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!

See all our albums.


Get to know Lei, our March 2008 featured member:

Profession: Jobless because I spent too much time attending CR workouts instead of going to work. Well, seriously, I was working in the financial software industry before I took on the big trips... Read more.

See all our Featured Members.

Workouts

We have three weekly workouts:

Speed Intervals

Track workout. We divide into two groups according to speed. We move indoors during the winter.

 

Tempo/Hills/Group Runs

We meet at the MIT outdoor track (unless otherwise posted on our Calendar) for a workout or a fun run. We move indoors during the winter.

Long Run

Anywhere between 3 to 20 miles by the Charles River. (Sometimes along the Boston Marathon course.) Members coordinate to prepare water stops.

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.

And read news from RRCA:


Running Somerville. Running Cambridge and running Cambridge, MA or Cambridge running. CRC. We usually run in Cambridge. Cambridge running. --- Marcelo Coca Perraillon.



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!):

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...

April 2008

Congratulations to the many (15 or 20?) CR runners who ran Boston!

We're moving outdoors on April 1st! See the Workouts section.

March 2008

Stay tuned about future CR events: our 10-year anniversary HUGE party is coming soon. Read more...

February 2008

Read an article about us in Boston Now.

January 2008

See our new Featured Member section. Next month we will profile Lei, who is currently in the South Pole doing some crazy things.

Don't miss our next theme run: Getting to Know Newton Hills on January 26th...

Happy New Year! Don't forget that we're celebrating the Holidays on January 5th...

If all the snow is freezing your (head), get a hat from Barbara.

December 2007

Happy Holidays! See our Calendar for workout changes.

We just reached a milestone: we now have 100 active members!!

We're (finally) moving indoors on Monday, December 3rd.

Barbara is raising funds with her knitting again. Take a look at her nice stuff here.

November 2007

No workout on Wednesday, Nov 21. Happy Thanksgiving!

    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 check out fun marathon destinations or destination marathons at marathondestinations.com. There are lots of scenic marathons.