Best and Worst Places you ever trained

Best - trails in the Sierra in California, the Rockies in Colorado, and the Cascades in Washington, Oregon, and NorCal.

Worst - New Orleans (especially in the summer)

Southern Long Island is pretty damn boring and flat

Best: Boulder, CO

Worst: New Delhi, India

Best: Colorado Springs, CO

Konstanz, Germany

Worst: Brownsville/Matamoros, TX

Best: Seattle, WA

Worst: Bamian, Afghanistan (for an entire year)

Good:

Seattle, WA

Pullman, WA (undulating soft dirt farm roads)

Deer Valley, UT (altitude + trails)

Bend, OR (great trails)

Cyprus (10 months of perfect sun each year)

Washington DC (a lot of places to run)

Baghdad, Iraq (it was safe when I was there, a great packed dirt road, 10 miles went by in the blink of an eye)

Bad:

Victorville, CA (hot, windy, nowhere to go, full of tweakers)

Las Vegas, NV (great town that is a shithole for running)

Ali Al Salem, Kuwait (20 x 1/2 mile sand loop every day)

Out in the middle of nowhere Pakistan (back and forth on a runway)

So far I think the winner of this thread is the aircraft carrier guy. Has anyone ever trained on a submarine?...I'm sure that must be worse...

Best-Gunnison, CO

Worst-Rock Springs, WY

Best - Central Park. Probably an unpopular choice, but I love it. Tons of people out at any given time.

Worst - Houston. The humidity = hell. Plus hills are hard to come by.

Best - Vancouver, BC. Great parks and trails in the city and in north Vancouver. Love going there!

Worst - Modesto, California (and probably a half dozen other similar cities in California's central valley.) Even the city park's trails in my wife's hometown are dry, dusty, flat and dull.

A close second - Damascus, Syria. Everybody stares since you are running around in shorts.

A friend told me that there was a treadmill on his sub. And that was all that he could do to stay fit.

Did anyone on this thread mention training on a Cruise ship yet? That really blows. The engine spews CO2 in your face for half of every lap. Awful.

Best: San Francisco, CA

Worst: Puerto Vallarta, Mex; Las Vegas, NV

Best: Pullman WA

I'm actually surprised someone else already mentioned this. Went to grad school at WSU. You can go forever on dirt farm roads over moderately hilly terrain. Plus, the Pullman HS track almost never had anyone on it. I now live in Seattle and have learned to avoid the HS tracks with tons of gapers walking on the inside lanes.

Worst: Phoenix, AZ.

Hot, ugly, and a concrete jungle where I was. There were a few places I could drive to but it was mostly crap.

Crimson, where exactly in Phoenix? No matter what, it is better than Las Vegas.

Any recommendations for small/medium sized mountain towns (or towns with lots of uphill trails) in CA?

I'm living in Port Hueneme, CA now.

Thanks.

Ben

Best - Arcata, CA

Worst - Theodore, AL (home town) May - Sept.