There was beer and cake to celebrate the run club’s second anniversary at the brewery. As runners, finishing out a two-or-four-mile run, pulled up to The Veil on Forest Hill Avenue on a mid-May evening, Sam Jones offered slices of a homemade lemon-blueberry cake carefully shaped in the number “2.” While Jones organized the Southside Striders run club a year before, partnering with the brewery in 2024, participation immediately swelled when invitations for a free beer after every run went out.