Nebraska Running Scene

The move will only end your career if you want it to end your career. Just run.

2:30s and 2:2high are more common around here for the faster marathoners.

There are two clubs in the area: Team Nebraska and Lincoln Running Company Racing

To learn who the fast ones in the area are you'll want to get in with one of those clubs. Both of them are mostly made up of post collegiate runners from the area colleges.

You're certainly right about the climate. Hot and humid in the summer and cold and nasty in the winter. Run during the mornings in the summer and in the winter you just have to get used to the cold and dress appropriately.

Omaha is pretty hilly but it doesn't take much looking or asking around to find some really flat places to run.

You seem to want it straight:

I live in a place with no other runners and am way faster than you. Just train and don't be a pansy. Good luck, I expect to beat you in a race sometime soon.

Former resident x 18 years. First, hope none of the people you want to train with read this thread because you come off as a huge d-bag.

"Just how bad is the running scene there?"

-If you go into anything with this kind of attitude, you are going to get what you deserve.

"hot, humid, hilly...cold, windy, hilly..."

-Are you really as fast as you claim to be? If you are, then the conditions shouldn't bother you. It's certainly not hotter than the south in the summer and people seem to survive running just fine. Get up early, or stay up late, and the temps aren't too bad. Same as pretty much everywhere else in the country. If you are really from New England then the winter will be nothing to you can't handle.

Hills? Did you actually complain about hills? I would be more bothered by a town like Chicago where you have to seek out hills. Either way, relax, there is plenty of flat trails you can run on.

"I'm trying to qualify for the Trails and need to shave off a between two and three minutes. Does this move pretty much end my mediocre running career?"

-Was that the best humblebrag you could come up with? Buddy, we know you aren't nationally elite, cause if you were, you wouldn't be posting here. So no need to suggest anyone who is gunning for a trials Q-time is mediocre. It's obvious from your post that you think pretty highly of yourself, not need to hide behind false modesty.

"Now I'm going to insult most of the people that post here and bait them into replying by telling them not to reply." [paraphrased]

-Not sure what you hoped to accomplish with that last little paragraph of yours, but good luck to you. For Omaha's sake, I kinda hope your girlfriend dumps you and you don't move there. But if you do, maybe get over yourself and your preconceived notions and you might just have a good time.

Grate Planes wrote:

You seem to want it straight:

I live in a place with no other runners and am way faster than you. Just train and don't be a pansy. Good luck, I expect to beat you in a race sometime soon.

Are you running Boston? If so, let's meet up before and see who wins.

Omahan wrote:

There are two clubs in the area: Team Nebraska and Lincoln Running Company Racing.

Two clubs is a good improvement there used to be just one.

Well done, Nate.

30K star you are a joking troll.

It's not great here, but it's not terrible. The weather isn't the best. It's almost as hot and humid here as it is anywhere. And it gets about as cold and windy here as is does anywhere. Lots of concrete too. There are a few decent dirt trails around, but not a lot of them. Our only major race is the Lincoln Marathon and Half Marathon. Des Moines has a number of good races and is only a few hours away. We don't have any 2:20 marathoners, but we do have some people you can train with. Here is a form if you want to get connected.

http://www.teamnebraska.com/prospective-athletes.html

Try the Lincoln Running Company too. They do a great job and might be a good fit.

15K Specialist and MGD Fan wrote:

It's not great here, but it's not terrible. The weather isn't the best. It's almost as hot and humid here as it is anywhere. And it gets about as cold and windy here as is does anywhere. Lots of concrete too. There are a few decent dirt trails around, but not a lot of them. Our only major race is the Lincoln Marathon and Half Marathon. Des Moines has a number of good races and is only a few hours away. We don't have any 2:20 marathoners, but we do have some people you can train with. Here is a form if you want to get connected.

http://www.teamnebraska.com/prospective-athletes.html

Try the Lincoln Running Company too. They do a great job and might be a good fit.

Thanks for this!

if you have fall allergies or are allergic to ragweed DO NOT move there.

It is April and it hasn't hit 75 degrees yet this year. Not much else to say. A few local clubs. Pretty good guys but most suffer from a ever case of a big fish in a small pond syndrome. I don't think Nebraska has had a male qualifier for the Olympic Trials in decades. The Zoo is pretty cool.

Brian. Good to see you posting here again. It's been a while. It's good keeping up with you on your blog.

Sir James Flowers wrote:

I don't think Nebraska has had a male qualifier for the Olympic Trials in decades.

James McGown (SP?) in...'04 and '08? He trained by himself out in western Nebraska (waaaay worse "scene" than Omaha). But yes, that's when the standard was slower. Also, a few women - Lickteig and one other (Easly?) in '12 and Nielson (well, CB Iowa) in...'00, '04 & '08? It's possible...certainly not ideal but possible. Depends how much you want it. At this point, I'm not sure you'd have anyone else in the low 2:20's besides a couple guys flirting with that in Lincoln. I'd suggest linking up with those guys through the Lincoln Running Company. Lived there for the better part of 12 years during the 2000's and improved in a meaningful way for me...enough so that I could claim to be another small fish :). Make the best of it...hope this woman is pretty special.

I am not a 2:20 guy but am a 2:30 runner. I live in papillion which is a suburb of Omaha. There are a lot of running trails in and around the city. Winters are brutally cold and windy. Summers are hot and humid with limited shade.

However, I do like running in the area. There are nice trails and endless dirt roads.

Outside of the med school I did not think this city had much in the way of postgraduate education. What are you going for?

Monk wrote:

Brian. Good to see you posting here again. It's been a while. It's good keeping up with you on your blog.

Sorry, wrong guy Monk. Happy running.

Nate Silver wrote:

Monk wrote:

Brian. Good to see you posting here again. It's been a while. It's good keeping up with you on your blog.

Sorry, wrong guy Monk. Happy running.

Nice race this weekend.

There aren't any 2:20 marathoners currently living in Nebraska but there are a couple groups in Lincoln and Omaha to train/race with, several 2:30 or faster guys and 1:08 half guys.

http://www.lrc-racing.com/

http://www.teamnebraska.com/