There are numerous, perhaps countless, great training routes in and around the Potomac Highlands region of Western Maryland and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
Below are a few. Please note that a course’s degree of difficulty is relative; any assessment depends on the fitness of the runner or walker and that person’s inclination to prefer, or not, hills, trails or other training route variables.
Feel free to email [email protected] with a link of your favorite routes, which could be included on this page. Events with an asterisk at the beginning of the name indicate a current PHDC-organized or sponsored running event. Those beginning with a plus sign indicate a now-defunct PHDC race route that could be brought back in the future.
Mount Savage hilly 8 - Mount Savage, MD
Cold Stream Road 11.5 miles- Slanesville to Capon Bridge, WV
* Campus Classic 4K — Romney, WV
Get Sheetz 15K tempo run - Mount Savage, MD
Christie Road loop - Cumberland, MD
* Red Bud Distance Run 10-miler and 5K — Capon Bridge to Yellow Spring, WV
+ Iron Rail Days 5K — Mount Savage, MD
* Battle of Hancock 5K — Hancock, MD
Great Allegany Run 15K — Mount Savage to Cumberland, MD
* Hampshire County Turkey Trot 2-miler — Romney, WV
+ Run for the Plunge 15K — Rocky Gap State Park, MD
