SRR Track

You must be a SRR member to participate in the workouts regularly but if you are considering track/SRR and would like to check us out, you are welcome to come to a session as a guest.

Jan - Feb 2026:

These workouts are held at the MIT Indoor Track (located inside the Zesiger Center Building on the 3rd floor). Just enter the building (no earlier than 7:00) and tell the attendant at the main desk that you are with the Somerville Road Runners for the track workout. They will allow you past the desk. From there you go up the steps to the 3rd floor. We meet at the far end of the track from the door. There is a bathroom on the way up the stairs, next to the area that overlooks the pool.

Please contact Coach Joe O'Leary if you have any questions about track workouts.

Pace chart is located here. Look up your 5k race time or pace on the far right and you can see your complete list of recommended paces. If you do not have a 5K race time, but have some other race times, there are alternate ways to determine your paces. more on that below.

About our pace terminology:

We use the pacing system designed by legendary coach Jack Daniels. It assigns each runner 3 sets of paces corresponding to a desired intensity. The paces are:

THRESHOLD - About your one-hour race pace

INTERVAL - VO2 max pace. About the pace you could hold in a race that lasts 10-15 minutes

REPEAT - About the pace you could in a race lasting 3-4 minutes

You can determine your pace set using one of the many online calculators. For example, go here and enter a known race distance and time. Then click on the “Training” tab below to see your paces. (I suggest ignoring the “Easy” tab. We don’t use it in workouts and frankly, I find it faster than I like to run on most days)

Tuesday May 12 - 7:00 PM at Tufts

  • Groups A, B: 8 x 400 at REPEAT (400 jog recovery - but make it an 800 jog after rep #4)

  • Groups C, D: 5 x 300 at REPEAT (500 jog but a 900 jog after #4). Then 6 x 200 at REPEAT (200 jog).

  • Groups E, F: 10 x 200 at REPEAT (200 jog, but make that a 600 jog after #5

Tuesday May 19 - 7:00 PM at Tufts

Packard Ave Hill Workout

Tuesday May 26 - 7:00 PM at Hormel Stadium in Medford

PR Night!

We will NOT meet at Tufts this week. Instead we will meet at the Hormel Stadium Track in Medford, the site of the 26x1 mile relay.

The basic idea is for everyone to do a time trial at 1 mile.  To get ready for the 26x1 relay, to get ready for the USATF road mile, or just to find out what it is like.  What makes it different is that club members can choose to help someone else meet their goal by signing up to pace.  So for the time trial, we will organize into groups going for their specific goals, hopefully with pacers to help racers hit their target.

We hope this is a fun event, that helps individuals meet their running goals, while making connections with other teammates.  We hope you enjoy it and get that PR.

So if you want to race, pace or both, please enter your info here.