A previous post had me thinking, what are the best running towns/cities in the USA? My favorite would probably be Boulder, CO as it as at high altitude and a lot of access to trails.
A previous post had me thinking, what are the best running towns/cities in the USA? My favorite would probably be Boulder, CO as it as at high altitude and a lot of access to trails.
NYC. No trails, no altitude, wretched air quality in the summer, fantastically narcissistic people but the best races anywhere.
BLDR
Boulder, Flagstaff, Boise and Bend are my top four.
Boston is a pretty cool place to run. The city has cool neighborhoods, a few parks, reservoirs and the Charles river to run along. Outlying areas have some beautiful state parks and rolling mixture of woods and small farms.
The people are wicked nice too. They actually are unless they are working, driving, or rooting for pro, college,high school, or little league sports.
Boulder, Flagstaff, Mammoth Lakes, Bend, Park City
top4 wrote:
Boulder, Flagstaff, Boise and Bend are my top four.
Tijuana.
No, boston sucks. It is a lousy place to run. You have to leave the city to get in a good run. If it was a great place to run there would be no need to have to get out to run.
The only plus is that there are several great indoor tracks, the downside is that the winter weather sucks and you need good indoor tracks.
The people suck, the traffic sucks, the weather sucks.
Stop with running along the Charles River as being great, unless you like a flat paved crowded bike path. How many runs along that boring, flat, paved, crowded stretch does it take to say uncle?
From places I've lived, Seattle has been my favorite. It's mild weather so you can run all year, any time of the day. Lots of hills too to mix it up as well.
San Francisco
Colorado Springs, if you're into trail/mountain running
SFO wrote:
San Francisco
No. It is a shithole.
Sterling Virginia!!
North Conway, NH
beans and franks. wrote:
No, boston sucks. It is a lousy place to run. You have to leave the city to get in a good run. If it was a great place to run there would be no need to have to get out to run.
The only plus is that there are several great indoor tracks, the downside is that the winter weather sucks and you need good indoor tracks.
The people suck, the traffic sucks, the weather sucks.
Stop with running along the Charles River as being great, unless you like a flat paved crowded bike path. How many runs along that boring, flat, paved, crowded stretch does it take to say uncle?
Sucks to be a sensitive, whining outsider doesn't it?
Red socks wrote:
Sucks to be a sensitive, whining outsider doesn't it?
No, I actually live here for the time being. Have lived in many better places to run, that is all.
not possible - the charles is the ONLY place to run. If you don't run there then your'e a nobody. Deal with it Susie.
Don't have to deal with it. I live outside the city, miles of trails within a mile of my house. Would never go INTO Boston to do a run.
beans and franks. wrote:
The only plus is that there are several great indoor tracks, the downside is that the winter weather sucks and you need good indoor tracks.
The people suck, the traffic sucks, the weather sucks.
Wow. You sound pretty depressed. Holidays gettin' to ya?
therealjbird17 wrote:
A previous post had me thinking, what are the best running towns/cities in the USA? My favorite would probably be Boulder, CO as it as at high altitude and a lot of access to trails.
You must live at sea level to consider Boulder to be "high altitude".
I think my city, Colorado Springs, is pretty darn good. Cost of living here is better than Boulder. Despite what people think, it is not a place where everyone goes to church 3x per week.
We have over 20 craft breweries in town and a very good race scene. In fact, there is a Brewers Cup where most brewers sponsor a team. We have a Tuesday night social run that attracts hundreds of runners (and walkers). Actually a decent night has over 1000 people signing in.
We have 3 specialty running stores. Two of which I know have regular runs.
The elite scene might not be that of Boulder, but I guess that is not as important to me. Been around enough elite athletes that it has to be someone extraordinary to make me notice.