tl;dr: evening running/social trip to Middlesex Fells, an awesome local green space. Run 4–6 miles and then hang out and eat some pizza.

Join us for an evening run of your choice of:

• 4 mi option: this loop
• 6 mi option: Reservoir Trail

This will be a no-drop run: we will split into groups, and each group will run at a pace that's comfortable for everybody.

We'll leave MIT at 3:15pm, meet at the Sheepfold parking lot at 3:30pm, and start running around 3:45pm. Once we're back at Sheepfold, we'll eat some pizza!

Fees: there are no fees associated with this trip — pizza is on MITOC! Sign-ups are required so we know how much food to get.

Transportation: use this rideshare spreadsheet if you can provide a ride or you need a ride. There is also Uber/Lyft, public transportation, and you could also bike and/or run. If you're providing your own transportation, please put your name down on the 2nd sheet.

Gear: if you are not familiar with navigating in the Fells, we require that you bring a cell phone. This is a no-drop run and we will stick together, but it's good to have a cell phone for additional safety.

Prerequisites: This trip is perfect as an introductory trail run, but you should be in decent physical shape and have non-zero hiking experience. As a rough guideline, you should: be comfortable running 4 miles on flat road, and have done a hike before. Prior trail running experience is not required.

More on MITOC trail running

We organize trail runs nearly every week, but we only announce major events (like this one!) to the full MITOC list. If you're interested in MITOC trail running events in general, please join the mitoc-mountainrunning mailing list to hear announcements of all of our runs!

If you're on Strava, you can join the MITOC Trail Runners group.

If you're interested in sharing rides to local trail runs, join this Messenger group chat.

Capacity and waitlist

If the trip fills up and you're a current MIT student, please add yourself to the waitlist; we'll probably be able to expand the trip size to accommodate you.