Trifter

Boston is a city that loves sports, and it is also a city full of young students and professionals who are concerned about there health. These two qualities combine make for an area with plenty of things for you to do to get into or stay in shape. Among one of the popular physical activities in the Boston area is jogging and because of the popularity of jogging in the area you can find many different places to jog. Not only are there places which you can go jogging when the weather is good but there are also places you can go jogging when the New England weather is at its worst whether that is in the middle of a freezing winter or the heat and humidity of a blazing summer.

A great option if you want to go jogging is to go to a local school and jog on the track. A standard track is 400 meters or a quarter of a mile. You can easily figure out how far you have gone on a track. Also most schools in the area have all weather tracks. High Schools are not the only schools that you can go to use the track. Middle schools also may have tracks. Some good schools that often have joggers and runners at them include the Belmont high and the Water Town high schools track. When running on a track remember that the inside lanes are for the faster runners and the outside is for slower runners or joggers and walkers.

Also you really should only visit when school is out though public schools are held in common trust which means when not in use by the school anyone can use them. Besides schools some of the local colleges have tracks that are accessible to the general public. One college that is easily accessible is the Harvard track. The Harvard track is located in Boston not Cambridge on JFK and is across from the Harvard Business school. The Harvard trick is not the best track to run on it fills like running on cement instead of a nice new all weather track like you can find at Belmont High School, it also is a big circle instead of an oval possibly because it is not on the outside of a football field but there are hardly any people on the field and even the Harvard team trains mainly in the indoor facilities which are not available to the public.

Along most of the Charles you can find good jogging paths that also offer great scenery. However you will want to go on the Cambridge side, as the Boston side does not have as much in the way of paths for bikers and joggers. To figure the distance you go you can mapquest the streets you ran between but the paths tend to wind a bit and are mapquesting will not give you the most accurate distance.

If you are willing to go out to Concord there are plenty of trails and many of them have distances marked so you can decide which trail to go. The trails from Concord go all the way into Cambridge so you can get on a trail in Cambridge and jog out to Concord. Some of the Concord paths take you around the famous Walden pond. Many of the paths connecting Cambridge and Walden are by lakes and offer great scenery while you jog. Even from the Cambridge side distances are clearly given so you can know how far you went.

During the harsh summer and winter you might want to jog indoors. Most places require some kind of membership. Even local cities have places for the residents even if you do not live in their city but live in the greater Boston area. The Roxbury Community College has the Reggie Lewis Center, which has an indoor track and other gym facilities available to the local public for a small fee, which is less, then you pay for a professional gym membership.

Remember most places in the Boston area do have jogging trails but some have better jogging trails then others. If you are not fortunate to live between Cambridge and Concord or on the north side of the Charles then a local school track might be a good option for you.