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WE RAN TAKOMAwith love

248

signed up

98

finished

5K

one loop

1

neighborhood

Highlights · Aug 2, 2026

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DO HARD THINGS TOGETHER

ARTISTS REVIEW THE RUN

Music brought us here. Running keeps us together.

“Working with GRYT on Run Takoma With Love has made me want to help make movement feel more accessible, social, and connected to something bigger than ourselves.”

Heno.

Heno.

Artist & Producer

12,127Instagram followers
26,301Spotify monthly listeners

The voice behind From Takoma With Love — the album this run is named for

As of Oct 19, 2026

Run #02 · Early December 2026

Run Takoma again in December

248 people signed up for the first one and 98 finished. Run #02 is free, and the 100 bibs go to this list first. Pick your weekend and we'll send the date and route as soon as they're locked.

Get first dibs on a bib

Free. Every pace welcome, walkers too. Takes 30 seconds.11am EST Start Time.

Which weekend works for you?

We'll pick the date most people can make.

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Just helps us plan. Nobody gets left behind.

No spam. Just the date, the route and your bib link.

NEXT UP · PHILADELPHIA

Shake & Ship

A music x endurance hackathon on Philadelphia Marathon weekend. A 30-minute shakeout run at 10:00 AM Friday, Nov 20, then an open build session. Ship by 11:59 PM Saturday. Free. No coding required.

Venue in final selection.

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Run #02 · Draft course

SIX LAPS. ONE PARK.where we first met.

Every step stays inside Takoma-Piney Branch Local Park. No streets, no road crossings. One 819 m lap, run 6 times, plus a 86 m stretch to the finish line for a full 5K.

Draft course. Final route depends on approval from Montgomery Parks.

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Clockwise. Dashed line is the park boundary. Numbers match the directions.
total
5K
laps
6
total climb
420 ft

Elevation · one lap

260 ft205 ft0 m819 m

Downhill first, then climb back to the start. About 70 ft up per lap.

TURN BY TURN · EACH LAP

  1. S

    Start · 0 m

    Northwest corner of the park. Head northeast along the upper edge.

  2. 1

    Bear right · 86 m

    Swing southeast and start the long descent.

  3. 2

    Straight · 200 m

    Keep downhill along the east side.

  4. 3

    Slight right · 253 m

    Ease right, still dropping.

  5. 4

    Turn right · 337 m

    Head southwest along the bottom, still dropping.

  6. 5

    Slight right · 402 m

    Low point of the lap. Begin climbing west.

  7. 6

    Straight · 480 m

    Short push up the south edge.

  8. 7

    Turn right · 517 m

    Head northwest, climbing.

  9. 8

    Turn right · 568 m

    North up the west side, the longest climb.

  10. 9

    Bear right · 652 m

    Crest the climb and swing northeast.

  11. 10

    Bear left · 693 m

    Run back to the start to finish the lap.

  12. F

    Finish

    After lap 6, run 86 m past the start to the finish line.

In partnership with

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Hydration partner

Montgomery Parks, M-NCPPC

Parks partner

Run #02 · Dec 2026

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COMMUNITY.   MOVEMENT.   TAKOMA.

The story

How we got here

A love letter to a neighborhood — and the run that turned it into a Sunday morning ritual.

  1. Chapter 01

    A love letter dropped.

    April 30, 2026 — Oddisee and Heno. release From Takoma With Love. Twelve tracks about the block that raised them both. Not nostalgia — gratitude. Two artists, a generation apart, writing home to the same neighborhood.

  2. Chapter 02

    Five years. Then a collision.

    Four hundred miles away in Pittsburgh, one of the first listeners wasn't a stranger. Nick and Heno. had spent five years building together — music ventures, tech partnerships, late-night ideas that became real things. The last two years, Nick's project was different: doing hard things and getting his health back.

  3. Chapter 03

    We run it back.

    August 2, 2026 — Run Takoma With Love. One loop through the neighborhood the album is written to. Free, 100 runners, small on purpose. Not a concert. Not a promo. A community moving through its own streets — the most physical way to say thank you.

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The album · the friendship · the route

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08.02.26 · Takoma Park, MD

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Run #02 · Early December 2026

Do hard things together

01 · The opportunity

100 bibs. One neighborhood.

Run #02 is coming to Takoma Park this December. Free for runners, built with local partners. Grab a spot on the list or bring your brand to the start line.

02 · The value

248 signed up. 98 finished.

Run #01 filled fast with every pace and every experience level, walkers included. Partners met a real community face to face, at the shelter and on the field, long after the finish.

03 · The story

A hang with a 5K in the middle.

Not a race with splits and podiums. We're here to love Takoma and each other; the run is just the excuse. Food, games, music, and we leave the park better than we found it.

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