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WELCOME TO
NEW HAVEN
ROAD RUNNERS
From social runners to competitive marathoners, and everyone in between. Check out our calendar for upcoming group runs, races, and social events.
If you have any questions please be in touch. We look forward to running with you!


NHRR showed up in bitterly cold conditions and defended our home turf at the Shamrock N’ Roll 5k last weekend! 🥶🥇
Both our mens’ and womens’ teams won the team competition to make it a clean sweep! We also continued our streak of fielding complete Masters Male (4th place) and Female teams (2nd place).
A few individual highlights:
☘️Our women’s team showed off their impressive depth, going 3-4-5-6: @court.marathon.runner (3rd, 18:28), @mattiecwebb (4th, 18:47), @livprovance (5th, 18:48), & Katie Overstrum (6th, 18:50)
☘️ @jake.jayworth was our top male (7th, 15:58) followed by @runner102.5 (8th, 16:00)
☘️ @michevarbutus (19:40) claiming top spot in the nonbinary category!
☘️Age group honors for @maxoccupancy (2nd, 16:16), @jonathanbriskman (3rd, 16:33), @boverstrum (1st, 19:19) @pheebini (2nd, 20:15), @ariannavessicchio (3rd, 20:38), and @kathryn.mj (1st, 21:53)
☘️A tremendous 45 second PR for @marcopirazz (21:22)!!! @alllieeekat also set a new PR (22:42)!!
Thanks for the photos @meteredexposure @mycelium.rhizome and @maxhonig 📸
Next Up:
The Bolton Road Race (5 Miler) is next weekend!
Both our mens’ and womens’ teams won the team competition to make it a clean sweep! We also continued our streak of fielding complete Masters Male (4th place) and Female teams (2nd place).
A few individual highlights:
☘️Our women’s team showed off their impressive depth, going 3-4-5-6: @court.marathon.runner (3rd, 18:28), @mattiecwebb (4th, 18:47), @livprovance (5th, 18:48), & Katie Overstrum (6th, 18:50)
☘️ @jake.jayworth was our top male (7th, 15:58) followed by @runner102.5 (8th, 16:00)
☘️ @michevarbutus (19:40) claiming top spot in the nonbinary category!
☘️Age group honors for @maxoccupancy (2nd, 16:16), @jonathanbriskman (3rd, 16:33), @boverstrum (1st, 19:19) @pheebini (2nd, 20:15), @ariannavessicchio (3rd, 20:38), and @kathryn.mj (1st, 21:53)
☘️A tremendous 45 second PR for @marcopirazz (21:22)!!! @alllieeekat also set a new PR (22:42)!!
Thanks for the photos @meteredexposure @mycelium.rhizome and @maxhonig 📸
Next Up:
The Bolton Road Race (5 Miler) is next weekend!


Howdy runners! 🎉🤠 We started off this year strong with record-breaking turnout at our kick off party! We are beyond excited for how much our community is growing and can’t wait to see what this next year has in store!
Your votes are in and these are this year’s superlative winners:
⭐Most Dynamic Duo Award: Aziza Chigatayeva @ziz_ch and Katie Wojnowski @katiewojnowski
⭐Most Likely to Need a Porta Potty Award: Tiger Lu @tigercheesehippo
⭐Most Improved Award (aka Training Works): Phoebe Liu @pheebini
⭐When the Going Gets Tough Award: Omar Radwan
⭐Breakfast Club Award: Pranav Pandharipande @soundsandlights
⭐Best Dressed Award: Allie Konrad @alllieeekat
A huge thank you to @orangetheory and @athleticbrewing for giving us some goodies! And a special shout out to @jiaji___ma for capturing so many amazing moments for us!
Your votes are in and these are this year’s superlative winners:
⭐Most Dynamic Duo Award: Aziza Chigatayeva @ziz_ch and Katie Wojnowski @katiewojnowski
⭐Most Likely to Need a Porta Potty Award: Tiger Lu @tigercheesehippo
⭐Most Improved Award (aka Training Works): Phoebe Liu @pheebini
⭐When the Going Gets Tough Award: Omar Radwan
⭐Breakfast Club Award: Pranav Pandharipande @soundsandlights
⭐Best Dressed Award: Allie Konrad @alllieeekat
A huge thank you to @orangetheory and @athleticbrewing for giving us some goodies! And a special shout out to @jiaji___ma for capturing so many amazing moments for us!


Strong racing from the team this weekend at the first circuit race of 2025, the Winter Wonderland 5 Miler!❄️ Highlights include:
🏃♂️ For the first time ever we had a men’s masters team! A special shoutout goes to Tom Messer, Aaron King, James Cormie, Alex Rosenthal, and Håvard Skjellegrind for making this happen!
🏅 Courtney Kitchen – 4th Overall Female
🥇 Britt Battis – 1st in 30–34 AG
🥇 Monica Brackney – 1st in 50–54 AG
🥉 Stephen Fengler – 3rd Overall Male
🥈 Jake Jayworth – 2nd in 25–29 AG
🥉 Jonathan Briskman – 3rd in 30–34 AG
🥇 Miche Palmer – 1st in Nonbinary Category
26 NHRR teammates showed up, raced hard, and enjoyed a perfect winter race day. Next up on the circuit: Shamrock 5K in New Haven on March 2! 🍀
🏃♂️ For the first time ever we had a men’s masters team! A special shoutout goes to Tom Messer, Aaron King, James Cormie, Alex Rosenthal, and Håvard Skjellegrind for making this happen!
🏅 Courtney Kitchen – 4th Overall Female
🥇 Britt Battis – 1st in 30–34 AG
🥇 Monica Brackney – 1st in 50–54 AG
🥉 Stephen Fengler – 3rd Overall Male
🥈 Jake Jayworth – 2nd in 25–29 AG
🥉 Jonathan Briskman – 3rd in 30–34 AG
🥇 Miche Palmer – 1st in Nonbinary Category
26 NHRR teammates showed up, raced hard, and enjoyed a perfect winter race day. Next up on the circuit: Shamrock 5K in New Haven on March 2! 🍀


It’s almost time to par-tay! Our annual kick off party is on Friday, January 31st so make sure to get your tickets to attend asap (link in our bio)! The event is catered and we have some prizes and superlatives you don’t wanna miss. Plus it’s one of the few times you’ll see your fellow comrades not in running clothes. DM us with any questions and hope to see you there! 💚🎉


And on the final day of NHRRmas our true love gave to us… this continually growing club!!
These numbers show our official membership continues to rise, and we know our community extends to include our wonderful alumni, “friends of the club”, and everyone in the greater CT running community who make running and racing here so much fun. So thank you to everyone who has made this team such a special group to be a part of.
Here’s to another year of green heart emojis and so many smiling faces 💚💚😃😃
These numbers show our official membership continues to rise, and we know our community extends to include our wonderful alumni, “friends of the club”, and everyone in the greater CT running community who make running and racing here so much fun. So thank you to everyone who has made this team such a special group to be a part of.
Here’s to another year of green heart emojis and so many smiling faces 💚💚😃😃


🎁🎊NHRRmas day TWO! Summit runs!🎊🎁
Nothing says friendship quite like running to the top of a hill for fun, and if you have any breath left at the top, the view will take it away. These runs are Thursdays at 6:30am starting at Nica’s, but it’s such a hit people plan summit runs or even double summits runs together all the time.
Nothing says friendship quite like running to the top of a hill for fun, and if you have any breath left at the top, the view will take it away. These runs are Thursdays at 6:30am starting at Nica’s, but it’s such a hit people plan summit runs or even double summits runs together all the time.


On the 3rd day of NHRRmas, we hit the track for our summer track meet! 🏃♀️🔥
Our meet featured an Equalizer Mile where @grace.c.klise took home the win 🥇, followed by a 4x4 relay victory by lizzie, @flor_parra, @katiewojnowski, and @kidan_zerufael 🏆💨 & we wrapped it all up with a team BBQ🍔🎉
Our meet featured an Equalizer Mile where @grace.c.klise took home the win 🥇, followed by a 4x4 relay victory by lizzie, @flor_parra, @katiewojnowski, and @kidan_zerufael 🏆💨 & we wrapped it all up with a team BBQ🍔🎉


NHRRmas Day 4, Wednesday Fun Runs!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Let’s be honest it’s ALWAYS a beautiful day for a Wednesday night fun run and clearly all of you agree! This is by far our most popular run, and definitely a good one to come to for your first time! There are so many different paces and we have a 3mile and 5mile option but you could always extend or shorten to what you need. In the summer we start at @pmorangest and for the winter we start at @thetrinitybar so we can hide from the cold after and maybe even enjoy a few cold ones while we’re at it… oh and can’t forget about the nachos 🤤
Let’s be honest it’s ALWAYS a beautiful day for a Wednesday night fun run and clearly all of you agree! This is by far our most popular run, and definitely a good one to come to for your first time! There are so many different paces and we have a 3mile and 5mile option but you could always extend or shorten to what you need. In the summer we start at @pmorangest and for the winter we start at @thetrinitybar so we can hide from the cold after and maybe even enjoy a few cold ones while we’re at it… oh and can’t forget about the nachos 🤤


Another successful year for NHRR in the USATF-CT Road Circuit! Our men’s and women’s teams both battled hard to place 2nd, while our masters team earned a strong 4th. A huge thank you to all 33 runners who scored for us this season! 🙌
We’d love to have more of you join us next year! The first race of 2025 is the Winter Wonderland 5-Mile on 1/26 — come run with us!
We’d love to have more of you join us next year! The first race of 2025 is the Winter Wonderland 5-Mile on 1/26 — come run with us!


And what is the most wonderful time of the year?? The New Haven Road Race of course!!
We are unable to count the number of people from the before race picture, but we showed up and had fun!! We had runners in all 4 races and many more friends cheering around the course. Always a great day to be be from New Haven 💚💚
Big thanks to @jbsportsevents and @newhavenroadrace for making our favorite day possible!! See you all again on Labor Day :)
We are unable to count the number of people from the before race picture, but we showed up and had fun!! We had runners in all 4 races and many more friends cheering around the course. Always a great day to be be from New Haven 💚💚
Big thanks to @jbsportsevents and @newhavenroadrace for making our favorite day possible!! See you all again on Labor Day :)


This year we continued our book club with 7 more books, and even expanded past books about running to include a book about New Haven!
It has been a lovely way to get together and discuss topics covering many different aspects of our sport. All are welcome to join! Sprit Run by Noé Álvarez will be our book for January.
It has been a lovely way to get together and discuss topics covering many different aspects of our sport. All are welcome to join! Sprit Run by Noé Álvarez will be our book for January.


Save the date for the one night a year we all get together in non-running clothes!! More details to come soon, but mark your calendars 🗓️🗓️It will be a good time 🥳


Another beautiful day of NHRRmas 🎄, coming in at Day 8 are our Friday bar/brewery runs at @armadabrewing and in Downtown New Haven! We loved our summer Friday Armada runs so much that we had to start up a winter Friday run downtown and have been going to @oldheidelbergbar after! These runs are our favorite way to kick off the weekend, and we get to socialize with some delicious drinks afterwards 🍻 maybe we will see you there this Friday 👀


For the 9th day of NHRRmas we celebrate our 2nd annual in person meet up of the @pride5k 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
This year’s run was made even better through partnership with our friends at @lululemon, @newhavenpridecenter, and @edgewoodrunners!! We had a great time, and look forward to even more community runs next year!
Big thanks to our DEIB chairs @michevarbutus and @pheebini for making this event happen ❤️💚
This year’s run was made even better through partnership with our friends at @lululemon, @newhavenpridecenter, and @edgewoodrunners!! We had a great time, and look forward to even more community runs next year!
Big thanks to our DEIB chairs @michevarbutus and @pheebini for making this event happen ❤️💚


🎄 On the 10th day of NHRRmas, NHRR gave to me... track workouts with my running family! 🎄
Whether you’re a morning or evening runner, our Tuesday track groups have you covered! We work hard, chase PRs, and have a blast while doing it. There’s nothing better than hitting the track with friends who push and support you every step of the way. 💚 🤍
Whether you’re a morning or evening runner, our Tuesday track groups have you covered! We work hard, chase PRs, and have a blast while doing it. There’s nothing better than hitting the track with friends who push and support you every step of the way. 💚 🤍


Day 11 of our 12 Days of NHRRmas❤️💚 Despite the rainy, chilly morning, our runners braved the elements and crushed their Turkey Trot races! 🦃🏃♂️ A special shout-out to @t.cannata and @tigercheesehippo for taking the win in their races—way to go!

