Every Friday the November Project takes to the streets of Brookline to run hill repeats on Summit Hill Avenue, a half-mile long hill with a 17 percent grade. But on Friday, as winter storm Hercules moved through the Northeast, instead of doing their normal workout, members of the grassroots running club took out their shovels and dug out the residents of Summit Hill Ave.

Roughly half of the members of November Project showed up with shovels in hand, and after being paired up, ran up and down Summit Hill Avenue to dig out cars, sidewalks, and even walkways of houses.

“A hill that we love happens to have many people on it who think what we do is awesome, crazy, and sometimes in the way,” said Brogan Graham, co-founder of the November Project. “We've gotten tickets for running on Summit Ave. before but have done good deeds many times and changed the way we run so that we can live in harmony with the residents of Brookline.”

As a way to give back, November Project did the “Shovel Shuffle.”

Jonathan Levitt, of Allston, was one of the members who showed up at 6:30 a.m. to shovel Summit Hill.

“I’ve never had so much fun shoveling,” said Levitt, who, like other members, used the shoveling as active rest between hill repeats. “It didn’t seem like a chore at all.”

Graham said November Project wasn’t doing it for the credit, but rather just to show the city they mean well and are building a community.

“Today we’re proud,” he said. “The people who got out of bed, most of them didn't have to go into the office, did it because they wanted to pay back the people of Brookline for hosting these workouts.”

Hannah McGoldrick Hannah is the Senior Social Media Editor for Runner's World.

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