Who we are…
We are an open and welcoming community of outdoors people, passionate about all forms of running, especially on our fantastic and world class local trails.
We’ve been meeting and running around Boulder, Colorado and beyond since 2013. We are a large group, catering to a broad range of abilities and focus on social runs to promote community, volunteerism, racing and more.
Our members are welcoming, social, humble, kind, interesting, passionate and most of all fun! We love running with others and fostering a large and engaging, in-person community where we get to spend quality time enjoying the outdoors while chatting, laughing and being healthy.
We’ve been a large part of the trail running community in the United States for well over a decade and you can see our members representing at numerous races around the USA and beyond, proudly donning their RMR green shirts.
We have many new faces join each week and take great pleasure in welcoming both old and new to the running community of Boulder.
Outside of our regular runs our members get together for ad-hoc runs, social outings, races and other adventures.
RMR In The News
Proudly Wearing Green: Meet the Rocky Mountain Runners – iRunFar
What we do…
Running, racing, eating, drinking, volunteering, socializing and more! RMR is always on the trails in some capacity or another. We meet regularly all year round, whatever the weather to foster an open and welcoming local community of passionate outdoors people.
We organize regular group runs each week where we can meet up, run and socialize.
We travel to races all year round and support each other in the pursuit of our goals.
We hang out socially to get to know each other and foster a vibrant community.
We volunteer at races, on our local trails and at other events to give back to the community.
Where we meet…
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5:30pm at the Chautauqua Parking Lot for a 6 mile run up to the summit of Green Mountain. We aim to finish in 2 hours so we can reconvene for drinks and food afterwards at Southern Sun Pub and Brewery from 7:45pm.
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6am at various locations around Boulder. Routes posted a day or more prior to the run.
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Join us every other Thursday (specifically, the first & third Thursdays of each month) at 5:30pm for a 5-mile Chubby Bunny Loop. Meet at the base of NCAR (Vassar Dr & NCAR Rd).
All women are welcome to join us for this conversation-paced social run! Depending on seasonal trail conditions (snow, ice, mud) it should take us between 60-75 minutes.
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6am down the road in Golden. Usually from Chimney Gulch Trailhead.
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6pm at various breweries around the Boulder area for low key hangs with the crew
FAQs
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We are a large group covering a wide range of abilities. Our average runner is typically already comfortable running on the trails and has some background in running. Our Monday night run summits Green mountain which is a 2,500ft climb on rough technical trails and so isn’t typically suited to beginners. We usually ascend in 1h15m and descent in 45m for a 2h round trip as a gauge of pace. Our Weds morning runs are typically on the lower trails around the flatirons, usually anywhere from 5 to 8 miles and we aim to finish by 7:30am so folks can get to work on time!
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Just show up! There is no official way to join other than just showing up and being part of a great community.
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Lots! As well as doing a lot of extracurricular socializing we also get together to do lots of other activities in the outdoors like biking, climbing, hiking, skiing and more!