Eclipse tonight
Eclipse tonight
Funkytown wrote:
I live just outside Portland. It's weird here. Though I suppose if you want a warm northern city in the USA there aren't many choices.
Sorry, I'm confused why "northern" is a positive or negative attribute for a city.
Portland is the worlds only 'Indian Reservation' for Caucasian Primitives.
BeenThere wrote:
Portland and Seattle are filled with neck beard flannel wearing fairies.
This.
Obviously some Portlanders are offended by this thread, but why are you pretending Portland is some utopia? Homelessness is a problem, and the trash/drugs/crime associated with them. The weather is dumpy this time of year. Traffic is a problem. Rent and housing prices are a problem. Every city has issues, why ignore them at home?
Skips Arm Day wrote:
What is wrong with Letsrun today? It's even more racist and sexist and straight up mean than usual. Is there a full moon or something?
Portland is the whitest city in America with one of the highest male to female ratios. So, Portland bashing is immune from complaints of racism and sexism.
I live here and I agree. The city has gone to crap in the past several years. I have sympathy for the homeless (not the meth heads) but it's very frustrating to not be able to walk/ run down a sidewalk without having to go around a tent camp and the piles of garbage most leave behind. Our government is more worried about where the next bike lane should be than helping find a way to help get affordable housing.
Thought Seattle was the worst place, then visited Portland. Gross!
The Barack Obama Regime wrote:
I like the geography and trees but the people who reside in Portland should be exterminated like Palestinians.
Another one who doesn't want to be referred to as a dangerous fascist
Glad comments like this don't get moderated out. Speaks highly of the site
LetsRun.com, making the sport great again by allowing extermination comments about the American populace that just hosted indoor worlds
All liberals deserve extermination threats. - LetsRun.com
But Portland has Voodoo Donuts....
Twinn wrote:
The weather is dumpy this time of year.
It's perfect if you're a distance runner.
Suite Lou wrote:
Track fans should NEVER disparage Portland or Oregon. Whatever they've got going on works for track and field. No other place in the US comes close to supporting distance running like they do.
There is obviously a strong elite distance running scene in Portland, but I think Boston has the better scene for club and rec runners.
timetravel1 wrote:
Twinn wrote:The weather is dumpy this time of year.
It's perfect if you're a distance runner.
Right, because every distance runner likes to wring out the rainwater from their socks every run. It's rained every day in March except two.
Portland has hipster glass making factories that spew nasty chemicals into the air.
In fact, Portland has some of the worst air in the nation.
Runners here ignore it because if you can't smell or see it they pretend the problem doesn't exist.
But the latest air quality scare from "boutique" glass factories is actually nothing new. The air quality has been known to be bad for a long time.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/05/portlands_dirty_secret_its_air.html
Hipsters here also pollute the air with their wood stoves.
"I'm so green with my wood stove!"
PM2.5 damage to the lungs is very understudied.
Portland has its problems, but good things too. Donuts is not one of them.
milethon wrote:
Suite Lou wrote:Track fans should NEVER disparage Portland or Oregon. Whatever they've got going on works for track and field. No other place in the US comes close to supporting distance running like they do.
There is obviously a strong elite distance running scene in Portland, but I think Boston has the better scene for club and rec runners.
I can't speak to Boston's club scene. You might be right but without even debating details a track fan can only look at Portland and Oregon and say "that is working".
Portland is just another political-leftist sh-thole. Just like Seattle, just like San Fran, etc...
Suite Lou wrote:
milethon wrote:There is obviously a strong elite distance running scene in Portland, but I think Boston has the better scene for club and rec runners.
I can't speak to Boston's club scene. You might be right but without even debating details a track fan can only look at Portland and Oregon and say "that is working".
In what way? The evidence that Oregon "works" for track is the same that Philadelphia "works" for track.
And what does that even mean Suite Lou, "...supporting distance running like they do?" Boston supports pieces distance competition neglected by Portland (Indoor, Road, club scene), for example.
Reiterating what I said earlier but now specifically for running, it is silly to uphold Portland as some kind of Utopia. It doesn't do any good for those here, or those who think its good to emulate whatever is going on here.
It's just a place.
I have friends who moved from the NC Mountains to Portland and they say the running is horrible.
Maybe if you're running on the Nike campus it's OK (seriously, I think I would go nuts running around and around that Al Sal field). As for the rest of the city, over priced housing, horrible traffic, humidity and ghetto downtown. Note: they are well off, 2 physicians and would often travel to NYC/DC for cultural events for the kids.
Bleu wrote:
I have friends who moved from the NC Mountains to Portland and they say the running is horrible.
Maybe if you're running on the Nike campus it's OK (seriously, I think I would go nuts running around and around that Al Sal field). As for the rest of the city, over priced housing, horrible traffic, humidity and ghetto downtown. Note: they are well off, 2 physicians and would often travel to NYC/DC for cultural events for the kids.
Not to sound like a broken record, but their disappointment comes from that expectation that Portland (or anywhere for that matter) is runners' heaven on Earth.
The running does suck if you don't live in the right part of town. I could say that about Portland, Chicago, NYC, Des Moines, Baton Rouge or Omaha. I'd choose a prime spot in Omaha for example, with a good network of bike paths, over deep SE Portland, with few green areas, off-road running and easily accessible tracks. Drier and cheaper too.
Forest Park exists. Are you going to drive there every day, or even twice a day? The historic Dunaway track? Good luck in the winter when its dark at 4:30.
I'm not trying to rip on Portland, or even the the hype over Portland. The problem is people not doing their homework, or setting expectations with no bearing in reality. Not unique to Portland or Oregon, or wherever..
homebody wrote:
Love it when the flyover states weigh in.
Love a Portlander trying to act all big time. Your City doesn't matter to anyone besides hipsters and Rupp wannabes. Making fun of flyover country is like a midget making fun of a leprechaun for being short.