The College Alumni Running Camp is located on a beautiful wooded peninsula that extends a half mile into Panther Pond. The 90 acre peninsula is criss-crossed by over a mile of trails through an oak, birch, hemlock, and white pine forest. The forest trail system criss-crosses the peninsula and follows the shore of the lake providing spectacular views for runners.
During the camp session runners will use a ten mile mix of trails, roads, hills, and dirt roads around Panther Pond in the beautiful Sebago Lake Region of Maine .
Cross-training, speed, and strength & conditioning exercises are conducted on our expansive athletic field, grass hillsides, and natural beach.
The field and hillsides where we practice many of our drills sit on sandy soil that drains quickly. The edges of the 5000 square yard field are shaded by towering pine trees. Speed and conditioning games such as tug-of-war and capture the flag are played in the field.
The slopes of the hillside allow us to conduct hill sprinting exercises on a variety of gentle uphill and downhill grades.
The natural beach is flat, wide, fifty meters long, and composed of fine golden sand that makes it a great site for swimming, beach volleyball, and running drills.
The camp dining hall sits directly on the shore so that every table has a view of Panther Pond through large screened windows.
Campers stay overnight in ten airy screened cabins that are as close as fifteen yards from the beach and no more than forty yards from the beach. Campers fall asleep at night to the sound of breezes rustling through the pine trees and waves lapping up against the shore.