What is the most overrated town to train in in the states?
What is the most overrated town to train in in the states?
Boulder, CO
I disagree. I just came in from a beautiful trail run with perfect cool conditions. I saw a fox and a heron.
The most overrated place to train is wherever you think you need to be to train better than you do now.
Midwest (most of it). A bunch of paved streets, car exhaust, unnatural routes & non-scenery..... when there's not snow on the ground. When I see pics of Boulder, Flagstaff or Silicon Valley, it's so far removed from the choices midwesters have. By far the best run I have is shown in this pic. To note, the pic doesn't cover some steep hills.
Got to agree with ttc. And I've never lived anywhere else.
However Madison is pretty nice from May until November.
Doesn't seem to stop the midwest from producing the majority of America's top distance runners.
It's a bit ridiculous to lump the entire Midwest into one "overrated" category. Some parts are pretty bleak, yes, but other parts are terrific.
Madison has great places to run and a strong community.
Same goes for Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Cedar Rapids, IA, has two excellent crushed limestone trails. Unfortunately, the local running scene is a complete bust.
The weather does suck though - very cold winters and hot summers.
Eugene
Big Thinker wrote:
The most overrated place to train is wherever you think you need to be to train better than you do now.
Oooh. Great answer!
Home is where you make it - I enjoy running most anywhere so long as I can avoid oppressive heat. I am a little disappointed though - have run in all states east of the Mississippi except Mississippi, and a number of Western states, but still missing 7 states from my life's experience (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, the Dakotas and Alaska and Hawaii). Maybe some day.
The asphalt bike paths around the lakes in Minneapolis are the single most overrated running feature on the entire planet. The rest of the place is fine; I just get tired of hearing how great it is to run around the lakes.
Camp Hill.
this place
quantum wrote:
Home is where you make it.
You like to see homos naked? Well ok dude, to each his own, but why post that in a thread concerning overrated places to train.
I live in the midwest and run tree covered trails daily that pass waterfalls, lakes, etc. I have lived in the southeast and think much of it is very overrated. The humidity in the summer can be so brutal that it just doesn't make up for the milder winters. A lot less trails and trees in most places as well.
Boston, and the Charles River.
J. Dirt wrote:
quantum wrote:Home is where you make it.
You like to see homos naked? Well ok dude, to each his own, but why post that in a thread concerning overrated places to train.
I live in the midwest and run tree covered trails daily that pass waterfalls, lakes, etc. I have lived in the southeast and think much of it is very overrated. The humidity in the summer can be so brutal that it just doesn't make up for the milder winters. A lot less trails and trees in most places as well.
Do you enjoy sucking your own cack in public?
HRE wrote:
Big Thinker wrote:The most overrated place to train is wherever you think you need to be to train better than you do now.
Oooh. Great answer!
I agree.
desert rodent wrote:
Boston, and the Charles River.
Although I think this is a pretty good answer, too.
You like to see homos naked?
I thought you were going to talk about Griffith Park in L.A.. I have definatly seen my share of that there. I will always remember running with a friend from out of town and we came across these 2 guys in the bushes and my friend stopped and started throwing rocks at them.
Flagstaff is overrated
