Any of you train right outside your front door?

Strangely enough, I have four loops that I run from my front door that measure EXACTLY 4, 6, 8, and 10 miles. I didn't have to engineer these distances by looping multiple times around blocks or taking stupid detours or anything - they just worked out that way. Probably pretty lame, but I was very pleased the first week that I lived here. I don't use them very often, because I got bored with these routes a long time ago, but it's nice to know they're there.

Funny enough, I almost always start and finish from my front door, and if I run 4.15 miles instead of 4 or 15.90 not 16, my legs don't seem to mind.

Then again, I'm the ADD type of runner (all runners who frequent online fora being either ADD or OCD) so these fractions of a mile don't bother me.

Yes

if i had to drive somewhere just to run, id probably just go work out at a gym and lift instead. one of the reasons i run is because it is a convenient.

I go out the back door.

For most days I do because of time constraints.

I like to go somewhere else for a long run though.

The major roads in my area are all 1 mile apart so the blocks are 4 mile loops yielding many options. (4-6-8-10-12)

When it's real cold or real hot doing 4-6 mile loops around the house is handy for setting fliuds out or in case I get too cold.

I always felt bad for people who couldn't train right out their front/back door.

I can do a flat recovery run, hilly hard run, I can be in a small city in a few minutes and out in the country in 10 minutes. Long hills out in the country, short, steep hills here in town. 2 miles to a track (1.8 actually). The only thing I don't have are trails- enough to do some miles.

Even in the snow, I can stay on sideroads tha are usually plowed by 5-6am and I don't have to worry about too much traffic.

I've measured a few different routes and I'll add up different variations for different mileage. Neighborhood loop is .75 miles, to the second entrance and back is 800 meters, keep going to the store and back is 4 miles, to the right and the dead end and back is 2 miles and I've got two longer ones that wind different for 7 and 14 miles out and back. It's pretty handy.

As for the neighborhood loop, I live in tampa so in the summer months when it gets overbearingly hot to run I've found that running my smaller neighborhood loop is pretty good. I just stick a cooler on my tailgate and jog laps around the neighborhood and use that as my water stop, dump some ice on my head, do another lap or two..repeat.

I get about 60ish right from home per week in the evenings and on the weekends. I do at least a 10 miler every morning before work out where my work is located. This way I get a little bit of variance in my running.

I go out my garage door so I don't have to carry a key.

My only problem is that I live on a 55 mph state highway with narrow shoulders, in a very snowy area. So Jan-Feb and well into March I don't run from my house, since all in all I'd like to live many more years. Treadmill time.

I live in a valley, so like another poster, I can choose flat, rolling, very hilly, etc. when the roads are clear.

When I lived in a city I could go out my door any time of year, and quickly get to a good, usually plowed, park, but I didn't have the terrain choices that I do here.

The downside of running out the door as opposed to driving to a popular running site is that I don't have anybody to run with. At my old park there was always somebody else there. I've been at this place for 3 years and it was only last week that I saw another runner on the road.

I've got loops ranging from 3 miles to 22 miles that all begin at my front door.

Lately with the high humidity in the south I've strung together 3 separate loops of 7, 6, and 5 miles that all start/finish at the house. I stop for a quick drink after I run each loop. Good thing is, I can extend each loop to about 8 miles each if I ever wanted to get in a 24 miler (which I don't see happening any time soon).

i would imagine just about everyone trains right from their front doori run at least 7 days a week - it would involve a lot of transportation if i couldn't do it at least most of the time out my front doorI am fortunate to have two all-weather tracks within a 15 minute run of my house so I do my speedwork running from home as well

NLS wrote:

I've got loops ranging from 3 miles to 22 miles that all begin at my front door.

Lately with the high humidity in the south I've strung together 3 separate loops of 7, 6, and 5 miles that all start/finish at the house. I stop for a quick drink after I run each loop. Good thing is, I can extend each loop to about 8 miles each if I ever wanted to get in a 24 miler (which I don't see happening any time soon).

I would guess you run at most 7 days a week also.

[quote]anEconomist wrote:

i run at least 7 days a week - it would involve a lot of transportation if i couldn't do it at least most of the time out my front door

[quote]NLS wrote:

I was so pumped when I recently moved - used to live in a development right off a very busy 4 lane road with many semi's blazing past and recently moved to a more established residential area with the old-fashioned interconnecting neighborhoods - it has been awesome. I also am about 2 miles from a pine-straw/dirt trail through the woods (only about 1.5 miles of trail total) and the river, which has a soft trail running along it, and it rules. I do all my runs from my front door now and I am very appreciative.

I almost always start from my front door. It's just more convenient that way. I have loops that vary from 1.5 miles up to 8, so I can run almost any distance I choose by mixing up the loops.

I am also fortunate that I have two all-weather tracks that are exactly 2 miles from the house; just about the perfect warm-up.

My biggest problem is the bike trail system in my area. There's a creek that runs through there, and it floods big-time whenever it rains. The city won't dredge because "it's not natural." I guess putting 150 houses on top of the hill and having the run-off go into the creek against its natural flow is natural.

As a result, I have the 1.5 and 2.5-mile loops because they don't go onto the trail system.

I am very blessed to live on a street that is a designated bike/run path. Several road races go right past my front door. I get to feel like an elite and have my own personal water stop!

I usually start my long runs from home. I have routes measured and can always add a few laps at the HS track which is just down the road. On hot days, soaking in the backyard pool afterwards is a bonus!

About 20% of the time.

I love variety and don't hesitate to drive to a running spot.

I go out the back door usually, sometimes the front door, but not very often. Once, when I lost my keys, I had to go out of the window.