That's right everyone, our very own Abby Perrine was chosen to be the Race Director for the inaugural Boston Run Like a Mother 5K race on Mother's Day. We will provide more information on our site as it becomes available, but ladies, don't make any plans on May 13th!

Today we had another lovely article written by a Mr. Forman from the Salem News. You can read that one here:
http://www.salemnews.com/business/x910009913/Picking-up-the-pace

This Saturday we will be doing our Signature Group Tour in Boston- come join us (RSVP here: http://group.runboston.org).

The RunBoston & RunSalem team hopes everyone is enjoying this amazing running weather while it lasts! RunBoston co-founder, Jared Perrine, and his daughter Eden are enjoying another beautiful run at Seacoast Half Marathon from a few weeks back…

Justin Rice wrote a nice piece in Boston.com's "Your Town." We threw in some Wicked Running Club love…

Read the article HERE.

At the end of the article… under the "New Businesses" section. It reads:

"RunBoston, a running tour company, has added RunSalem, a sister branch in Salem. RunSalem will offer personalized/private running tours and monthly group runs for locals and tourists. Tours are 5 kilometers and are led by a running guide past some of Salem's historic landmarks...." READ ARTICLE

Ms. Bethany Leach Mavis from Triathlete Magazine wrote a nice piece on Guided Running Tours in the December 2011 issue. RunBoston is part of what she calls this "Running Trend" (pun intended).

In 2009 Abby and Jared ran their personal record at the Hyannis Half Marathon. It seems only fitting that Jared's first marathon be Hyannis in 2012. Wish the RunBoston husband/wife team some luck during their chilly training runs!

We had 15 come to our first ever Signature Group Tour, and we had a blast. Join us on Dec. 3 for our next group tour.

On Monday Jill Radsken from the Boston Herald took a running tour with our guide, Wayne. HERE is the resulting article.

As with RunBoston, RunSalem will offer both personalized/private running tours and monthly group runs of historic Salem. RunSalem kicks off business with an inaugural “Locals Only” run on November 19. Let us know if you can come!

Group tours will be held the last Saturday of every month beginning January 28, 2012. Runners will meet a running guide at 10:00 a.m. outside the Salem Maritime National Historic Site Visitors Center on 2 New Liberty Street, before heading out on a 5k (3.26-mile) run past some of the city's most famous historic landmarks.

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Look for more exciting updates soon!

Ronak, one of the first guides at RunBoston, ran the Reach-the-Beach (RTB) relay again this year. Here are some pictures! (Ronak is in the center of the group photo, in white shirt.)

Starting Saturday, October 1, RunBoston will host monthly group tours to and from the State House on Beacon Hill. This new Signature Group Tour will provide a unique tour experience through beautiful Boston, running by a large number of the city's most famous landmarks and points of historic significance.

Runners meet at 10:00 a.m. on the steps of the State House on Beacon Street (the corner of the Boston Common), before heading out on a 4.4-mile (7.1 km) loop covering everything from the North End to Fenway—and all the sights in between!



We also introduced our 1 click checkout. Scheduling a run and paying for a run in one simple step. Check it out on your Private Tour page or our Group Run page.

RunBoston is expanding to Salem this Fall…



More to come on this soon at:
runsalem.org
salemrunningtours.com
salemrunningtours.org

Abby and I had a nice meeting with the Wicked Running Club up in Salem this past Saturday. Tim was a great host and he sold us on many more group runs with their club. They have a huge amount of local runs planned also. Check them out at www.wickedrunningclub.com

Abby and I had a very nice chance meeting with Race Directors, Lori and Kevin Lozano in Rockport the other day. Read up on their race called The Elephant Run at marcenasmiracles.com and it's amazing cause. Abby and I play to take a car full of people out to Buffalo next Mother's Day for their race. Join us!

We saw Eddie-O of the Freedom Trail Run on our jaunt through the North End today and he told us about his October 2 5K through Kendall Square. We love local races, and this one sounds fun. Here is their info:


Join us Sunday, October 2, 2011 for a "wunderbar" German-themed road race through the heart of Kendall Square, Cambridge, followed by an amazing Oktoberfest celebration! Get in the spirit! Run the race in your Lederhosen or Dirndl and you could win a great prize in our post-race German costume contest! Unleash your inner-Bavarian! Registration includes a stylish race shirt, and post-race Oktoberfest party (21+) featuring an awesome mix of German hip hop & electronica! > SPACE IS LIMITED, this race will sell-out!

Special thanks to David Brown and the Chronicle for including us in their wonderful "Running" episode last night.



To view the whole episode, check out their website...
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/chronicle/28614287/detail.html

WCVB-TV, Channel 5 is airing a special on running this Thursday at 7:30. RunBoston will be interviewed.

THE CHRONICLE

Our lovely guide Sarah approached us and offered to give her tours in Spanish (if the customer so desires it). What a great idea Sarah!
Que Bueno!

From the looks of things, RunBoston tour guides Sarah and Adrienne enjoyed themselves at this year's Warrior Dash.

A few of our lucky runners got a chance to meet Cedric Maxwell, former Cetlics great, while jogging through the Boston Common...

A big thank you to Alix Shutello, editor of the Runner's Illustrated e-zine, for her profile of RunBoston! You can find the article here.

On a side note, look for Alix's print magazine on Ultrarunning in the next year or two!


*Correction to posted article: We currently offer a weekly free group run, which is hosted by Tommy Doyle's Irish Pub in Harvard Square (Cambridge). Any restaurant or shopping recommendations made by RB guides are the personal opinion of the guide, and are not based on sponsorship of any kind. So take that suggestion for a cannoli in the manner it's intended--a way for us to share our love of the city and its cuisine with fellow runners!

Alix from Runner's Illustrated got a VIP tour from Abby last weekend. Here is a photo of them crossing the Marathon Finish Line!

A very special congratulations to Julie-Anne for the birth of her baby boy- Benjamin. Julie-Anne has been a guide for RunBoston for over a year. We wish her and her family the very best!

Copley's Choice

3 miles- DOG LOVERS RUN
This is a very special 3-mile run through one of our favorite places. With this running tour, you will begin and end in the famous Boston square that inspired the founders of RunBoston to name their Great Dane "Copley." She will join you on this run and show you around Copley Square, The Public Garden, and the Boston Common.

CBS Sports recently listed some local running clubs. They graciously included our Sunday group run with Tommy Doyles in their list. Check it out:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/top-lists/guide-to-boston-running-clubs/

Abby and I will be joining other members and employees of the Cambridge Athletic Club in the May 7 ALS Awareness 5K walk and road race. Join us!

Go to www.cureiscoming.org
Our team name is "CAC Cares- Cambridge Athletic Club"

Check out what Erica had to say about our weekly group run!

http://bostonrookie.com/

Jared and Abby, Co-founders of RunBoston.org, welcome their first daughter, Eden Abigail into the world on March 16. Welcome to the RunBoston family Eden!

I can't recommend QRST printing in Somerville enough for shirt designs. We have been working with Peter since we opened our doors in 2009 and he not only turns out a good product, but he does it on our timeline (that's good since it seems we are always in a rush). Take a look at the tour guide pants he printed up for Eden. Thanks Peter!

Hi folks. I wanted to keep everyone up to date about all things RunBoston. We are expecting a booming spring and summer season this year, and to kick things off, I present the new brochure and the new website design (which hopefully you like):

Well, Abby and I are about to welcome a new addition to the RunBoston family. We will introduce you to baby Eden when she arrives in March. Until then, please enjoy a picture we had taken at Momphoto.com. Gregory was very professional and very friendly- we highly recommend him (and you can't go wrong with someone who took the maternity photos for Papelbon and Buckholtz).

This Saturday Abby and I had the pleasure of meeting Andy and the runners from The Most Informal Running Club Ever (TMIRCE). I highly recommend attending their 50 person plus weekly run. Viva la runners!

Visit their website here:
http://www.informalrunning.com/

Come join us everyone. Click on the MeetUp icon below to join our new group...

We at RunBoston want to put all of our resources out there. We want to share our city and our love of running with everyone we encounter. With this in mind, we have put all of our running routes up on WalkJogRun.net.

Go see for yourself:

http://www.walkjogrun.net/groups/runboston

Mark, over at Great Runs has featured us on his website. If you are interested in some great local running resources, please check out his site:

http://www.greatruns.net/

This past weekend we kicked off our group run + brunch with Tommy Doyles. Our fabulous guide, Jenny, took us on a brisk run around the Charles to and from Harvard Square. Special thanks to Allison, Erin, and Chris for joining us.

Please join us every Sunday at Tommy Doyles @10:00.

Beginning on January 9, 2011 RunBoston will be partnering with Tommy Doyles to offer a weekly 5K Group Run + Brunch for $9.99.

Join Jenny, our Group Run Leader, for a run around the Cambridge area every Sunday in 2011. We will be leaving from the Harvard Square Tommy Doyles at 10:00 am. After the run, stay with us and enjoy a delicious brunch.

Please RSVP HERE.
You can pay the day of the run.
Valuables can be stored at Tommy Doyles during the run.

Thank you to Ms. Saha and UConn for including us in their most recent article, "Things to do over Thanksgiving break: Boston."

Tonight Abby and I had a nice chat with Mark Lowenstein. He is the author of 3 books on local running routes. Check them out here.

This is one of our favorites. It's in year five... and either Abby or I have run it every year. This year, we convinced one of our friends to run it with us. We hammed it up for a few of our photos...

Check out Ronak's running tour in Berlin!

Much thanks to Paul (of Irish Running Tours) and Michael (from eirhost.com) for their help with this transaction.

RunBoston LLC now own:

runboston.org
bostonrunningtours.org
bostonrunningtours.com

Whatever makes it easier for people to find and access our services...

On his holiday through Europe, our guide Ronak took a tour with City Jogging Tours. Much thanks for the pictures Ronak and Hope (their owner).

RunBoston is now listed as #3 on the "Things to do in Boston."

Check it out... we are on the Lululemon website as the Harvard Square showroom local running ambassadors...

Molly from Hint Water stopped by the Harvard Square Lululemon Showroom on Sunday to introduce us to her many fine flavors. My personal favorite was the watermelon. Their name doesn't lie... If you are looking for a drink of pure clean spring water with a hint of your favorite fruit- Hint Water is for you. No artificial flavors, additives, or sugar. And no calories. Molly you are welcome to come to our group runs anytime!

That's right, you can call us RunBoston LLC now... Overall the process was fairly painless.

Well, we have now made it to 5th on the "Things to do" in Boston on our beloved Tripadvisor... This has yielded us a plethora of tours over the next two weeks. It's going to be a busy August! Thank you Tripadvisor!

Today RunBoston made it to #9 of almost 300 things to do in Boston. CHECK IT OUT HERE!

Runboston made it to #13 on TripAdvisor's "things to do" in Boston. Come on, give us a good review, you know you want to!

For over 6 months we have been using Yelp to manage our reviews, but because of the algorithm they use to manage their reviews, they have filtered out all of our reviews. The reason for this is very simple: They assume that if you have only reviewed only one business- you are a spammer. Being that a good majority of our running buddies are from out of the country, they have no idea what yelp is... Upon asking them to write reviews of us, they're immediately identified as spam, and discarded.

Therefore, we have switched our reviews to Tripadvisor. They encourage you to ask your customers for reviews... If you have been on a tour with us, or are just feeling generous, GIVE US A REVIEW.

We met some lovely ladies from the Four Seasons hotel this morning down at the Prudential Lulu and it looks like we will be helping them mark the course for next weekend's Run For Hope. This 5K will contribute all proceeds directly to pediatric cancer care and research at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. We hope to see you out there on race day. See the website for more information.

Today we also found that a local gentleman is now offering jogging tours of the Freedom Trail. His website can be found at mybostontour.com. This site is new as of May 2010. It seems that people must sign up for Saturday or Sunday tours at designated times.

Friend of RunBoston, Ben Haber, just wrote a great article about our FREE upcoming group run from lululemon.... Check it out here.

Don't miss our 1st monthly FREE group run from Lululemon this coming Saturday @11. Meet us outside the Prudential store and run the 5 miles to the Harvard Square Lulu showroom... We are calling it Lulu to Lulu. And if you wish, after you can join us for brunch at Tommy Doyles!

Invite others! Come run with RunBoston!

We hope to see you there!

Thanks for the great tour this morning, Shelley! Good company, great weather, and a great warm-up for tomorrow's Run to Remember. If anyone is out for tomorrow's half marathon through Boston, look for the RB shamrock and say hello!

Also in recent news, the Harvard Square showroom at Lululemon has officially named us as their local ambassadors. You can see that info HERE. I'll have to admit to only wearing my lulu gear on all of our runs... it's comfortable, it's flattering, and it breathes!

Lastly, another running tour company, City Running Tours, is now advertising that they offer tours in Boston. I figured one day they would try to come to Boston. What you'll find after going to their website is that they primarily offer periodic group runs through the city for a flat rate, though they are also starting to offer (in our minds, somewhat overpriced) personalized tours, too. Despite their relatively new presence in Boston, their website appears above ours now in a Google search for "Boston Running Tour."

More to come in this busy busy springtime, as we continue to work with the awesome folks at Lululemon, and work on setting up a local running club and hopefully a few more free fun runs!

JP & AP

I'd like to take a few shameless moments to congratulate both the two co-founders of RunBoston, Abby and Jared, on their wedding this past weekend. It was Amazing. Here is to many more memories, both running and otherwise...

Hi there folks. More tours for RunBoston this weekend... the Lululemon 5K from Harvard Square... the Marathon Expo... and volunteering for the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge group. It's been pretty busy.

We found out on Saturday that we are going to be the local ambassadors for the Harvard Square Lululemon store. How cool is that?

Have a great Marathon Monday Boston!

Come join us this weekend when we take the customers of Lululemon on a 5K run around the Charles River. Psst... It's free!

Today we spent a good majority of our time redesigning our website... what do you think?



We also ordered some new brochures... The combination of these two things can mean only one thing- a guerilla marketing campaign is about to begin for Runboston

On April 17, we will be putting on a 5K with lululemon in Harvard Square. I will be putting up more information on that race when I have it. But tonight we visited their store, and picked up some running gear. Let me tell you... this stuff is nice! Check them out...

What do you guys think of our new logo... a new website will follow.

Today we received confirmation that we will be a beta tester for SquareUp... This is a great thing for us, as we will be able to take credit card payments with our iphones- at the time of the runs. It's a another great idea by the creator of twitter.



We also began a logo design contest on 99designs.com for a new logo. Next week I will post the winner's design! Here is one of the ones we like so far...

In the last two weeks we have scheduled three runs, a possible running club for local gym, and a 5K length fun run. People are coming out of their winter exercise slumber and getting in some miles. We look forward to what the future holds for RunBoston. Be on the lookout for our new logo, as that is in the works!

RunBoston is very happy to be partnering with QRST for our tshirts and RunKeeper for our run tracking!

Check out their sites for more info!

If you get a chance, please give us a favorable review on Yelp!

http://www.yelp.com/biz/runboston-cambridge

I got tired of sending nasty plain text emails to our hotel partners, so the other day I sought out MailChimp... and produced THIS! Granted, some of the links don't work, but hey, not bad for the first email...

Ben Habr of Examiner.com wrote a very nice article about us. Check it out HERE.

A big thanks to Ben, and kudos to him for recognizing a "good thing."

Check out our new pricing information HERE.

Today Abby and I picked our brochures up from FedEx up in Wilmington. We then spent the rest of the day delivering them to our 13 hotel partners. We had some great conversations with the folks at the hotels.

We think things are going to get busy... Our plan is to staff our runs together until the spring. Once the warmer weather sets in, we think we will be busy enough to begin hiring running guides.

This is pretty exciting for us.

Runboston is the first company to start a running tour company in Boston. Upon doing the market research to start our company up, we came across some other folks who have had similar ideas. Take a look:

www.bostonruns.com
Owned by a local young man. Purchased in 2006. The domain is listed as "Under Construction", however, he cwreated a facebook group in 2009. The domain name expires in May of 2011.

www.bostonrunningtours.com
An Irish man who owns an Irish running tour company bought this domain. The site is currently "Under Construction." The domain name expires in January of 2010.

www.runboston.com
A local man has owned this domain name since 1998 and wants to do something with it one day. This site is currently "Under Construction." This domain name expires in January of 2010.

www.bostonrunningtour.com
A downtown-dwelling young couple own this domain and want to create a running tour company, like us... Their site is currently "Under Construction." This domain expires in September of 2010.

www.bostonruns.org and www.bostonrunningtour.org
Both domains are still available. We may or may not purchase them.

And the numerous blogs that have, at one time or another, discussed this concept...
http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/2009/08/02/exciting-new-running-site/
http://absolutlyfit.blogspot.com/2008/02/random-thoughts-on-friday.html
http://cambridgex.blogspot.com/2009/04/just-runnnnning-in-rain.html
http://sugarbugblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/running-toursyeah-right.html

So far, the following hotels are interested in partnering with us:

Le Meridien
Liberty Hotel
Hotel Marlowe
XV Beacon Hotel
Nine Zero
The Onyx Hotel
Fairmont Battery Wharf Boston
Copley Square Hotel
Taj Boston
Mandarin Oriental Boston
The Langham Boston
The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel
The Westin Boston Waterfront

Abby and I just ordered our first brochures. 300 in total... These will go out to area hotels and running stores. If you see them out and about, feel free to drop us a line...

I did it... I bought some Yahoo and Google advertising space online. Here is what it should look like... Did you notice that my ad isn't the one listed :)

Today we purchased bostonrunningtours.org. Now we just need to advertise ;)
Wish us luck... here this will help!

Here it is folks- the first race where Abby and I ran in our RunBoston shirts. Hopefully many more to come!

Take a look at our new tshirt designs available under our Merchandising link.