Ya, Boulder is over rated! There are no good trails to train on, no tracks you can run on, no good local races, no good people to train with, it rains all the time, its very cold, and the community at large will try to run you over if they see you running. Also, the water tastes terrible, the school systems are real bad, there is nothing to do there and if your a girl the shopping is horrible, oh ya, no good food either. Beyond that there are no endurance freaks like in Palo Alto, no good cyclists, no good triathletes (maybe a few decent foreigners like that Lessing bum), nothing interesting ever goes on, there is no good arts or music, the outdoor Shakespeare festival is dull, the downtown running series and Bolder Boulder are over rated and Webb, Kennedy, Lunn and all those fuzzy foreigners are actually never here just local freaks who look like those losers. Shorter, Barrios and Plajetes are all old and mean so you don't want to run into them, not that you ever would since they rarely come out of their holes. Oh, and that CU meet is small and silly at best. Some bums come up from Alamosa and Gunnison and give CU a run for their money on a gloomy fall day with no spectators, maybe a stray mutt or two and a lost coyote wandering the course. The local papers could care less about running and other endurance sports so no one gets any ink out here. Please save yourself and do not come to Boulder, the 2007 US Cross Country race will be a horrible disaster. Some one please save me from this aweful over rated place! Hurry!!!