Easy Pace Run Club Keeping It Accessible and Social in Singapore

A Personal Diary That Became a Community

Before Easy Pace Run Club was a crew, it was a caption. Kavan, a road and trail runner, fashion model, and student, had been documenting his runs on Instagram under the handle @easypaceonly. The account was personal, unpretentious, and rooted in a simple idea: running does not have to be hard to be worth doing. Those two words, easy pace, carried a quiet philosophy. They described not just a speed but an attitude toward the sport itself. When Kavan and his friend Shane, an entrepreneur and runner, decided to channel that energy into something bigger, the name needed no debate. @easypaceonly became the club's official Instagram page, and Easy Pace Run Club was born in July 2024. The transition from personal diary to public community was almost seamless, because the spirit was already there, embedded in every post Kavan had ever shared. What strikes you about that origin story is how organic it feels. There was no grand plan, no formal pitch, no committee. Two friends who liked running and liked people decided to put those two things together on the streets of Singapore. The club's founding is a reminder that the best running communities rarely start with a business model. They start with a personality, a habit, and an open invitation.

The Philosophy Behind the Name

Easy Pace Run Club is built on a conviction that accessibility is not a compromise. In a running culture that often rewards speed, mileage, and performance benchmarks, the club plants its flag somewhere quieter and, arguably, more radical. The premise is straightforward: running should be open to everyone, and the pace at which you move should never be a barrier to belonging. That philosophy is not just marketing language. It is written into the structure of every run the club organises. There are no qualifying times, no pace groups that quietly exclude slower runners, no unspoken hierarchy that makes newcomers feel like they have something to prove. The name on the Instagram page, @easypaceonly, functions almost like a manifesto. Only one gear here. Come as you are. Shane and Kavan have both lived the reality that running is not always easy to enter. Singapore has a lively and growing run culture, but it can sometimes feel intimidating to someone lacing up for the first time and looking around at club runners logging serious kilometres before sunrise. Easy Pace Run Club exists as a counterpoint to that pressure. It says: your first kilometre is as welcome here as your five-hundredth. That message, delivered consistently through both the club's runs and its social media presence, has shaped an identity that feels genuinely distinct in the city's running landscape.

Saturday Mornings at Marina Boulevard

The club's signature run takes place every Saturday morning, with the crew gathering at Marina Boulevard at 07:30. The location is one of Singapore's most recognisable urban waterfronts, a stretch of road that frames the city's skyline and offers a route that is as visually rewarding as it is accessible. For early risers, this part of the island carries a particular energy in the morning hours, the air still relatively cool, the light soft, the city not yet fully awake. The runs are kept deliberately short in distance, which is itself a statement of intent. Easy Pace Run Club is not building athletes through gruelling long-distance sessions. It is building a habit, a social rhythm, and a community around the simple act of showing up on a Saturday and moving together. Short distances lower the barrier to entry. They make it easier for someone who has not run in months, or ever, to decide that this Saturday is the one where they give it a try. The easy pace is maintained throughout. Nobody is racing ahead. Nobody is silently competitive in a way that fractures the group. The run is a conversation as much as it is a workout, and that dual purpose is entirely intentional. Shane and Kavan designed it that way because they understand that people return to runs not just for the physical benefit but for the social one. When a run feels like catching up with friends rather than a test of fitness, it becomes something you look forward to rather than something you talk yourself into.

Open Doors, No Fees

Membership at Easy Pace Run Club is open to everyone, and there are no fees involved. That combination, genuinely open membership with no financial barrier, is worth pausing on. Running is often celebrated as a democratic sport, one that requires nothing more than a pair of shoes and the willingness to move. But even within running communities, there can be subtle gatekeeping, through gear culture, through social dynamics, through the assumption that you already know the vocabulary of the sport. Easy Pace Run Club strips those layers away. You do not need to apply, prove a fitness level, or pay a subscription to join a Saturday run. You find the Instagram page, you see where the crew is meeting, and you show up. That simplicity is harder to achieve than it sounds, because it requires the founders to actively cultivate a culture of welcome rather than just declaring one. From what Shane and Kavan have built, the culture appears to match the promise. The no-fee model also reflects something about the founders' motivation. This is not a commercial project dressed up as a community. Easy Pace Run Club began as a personal passion made public, and it has stayed true to that origin. The club runs on the energy and time of its founders and its members, on the goodwill of people who show up on a Saturday morning because they genuinely want to be there.

Running Singapore Together

Singapore is a city that takes sport seriously. The island's parks, reservoirs, and waterfronts are threaded with running routes, and on any given weekend morning you will find runners of every level and background moving through them. Marina Boulevard, where Easy Pace Run Club meets, sits at the intersection of the city's financial district and its waterfront parklands, a setting that manages to feel both urban and open at the same time. For a club founded on accessibility, this location carries its own symbolism. The waterfront is one of Singapore's great democratic spaces, a place where office workers, tourists, weekend warriors, and serious athletes all share the same stretch of pavement. Easy Pace Run Club slots naturally into that environment. The crew is part of the neighbourhood fabric of Saturday morning Marina Boulevard, another group of people moving through the city together, finding their rhythm in one of the most recognisable corners of the island. Kavan's background in trail running adds a dimension to the club's potential that is still being explored. Singapore's trail options, from MacRitchie Reservoir to Bukit Timah, are modest by international standards but beloved by local runners who treat them as an escape from the city's density. Whether Easy Pace Run Club eventually ventures off the road and onto those trails remains to be seen, but the founders' combined range as runners means that the club's identity is not boxed in by a single terrain or format.

An Invitation Worth Taking

Easy Pace Run Club is still young, having launched in July 2024, but the foundation it has built in its first months reflects the clarity of its founding idea. Two friends with a shared belief that running should be easier to enter, more social in practice, and less defined by performance have created something that fills a genuine gap. Singapore's running scene has no shortage of competitive clubs and serious training groups. It is richer for also having a crew that shows up on Saturday mornings and asks nothing more of you than that you show up too. If you have been telling yourself you will start running when you are fitter, or that you will join a run club when you are faster, Easy Pace Run Club is the answer to both of those deferrals. The whole point is that you do not need to be either. You show up at Marina Boulevard at 07:30 on a Saturday, you find Shane and Kavan and whoever else has found their way there that morning, and you run at an easy pace. That is the entire offer. For a lot of people, it turns out to be exactly enough.