Registration is now open for the 8th Annual Houghton’s Pond Trail Race which will be held on Sunday, October 2nd at 9:00 AM.

 

TO REGISTER ONLINE and review information about the race go to http://www.signmeup.com/77739. Online registration allows you to receive immediate online and email confirmation of your registration, as well as race information updates.. However, if you want a paper application, it will be posted in about a week on the Colonial Road Runners website at www.colonialrunners.org.

 

2011 course will be the same as in 2009 and 2010. Here’s a link to the current course map: http://www.colonialrunners.org/attachments/File/HoughtonsPond/Houghton_s_Pond_-_2009-10_Map.jpg

 

REGISTRATION RULES:
In order to receive a site permit for the race from the Department of Conservation and Recreation, we have agreed to the following
–Registration is limited to 250 runners
–Runners must pre-enter. There will be NO race-day registration
In 2010 the registration limit filled up a few days before the race…Please register early and don’t be shut out!

 

Runners who register by September 8th are guaranteed to receive our distinctive Houghton’s Pond Trail Race T-shirt, which is definitely a “keeper”.

 

Part of the proceeds from the race will be donated to the Friends of the Blue Hills, to help support its trail maintenance program and other advocacy efforts to preserve the Blue Hills Reservation. Learn more about FBH at http://www.friendsofthebluehills.org/ .

 

The Houghton’s Pond Trail Race is a member of the Eastern New England Trail Race Series, which includes over twenty trail races in New Hampshire, Maine, eastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. For easy access to information about these races, please visit and bookmark the ENETRS website: http://www.easternnewenglandtrailraceseries.org/ .