Welcome to the Ames Area Running Club!

The Ames Area Running Club (AARC) is a union of 100+ area runners with the purpose to promote better health and friendship through all levels of running, jogging and walking.

Just click the links above to learn more about the Ames Area Running Club!

AARC members produce the following:

• Run for the Roses, a 5k and 10k road race, is a combined effort with the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority to raise money for arthritis research. The event occurs every fall.
  
• Social Functions
  
• Weekly Running Groups
  
• 15% discounts at Fitness Sports of Des Moines
• Car pooling to out of town events
  
• Frozen Foot Circuit, a gathering of AARC members in the winter months. The group meets at a member's home for a run or walk of various distances (1 - 7 miles). Afterwards they have refreshments and socialize.

AARC Officers