Mill Cities 2022
- Weekly Club Announcements -
SRR Membership Interest Week - September 15th through September 21st, special events, raffles, prizes, food, discounts - Adidas will be at the Squirrel Scramble that week!
Need to get your SRR race kit ready? The SRR store is stocked and ready for your purchase! Get your SRR singlet, hats, gloves, or classic hoodie and be ready for your spring race!
Event Calendar - This is the place to keep track of weekly runs, races, and other club events. We’ve got a lot going on! View the SRR Event Calendar (opens in new window) and better yet, add the SRR Calendar to your Google Calendars and never miss an event!
If you are running a race let SRR know here - Races - so you can connect with other SRRs and maybe organize a meetup. If you don't see your race on the list, go ahead and add it!
Long Runs Groups: Check out the long run web site for info on the different groups and route around town
Check out all of SRR's weekly runs! We have 7 different weekly runs Follow SRR on Instagram, Facebook, and Strava to get run updates and join the email list!
New to SRR and ready to become a full member? Membership has its privileges! Become a member today: Sign up Here
Run with SRR at these upcoming events!
Northshore RunFest 10k, Salem MA - Sunday, September 7th - the next race on the USATF Road Grand Prix Series calendar
Somerville Homeless Coalition 5k - Saturday, October 4th - a great local race. The SRR tent will be there!
Chicago Marathon - A very large SRR group will be there this year! Post-race meet-up info coming soon.
Baystate Marathon - Sunday, October 19th, Lowell - The SRR tent will be there cheering on all the SRR running
Newburyport Half - Sunday October 26th, Newburyport - The last race of the 2025 USATF Road Grand Prix
Cambridge Half Marathon, Sunday, November 2nd - A huge SRR contingent will be there!
Gobble Gobble Gobble, Thanksgiving Day, Davis Square - SRR's Thanksgiving Day race, celebrating its 29th year!
41st Annual Mill Cities Relay, Sunday December 8th, Nashua to Lawrence - SAVE THE DATE - THE EVENT OF THE YEAR. Let's go win title #4!
What's Happening?
Welcome to the website of the Somerville Road Runners, Somerville Massachusetts' oldest running club. Bordering Boston and Cambridge, we're a motley crew that works hard, but doesn't let that get in the way of having a good time. SRR is a charitable, non-profit organization that sponsors many events a year including weekly runs, track workouts and annual races. Our club welcomes new members of all abilities. Read on to find out what we've been up to lately.
Mission Statement:
Somerville Road Runners is a non-profit athletic, social, and charitable organization committed to supporting local runners. We aim to provide a healthy, inclusive, and social environment for all members to enjoy the lifetime benefits of running. We carry out our mission through free weekly runs, competitive running events, charitable volunteer opportunities, community involvement, and social gatherings in the greater Somerville area.
Inclusivity Statement:
We welcome people of all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, racial-ethnic identities, religions, socioeconomic statuses, abilities, body types, paces, and running experience levels.
We believe in a culture that honors the diversity of life circumstances, identities, perspectives, and interests of its community members. We commit to maintaining a safe and welcoming community and to continuously improving our organization to better align with these values.
If you ever feel that SRR is not living up to our mission, our inclusivity statement, or are concerned about the conduct of any of our members or community participants please reach out to any member of our executive board and we will take action to ensure that our values are upheld. Click here to view the SRR Code of Conduct.
Weekly Runs
Need some running motivation during the week? We have you covered. Somerville Road Runners offer several organized runs throughout the week. Monday’s we run out of the Burren in East Somerville, Tuesday’s, Track at Tufts, Wednesday morning, no frills run from West Somerville, Wednesday evening, the Mighty Squirrel in Waltham hosts our fun runs and and Thursday we run out of Casey's in East Somerville.
Monday
SRR hosts a free weekly 5K Fun Run on Monday nights at 6:45 PM at KENNEY PARK in Davis Sq, Somerville. Come join a big crowd of friendly runners of all levels every Monday night in Davis Square!
WEDNESDAY - PM
The Squirrel Scramble
SRR and Mighty Squirrel have partnered to bring a free fun run open to anyone and everyone west of the city. You don’t need to be a club member to participate. Just show up at by 6:30pm at Mighty Squirrel’s brewery and taproom in Waltham (411 Waverley Oaks Rd, Waltham, MA). The run begins at 6:45pm.
Everyone will gather inside or outside the taproom, depending on weather. The route varies, but will always be between 3.5 and 4.5 miles. And plenty of great freshly-tapped beer will be awaiting you in the taproom when you’re done. More details…
Wednesday - AM
Wednesday Morning Run
Depart at 6:30 a.m. from the corner of Broadway and Alewife Brook Pkwy (right by the Stop and Shop sign) for 5.25 morning miles. All paces welcome More details…
Thursday
Every Thursday evening - Run starts at 7:15PM from the corner of Broadway and Melvin St in East Somerville
Speed + Winter Hill = Roadkill
Storm Through Somerville
Snow, rain, heat, blizzards, swarms of locusts; we’ll be there in any conditions! The SRR 4.06 mile Thursday Night Run happens every week at 7:15 PM! Wanna run it? Great! It's FREE! You can check out the official course route. More details…
Weekend Long Runs
Long runs of varied paces and distances :
Sub-7 Group (under 7:00 pace)
3 Hour Marathon Group (8:00 pace & faster)
9ish Pace Group
10ish Pace Group
11ish Pace Group
No Expectations Pace Group (12:00+)
For information go to Weekend Run or contact the Long Run Coordinators
SRR is proud to partner with Pride on Foot.
Pride on Foot, LLC (POF) is an advocacy organization for the running and fitness communities. We work with run clubs, race directors, and fitness groups who want to understand how to be more accepting and inclusive of Transgender, Queer-gender, Intersex, Gender non-conforming, and Non-binary people. Through education and policy changes we create affirming, inviting, and safe spaces where everyone can be free to workout while living an authentic life.
TRACK - SEP 2nd - 7:00 PM at TUFTS
Track Workouts and Information
This is a late breaking change. Until a short while ago I thought we were going to go on hiatus. But we get at least a 1-week reprieve. So we do have a workout this week.
Tatyana Podznyakova Workout:
This is one continuous run in which you alternate the pace every 800 meters between THRESHOLD and MARATHON pace. So, start off at THRESHOLD pace, for 800, switch to MARATHON for 800, back to THRESHOLD, etc.
The total distance is up to you but should be at least 4800 meters. That will be 6 x 800. Roughly 3 miles. However if you are doing a good deal of weekly mileage right now, I urge you to try to continue the workout and for another mile (2 x 800) That will be 6400 meters (not 6000 as I mistakenly wrote on the track page)
The point of this workout is to force yourself to be able to recover at speed. Marathon pace is not a jog. It should be your go marathon pace or the marathon pace that corresponds to your THRESHOLD pace on the Daniels chart. If you do not know what that is I will bring a copy of the chart for you to look it up at track.
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Photo Credit: Tom Cole