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Chicago Mountain RunnersTM is a running community for finding elevation, running it repeatedly and occasionally questioning our sanity decisions.

2026 club totals.

Vertical climbed
132K ft
Total miles
2.5K
Runners on the hills
2
Number of runs
240

We're going to the moon!

Join the club and help us get there. We're only 1,261,022,400 feet away.

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Get high in the city.

You don't need mountains to train for mountains. These are the hills, sledding slopes and questionable pieces of landfill elevation we run repeatedly around Chicago.

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Summit ≈ 620 ft

Total rise

≈ 30 ft

Cricket Hill: shape and figures from USGS 3DEP elevation data, approximate. Vertical scale exaggerated.

  1. Cricket Hill

    Montrose Beach · Uptown

  2. Warren Hill

    Warren Park · West Ridge

  3. Horner Hill

    Horner Park · Irving Park

  4. Schiller Hill

    Schiller Woods

  5. Mt. Trashmore

    Robert E. James Park · Evanston

JUST SHOW UP.

No membership fee. No pace requirement. No complicated initiation ritual. Find a hill, show up and climb it until it means something. Join the club to join the weekly group runs.

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FLAT IS A STATE OF MIND.