, to encourage the love and propagation of running, and gentlemanlike behavior.

In addition to running, the Santiago Runners Club ( S.R.C.) has organized mountain climbing events. Among these successful climbs are the prominent Chilean mountain peaks of El Plomo and Aconcagua and the hills overlooking the municipality of Providencia in Santiago, Chile.

After the formation of the S.R.C., the Club actively participated in creation of the first 10K organized races in Vitacura. The S.R.C was responsible for creating a running friendly atmosphere in the streets of Santiago and surrounding municipalities and, without a doubt, they were instrumental in elevating the image of the marathon in Santiago, and throughout Chile

The S.R.C. has actively participated in the foot-racing calendar events, and has organized their own running events. They have made the marathon a respected and known sport throughout Chile. Their members have participated in national and international marathons throughout the world. Among these are New, York, Boston, Chicago, Twin Cities, Paris, Stockholm, London, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington Marine Corps Marathon, Buenos Aires, San Diego and Berlin, as well as many other marathons.

The S.R.C. is an official representative of the New York City Road Runners Club, the organizers of the traditional annual marathon of New York that takes place in November to benefit the Organization Against Cancer.

The S.R.C. Declaration of Principals

The Santiago Runners Club is a private non-profit corporation, that aspires to unit individuals that are dedicated to running in the streets, on the track, in parks, and open areas of our city, and throughout Chile for those individuals that share the following ethical principals of our sport.

We run because we believe in the virtues of healthy physical exercise; we appreciate sporting activities as recreational activity and we place high value in that the habitual practice of these activities will produce high moral individual values, and will contribute to the improvement of the individual and our society.

The constant, tenacious dedicated training and spirit of self-sacrifice are the characteristics of athletes that run and train for long distances. These are the same virtues that have served to build great nations and are evident in the great figures in the history of humanity. These are the same characteristics that motivate and give life to our Club.

We are an association of individuals that uphold and profess these virtues. We value these virtue and others that promote in the individual a sense of honesty in the norms that rule our sporting events as well as promote the respect for the all participants in our sport. In general we promote a noble and gentlemanly behavior as the normal constant way to conduct ourselves during our competitive sporting events.

a) During a competitive race we will never deviate from the official racing course in order to gain a competitive advantage.

b) We will never interfere, in any way, with another competitor that might hinder or slow down their effort.

c) We will provide equal opportunity to other competitors. If there is a difference of opinion or conflict with another competitor in a questionable situation, we will yield to our fellow competitor.

d) We never sacrifice our gentlemanly or noble behavior in order to gain a personal triumph.

e) We will never made a false testimony about the any circumstances revolving about an athletic event in which we participate, or in which we have an interest.

f) We will always relate our personal accomplishments with modesty, judiciously and without exaggeration.

g) We will always be willing to contribute our experience and knowledge to benefit other athletes, and give them assistance in improving their physical condition.

The Santiago Runners Club dedicates itself only to athletic activities, as its name implies. The Club subscribes to our principals as enumerated heretofore, and will provide tolerant requirements for membership for individuals of all races, creeds, and social status, religious beliefs and political affiliations without restriction. Members will not use the Club to promote values or interests that are not related to sport activities or the principals, values and virtues of those expressed in our Declaration of Principals.