Welcome to Community Running!

We are a fun running club in the Boston-metro area. We offer coached workouts each week and year round. Our workouts are perfect for everybody, regardless of age, experience or ability. Our core membership is made up of "middle-to-back-of-the-pack" runners who run for fun, fitness, and often for a good cause. We currently have about 100 active members and many more who train with us during the indoors season.

We are accessible on the MIT campus track facilities in Cambridge, with ample free parking. We utilize the MIT indoor track during the winter. The MIT Cambridge campus is minutes away from Boston, Somerville, Allston... Community Running members also volunteer together. Learn more about the club and read why you should really run with us!

Get to know Allan, one of our featured members:

Top benefits of CR: The people - many of my good friends in Boston I've met through CR and I admit that I am amused by many of the people at the club. Everybody is so nice and welcoming! Also, significant, marked improvement and really nice coaches that seem personally invested in you. Read more...

See all our Featured Members.

Workouts

We have three weekly workouts:

Learn more about our workouts.

Resources

We have a great stretching guide, information about injuries, links to other useful sites, and maps of running routes around the Boston area, including our usual warm-up loop around MIT and our long run route along the Charles River. We do some of our running in Cambridge. If you're running Somerville, check our maps around Davis Sq. (Somerville, Medford, and the Mystic Lake) and Tufts. Visit the Resources section.

Also, try out our running-specific search engine powered by Google. For more info, go here.   Examples: ITB, predict, foot pain, yoga, stretching, motion control.

Running Somerville. Running Cambridge and running Cambridge, MA or Cambridge running. CRC. We usually run in Cambridge. Cambridge running. --- This site was created by Marcelo Coca Perraillon. I no longer mantain the site but you can still reach me here: marcelo@communityrunning.org. Or here: www.nber.org/~cocam

Please see the Events section for the latest announcements, workout changes, gatherings and more. You can also join our mailing list, subscribe to our RSS feeds, and search our website (examples: workouts, membership, questions):

Some monthly highlights (see the Events section for all club happenings!):

April 2009

Monday and Wednesday workouts are moving back outdoors!

Starting on Monday, April 6, we will be meeting at the MIT outdoor track at 7:00pm.

On Wednesday, April 8, we will meet at the MIT outdoor track at 6:30pm. Check back frequently as the location of our Wednesday night workouts may vary.

December 2008

Please note that we have to cancel most workouts after mid-December. Read more...

November 2008

We're moving indoors in December!

We have another special run in JP on December 13th.

Don't miss our special long run around Lexington, MA, on Saturday, November 15th. Read more...

October 2008

Please note that we changed the location of our Wednesday runs until we move indoors (the Esplanade is getting too dark). Please check out the Announcements.

September 2008

Please note that Monday workouts are moving back to MIT's outdoors track on September 8th. Saturday long runs are starting at 7 am until the end of September. See the Workouts section for details.

August 2008

The Grand Prix 2008 is almost over but the Fall marathons are fast approaching. Join us for some of our long runs on Saturdays.

July 2008

Don't forget that the Grand Prix 2008 is still running.

We need volunteers to do the Saturday water support. Please email us if you can help!

June 2008

We're doing the 26x1 relay race in Marshfield on June 28th. Read more...

Don't forget that starting on Monday, June 2nd, we're meeting at the Fresh Pond track (Danehy Park) in Cambridge for our Monday workouts. See the Workouts section for mode details...

Due to forecasted storms the Trivia run was moved to June 7th. Learn more...

May 2008

We changed our Wednesday workouts! Please check out the Workouts section.

Don't forget that our 10th anniversary party is on May 10th. It's going to be BIG! Read more...

    Curious about old news? Visit Memory Lane

Join Us!

Feel free to give us a try. Please check out the Workouts section for information about our workouts. Once you realize how fun we are you can join us as a member. We don't have any eligibility criteria other than the desire to run. Browse this web site for more information and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any question.

Don't forget to donate your old running shoes to our shoe donation program (shoe recycling). And chon destinations or destination marathons at marathondestinations.com. There are lots of scenic marathons.