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Saint Edmund Pacers is a running club based in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The origins of the club go back to 1978 with keep fit sessions for Ladies and Gentlemen organised at the Sports Centre in Bury St Edmunds. To compliment the sessions the coach suggested that the participants met up on Sunday mornings to do some jogging.
In 1980, during a spate of suspected arson attacks in Bury St Edmunds, the Sports Centre was burnt down. Anxious to keep the keep fit sessions going, it was agreed to hire a local school gymnasium. However, the school did not hire the gymnasium out to individuals, only to bona fide clubs. Hence the Saint Edmund Pacers was born, primarily a fitness club with separate sessions during the week for ladies and gentlemen but continuing with the jogging sessions on Sunday mornings.
As the running boom hit Britain so the jogging developed to running and gradually the fitness side of the club died out. With the opening of the all weather running track attached to the rebuilt sports centre the club is now back where it all began.
The club now caters for all standards of runners from novice to internationals and all distances from the Sunday morning jog up to the full marathon.
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