After a decade hiatus, we’re back!  The Trail Animals Running Club (TARC) is the original trail running club of the Boston-metro area.  Founded in the 1990s, the club’s membership consists of men and women, who enjoy and participate in the sport of ultrarunning and trail runs. Members are from all over the United States with a concentration of runners in New England, Upstate New York and Canada.

Many members get together on weekends to run trails or compete in and/or organize trail running events. Our “home base” is the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Ma.  where we run every Sunday morning at 7:00 am.  Members also run on trails in western suburbs of Medford, Weston and Wayland and the northern suburbs of the Middlesex Fells and Andover area along the Merrimack River.

In 1997, TARC sponsored it’s first ultra event - Don’t Run Boston 50K (”DRB”), held in the Blue Hills, led by race director, Howie Brienan and has run annually ever since on the 3rd Sunday in April, a day before the Boston Marathon.   Originally it was meant to be an “alternative” run to the highly commercial pavement pounding Marathon but more and more members have raced DRB and then used the Marathon as a “warm down” the following day.

Membership is free and the trail humor is priceless.  We welcome anyone who is interested in trail running to join and come run with us.

Questions?  Contact us at imbc@comcast.net.  See you on the trails!