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Athletes train with Coaches Tom Derderian, David Callum, and Bruce Bond every Tuesday evening at 7pm on the track at Danehy Park in Cambridge.  These track workouts are the club's primary training activity, although most weekends club members organize long runs and trail runs from Walden Pond in Concord and from the Blue Hills in Milton. The club also hosts two races annually: an indoor track meet and a cross-country meet. (This information is current as of August 2008, but feel free to contact the club to confirm current workout locations.)

During your first few weeks with the club, you will find a coach with whom you are comfortable and a small group of runners with abilities and goals similar to your own. The club system of training is most exhilarating when you find yourself a member of a group of three or four people that can run through a workout together in a tight pack, pushing but also supporting each other on the track. Whether you run with a fast pack or a slow pack is not important, as long as it is your own pack. A successful evening on the track is one that leaves you feeling confident and powerful, and there is strength in the fellowship of a pack.

What kind of running you will do during practice depends on your current abilities and goals. A runner who has never run on a track before might want to run 100 meters four times with lots of easy running in between just to get used to the feeling of running on a track. A runner of moderate ability working on speed might run distances of 400 meters, 200 meters, and 100 meters with long rests in between each distance, and then repeat this process three or four times. The same runner working on endurance might run a mile, rest a short period of time, and repeat this four or five times. An elite runner preparing for the cross-country season might run 800 meters at a brisk pace with an extra surge for the last 200 meters to imagine pushing by a competitor running up a hill, then jog a lap, and repeat this six to eight times.

In contrast to many running clubs, training with Greater Boston is not restricted to distance running. Club members compete successfully on the roads, in cross-country, and in indoor and outdoor track. We have a growing number of sprinters and a rapidly growing group of field athletes competing in the jumping and throwing events.

For more information about training with the club, contact one of our coaches.