Its good because you can live high and train low (shortish drive to lower elevation towns). Lots of top runners there. Facilities for elites in town and at NAU. Town is built up enough now that athletes won't get bored when not training.
Its good because you can live high and train low (shortish drive to lower elevation towns). Lots of top runners there. Facilities for elites in town and at NAU. Town is built up enough now that athletes won't get bored when not training.
What kind of facilities?
Tracks, gyms, doctor's offices, pools, whatever runners need. They are probably easier to access than elsewhere and more endurance athlete focused (ie the gym won't be 70 with no air flow). The doctors will know more than to tell you go rice, you can walk so you're good to go when injured.
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Sounded to smart like Rojo so delleet
Laramie can't even begin to compare aside from the altitude
The number of soft surfaces to run on in Flagstaff is astounding. And you're in a really cool college town (FLG) instead of a really boring wasteland (Laramie)
Flagstaff is way more dog friendly too fwiw
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...sounds like an article you should have written then...
As writing an article is work as work takes away from nap time and TV watching time as writing requires spelling as us brojos do not work and do not miss nap or TV time and do not spell.
From the article, good to see the below receive deserved & earned credit. The Mammoth Lakes / Team Running USA training group (2001-09) changed positively the trajectory and mentality of American distance running.
>>But it fell to former UCLA coach Bob Larsen and Joe Vigil, who coached distance runners for the U.S. Olympic team, to push that science forward when they took their athletes to the 7,900-foot altitude of Mammoth Lakes ahead of the 2004 Athens Olympics. In the previous 16 years, only one American had medaled in an Olympic event longer than 800 meters, but after living at altitude in Mammoth and training down the hill in Bishop, Meb Keflezighi broke the American record at 10,000 meters, then finished second in the men’s marathon, and Deena Kastor broke the American record in the women’s 10,000 and was third in the Athens marathon.<<
Laramie can't even begin to compare aside from the altitude
The number of soft surfaces to run on in Flagstaff is astounding. And you're in a really cool college town (FLG) instead of a really boring wasteland (Laramie)
Flagstaff is way more dog friendly too fwiw
Ha ya. I'd rather live at sea level than in Laramie. Wasteland is an apt description.
I went to flag for the month of April this year and loved every second of it. From doing a workout with jakob to seeing countless pros everyday. Great weather and people
Robert: Historical background in the article was interesting. I was surprised to learn that Flagstaff was a center for altitude prep prior to the 68’ Olympics - I would have thought South Lake Tahoe, where the Oly trials were held.
Crazy that the place was hopping in 1968 but by 2000 essentially no one was there and "high-low" was a novel concept.
I went to flag for the month of April this year and loved every second of it. From doing a workout with jakob to seeing countless pros everyday. Great weather and people
Excited to go back soon
Did he just let you hop in his workout? How fast are you? This sounds like a great story. Feel free to email me
From the article, good to see the below receive deserved & earned credit. The Mammoth Lakes / Team Running USA training group (2001-09) changed positively the trajectory and mentality of American distance running.
>>But it fell to former UCLA coach Bob Larsen and Joe Vigil, who coached distance runners for the U.S. Olympic team, to push that science forward when they took their athletes to the 7,900-foot altitude of Mammoth Lakes ahead of the 2004 Athens Olympics. In the previous 16 years, only one American had medaled in an Olympic event longer than 800 meters, but after living at altitude in Mammoth and training down the hill in Bishop, Meb Keflezighi broke the American record at 10,000 meters, then finished second in the men’s marathon, and Deena Kastor broke the American record in the women’s 10,000 and was third in the Athens marathon.<<
They run on the roads in Mammoth or those really rocky rocky fire roads by the track. The place honestly sucks and no one wants to go there anymore.
In all honesty, what compares? Switzerland and Kenya are lovely, but they don't check all the boxes.
I don't think there really is an altitude training location in Europe - which is why so many europeans go to Kenya. Probably are great places to train in the rift valley - but other than for pros, it doesn't matter as its cost prohibitive in one way or another.
There is, st moritz. Its the most beautiful altitude training place on earth. Do you even follow track? Ever heard of the Ingebrigtsens? Mo Farah?
Laramie can't even begin to compare aside from the altitude
The number of soft surfaces to run on in Flagstaff is astounding. And you're in a really cool college town (FLG) instead of a really boring wasteland (Laramie)
Flagstaff is way more dog friendly too fwiw
What is with Americans and a weird obsession with dogs? You bring them into restaurants, malls, airplanes, and even a cinema. Besides the dangerous driving and cartoonishly fat people, it was one of the oddities that really stood out for our group.
I don't think there really is an altitude training location in Europe - which is why so many europeans go to Kenya. Probably are great places to train in the rift valley - but other than for pros, it doesn't matter as its cost prohibitive in one way or another.
There is, st moritz. Its the most beautiful altitude training place on earth. Do you even follow track? Ever heard of the Ingebrigtsens? Mo Farah?
St. Moritz is where the true elite go. Chiavenna is right there for the train low component. Those who can't afford it train in Font-Romeu, or Kenya, or the U.S. If you've been there, you know.
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