I feel like things are far more spread out in cities west of the Mississippi.

I'm not worried about stopping for lights that's fine. I'm just having trouble finding 10 miles of sidewalk. In Milwaukee (where I'm from) we have miles of bike trails along the lake which was amazing, but even within the city 10 miles of sidewalk wasn't a huge ask. I just find this place so strange a city of this size should have sidewalks I don't know why they don't.

Worcester has terrible transit infrastructure. Even for a car centric city, the car infrastructure is bad.

They just created a transit department for the city literally this past week or so, so who knows. Maybe it gets better.

As far as other runners, there's the November Project.

I guess to be clear I'm not worried about stopping for intersections I'm just struggling to find 10 miles of sidewalk that are all connected which is weird. I moved here from Milwaukee and it was relatively easy to find that there I just think it's so strange that sidewalks just end here.

It's tough in Worcester because this city doesn't invest in safe pedestrian infrastructure. Anywhere you run, you will have to deal with rageful drivers and ankle-breaking potholes, even on what few sidewalks exist. Feel free to DM me for suggestions, I run a lot all over town.

From where you live, I'd suggest the following route. It's a little complex but decent enough and if you follow your instincts and/or bring your phone the first time so you can see the turns on a map, you'll be fine. Here's a link to the route.

1. From Indian Lake, at the intersection of Holden St and Grove St, head up Nelson Place and into Assumption College by going around the yellow gate at end of Nelson Place, which is the back end of campus. Run through campus down to Salisbury St.
2. Head left on Salisbury and after just a couple hundred meters, turn right on Flagg St. The sidewalk is in very bad shape for the first bit here but improves after that. Take Flagg St. (which turns into Richmond Ave.) all the way to Pleasant St. You're about 2 miles into the route when you reach Pleasant.
3. Head left on Pleasant, then soon after turn right on Howland Terrace. Take Howland Terrace until it ends at Hadwen Rd. Take a left and connect down to June St. Turn right on June and continue a couple blocks to Chandler. At Chandler you're 3 miles in. Keep going on June St. to Mill St. It's another mile to get there, putting you at 4 miles.
4. Turn right on Mill St. This is a fast, busy road that's not great to run on, but it has a shoulder and a sidewalk. Both are often occupied by parked cars but by moving between them, you can manage. Continue on Mill St. about a mile, bending to the right, until you get to a stoplight. You're now back at Chandler St. and just over 5 miles into your run. You could turn around here for an out and back 10 miler if you want.
5. If you don't want to do the out and back, turn left on Chandler and continue to the next intersection. Go straight through it and then take a right on Tory Fort Lane. This is a small, one lane road that goes through a secluded area. No sidewalks but plenty safe. Continue for almost a mile on Tory Fort lane and follow the path you see on your left after the intersection with Caton Rd. Follow the path through a short stretch of woods and it dumps out onto a gravel road. Take the gravel until you can turn left. Turn left and you'll come out onto Olean St., a wider concrete road. You're about 6.5 miles in now.
6. Turn left on Olean St. and take it back to the intersection of Chandler and Pleasant, reaching 7.5 miles. Head left on Pleasant and continue back to the intersection with Richmond. Pleasant isn't great for running but it's not terrible iether. Now you're at 8.5 miles.
7. Continue back the way you came (Richmond to Salisbury to Assumption College, around the gate at the back and down the hill to Indian Lake. You're now back where you started, and you've run just under 11 miles.

MCRT from Thomas to River is 2.5 miles.

Sorry, was a little TWO hungry for crab ragoons. I’ll try to have more patience next time 🙃

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You're not going to get 10 uninterrupted miles anywhere without running in the road. Your best bet is the West Boylston rail Trail or the Rutland rail trail. Both are decently high mileage, Rutland especially, and have very few road crossings.

> So basically no 10 uninterrupted miles as asked

well yeah, to be pedantic I should have told them to go to a track or a highway since they're likely to hit a driveway wherever they go.

The Shore Dr 5k circle is the closest thing you're going to find that has sidewalks throughout with the least likelihood of needing to wait on a car.

This is the biggest perpendicular intersection where 90% of the time there will be no need to do more than look both ways.

Another 5k option would be the Newton Hill XC course.

You might be able to organize your run so as to have part of hit the Blackstone River Bikeway. It starts on Paul Clancey Way in very South Worcester. But you'd certainly get a lot of uninterrupted miles.

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10 miles might be tough, but I'm *almost* positive that this route is entirely sidewalked, could just run it twice.

It's a city. There's very little chance of 10 interrupted miles unless you leave the city limits. The only place it might be possible is if you run through a bunch of connected trails at the cascades, but even then that's a stretch.

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Shore Dr -> Norton Dr -> West Boylston St -> Grove St -> Holden St -> Shore Dr is used as a 5k run. You could run that circle a few times with very limited breaks/waiting on traffic.

You could also extend that down to Salisbury, Highland, etc but you run into much busier streets where you'd be waiting on lights.

You could also stay on Grove St instead of taking Holden St and head into Holden turning at Main St/Shrewsbury St to head back into Worcester though there are definite breaks in the sidewalk.

I just run on a track at WPI, lake park, or Quinsigamond Community College.

Ten uninterrupted miles in a city is a huge ask.

Alot of people just circle Elm Park a bunch too. Thats pretty popular.

You can try the trails at the audobon society

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what the hell is the point of this comment?

Oh no did someone drive into the Chinese place again?

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Oh i dont knows that, just that they didnt die

Glad no one was hurt! I was hoping the gas station didn't get held up or anything. I go there all the time and would hate for any of the employees to have been hurt.

Motor vehicle accident, non fatal