What's better than road running? Trail running! What's better than trail running? Winter trail running!

Join us on this local afternoon trip on Sunday to Middlesex Fells, the perfect place for your first trail run. We'll run a scenic 4-mile route through the Fells at an easy pace. This will be a no-drop run: we will run at a pace that is comfortable for everybody on the trip.

We'll leave MIT at 1:30pm, start running around 2:00pm, and return to campus later in the afternoon. The temperature should be perfect for an introductory trail run: about 45°F.

This run is part of an "Introduction to Winter Trail Running" series. We're planning on organizing a number of events over the spring semester with the goal of introducing (road) runners to trail running and winter trail running, starting with local workouts (like winter road runs and Harvard Stadiums) and trail runs (at the fells, like this run), and working our way up to a trail race and mountain runs in New Hampshire.

If you're interested in hearing about future trail runs and workouts that are a part of this Introduction to Winter Trail Running series, please fill out this form. If you're interested in MITOC trail running events in general, join the mitoc-mountainrunning mailing list.

Prerequisites

This trip is a perfect introductory trail run, but it's not a great trip for those who don't run at all.

If you can comfortably run 4 miles on flat road at an 10:00 min/mi pace, then this trip will be fine for you.

Logistics

There will be an optional (but recommended) pre-trip meeting over Zoom on Saturday night, so we can answer any questions people have about trail running, how to dress, etc.