Wow, thanks for all the replies. This is all really helpful. Im gonna be in Burlington from the 22nd through prob the 10th or 11th of January, but we come back early for practice and a meet, but I definately will try to get in contact with people to run with, and I will scout out all the runs you guys have mentioned.
Bruce, I think you mean the track at Norwich University in the town of Northfield, which is a solid hour drive from Burlington.
Running in the winter sucks, but if you can get out of work by 3:30 you can take advantage of tons of great dirt roads outside of the burlington area.
Yup, Bruce Hyde is the guy. Mint Henk runs for N. Arizona, too. Erin Sullivan and Tara Chaplin are from that area of VT, too.
Once the snow melts you'll love Catamount family Center-lots of trains, most of it hilly, but awesome. There's also the aforementioned bike path, and also the Burlington Intervale. That's a nice flat uninhabited area with trails, woods and corn fields. Red rocks is great, too. I also liked the UVM loop around the golf course. I think they might have paved it, though:-( There's also Causeway park, which is an abandoned railway that sticks out 3 miles right into the middle of the Lake. It will take your breath away.
As for tracks, the UVM track is kind of hard and only .1 mile. I hear the one at the Raquet's Edge in Essex is softer and larger.
Happy running, lucky f***in bastard!
d2xccoach wrote:
Not much in the way of indoor tracks. UVM has an 11 to the mile track but access can be challenging.
That piece of shit condemned long ago by the NCAA is actually 10 laps to the mile, or more accurately, 160 meters. Or at least it was a dozen years ago and I doubt they've done a whole lot of work on it. A dirt infield spells coughing aplenty. Stay the f*** out of there.