zxcvzxvc wrote:
Affording to live in NYC is a problem, no doubt, but living in NYC is great and training there is excellent in many ways, because you have at least four fantastic hilly parks to train and race in (Central Park, Van Cortland, Prospect, Forest Hills, then you can go on weekend runs sometimes up at Rockefeller on carriage trails), a handful of tracks that are actually open to the public, which you can't say about a lot of places, plenty of people to run with and do workouts with, no worries about access to water and bathrooms, three huge airports+rail, and great xc, track, and road racing series right there.
The part about the tracks open to the public is irrelevant, since most pro groups work out a deal to use a track of one isn't open to the public.
The parks are nice, but most suburb areas have plenty of accessible parks like that, plus usually have some sort of bike path or green space running through so you don't need to commute to the start of your easy runs.
Really the only thing NYC has going for it for a pro group is that it is a fun place for young people to live.
Although this all seems like an academic discussion, since it looks like atalanta is basically dead.