How far would you drive to your run?

I've driven 45 minutes for a 30 minute run. Yeah, 30 minutes, not LRDC material I know. But dammit, its a nice park!

Anything less than 3 miles away is silly to drive to. Just run there. For a weekday run, I don't like to drive more than about 10 minutes, so I usually just end up running from my home.

For weekends I've driven 45 minutes for a 15 mile long run, but that's pretty much it.

My feet have been really want to run on soft surfaces lately and the best soft surface paths are about 30 minutes away. For those weekend long runs, I could do it but for those weekday 10-15 mile runs, it's another hour lost due to driving. I work full-time so it doesn't make sense to make the drive.

0 miles. It's ridiculous to drive to go running.

Lazy L wrote:

0 miles. It's ridiculous to drive to go running.

Maybe from where you live, but its ignorant to assume all others are in your situation

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First of all, I didn't assume anything - I was just stating an opinion.

But in any case, I really can't fathom a set of circumstances that would be soooo bad that you'd have to drive just to get a daily run in, and I've lived in a variety of different places.

I drive about 7 minutes to the same trails for all of my runs.

Lazy L wrote:

0 miles. It's ridiculous to drive to go running.

If you drive you can leave your drink bottle in the car... that way you don't need a fanny pack.

I am able to run from home - couple of road loops and some hilly nearby trails within 2km that are quite good.

Often I drive ~5k to a large grass field for recovery runs to get on the soft surface and 20-25mins to possibly the best dirt/gravel track and bush trails on the planet for long runs.

Lazy L wrote:

First of all, I didn't assume anything - I was just stating an opinion.

But in any case, I really can't fathom a set of circumstances that would be soooo bad that you'd have to drive just to get a daily run in, and I've lived in a variety of different places.

Here's a set of circumstances that causes me todrive to do my runs:

In the winter time, I go to and get home from work in the dark. Where I live is pretty rural, just outside a small town. The roads near my house are not very wide and have no sidewalks, and they are even more narrow when it has snowed. Running on them in the dark is asking to get hit.

I drive about 3 miles into town to run a 4 mile loop 2-3 times on the sidewalks because it is lit.

I'm very lucky - if I like I could do every run out of my front door running 80-90% of my miles on hardpacked dirt trail, not the prettiest trail, but trail nonetheless.

For weekend long runs 18mi-40mi I've driven up to 2 hours one way. Usually I can hit a Kananaskis trailhead in 45 minutes so I'll be out there.

I drove ~40 miles each way today for a nice run, that's about the norm for running with any kind of group run, which I don't get to do often because of the distance

I do 95% of my runs from my front door, but have driven 25 or so miles to run with a group that has some really cool people in it-maintaining relationships I guess. It is long, but the fun times are worth it.

Live in SoCal. There are trails near me but they are gnarly, not going to get under 10 minute pace trails - no fun to run there. About 6 days a week, I drive to run. There is a packed bike path along the water 15 miles away. Its ok, but if I want to do any fast running this is a bad option as I will be constantly dodging bikers, swervy kids, skaters, etc.

I drive 24-28 miles to do any fast running - there are a few options along the coast in this range. One has a 3 mile long trail with soccer fields across the road from one end of it that are not being used about 1 in 20 times I go there. The other 2 options are on the road, but there is a big neighborhood to run in and a 400 foot hill (the hill area is in a park that is always packed though - the trails in the park suck to run on like the ones where I live).

I keep going further to find places to run, but inside of 60 miles I can not find any option that is on par with the 24-28 miles away ones.

I can run from home when I have to. There are boring neighborhoods to run in, bike lanes along 55 mph roads. Bike lanes with cars parked in them, and views of desert fringe hills. If I go after classes get out, there is a community college I can run around too - its a 1.5 mile loop and I get to run by locked up athletic fields and a locked up track. There are enough speed bumps in the neighborhoods and the community college that even a tempo here isn't that great.

Oh and I've driven as far as 2 hrs for a training run before. This is like a once a year thing though as driving that much is exhausting. I don't even like to drive an hour to run.

Farthest I drive is 30 minutes for weekly group long runs or mid week group workouts.

50 miles. But I don't run. And I don't have a driving license.

Most of us dont 'have to' drive. Sometimes we (I) WANT to. I'll drive about 25 miles to one of my favorite long run spots once in a while.