Anyone know a place like this? Somewhere that has a 10 mile stretch of grass. Somewhere that a 140 mile per week runner can run and never really touch asphalt?
Anyone know a place like this? Somewhere that has a 10 mile stretch of grass. Somewhere that a 140 mile per week runner can run and never really touch asphalt?
Soccer fields?
Sometimes I've done 10+ mile runs around sports fields.
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Had Some Myself wrote:
Soccer fields?
Sometimes I've done 10+ mile runs around sports fields.
That sounds like fun..........NOT.
Maybe a golf course that you can run twice? Stay off the cart paths.
I need soft stuff wrote:
Anyone know a place like this? Somewhere that has a 10 mile stretch of grass. Somewhere that a 140 mile per week runner can run and never really touch asphalt?
I know a few places you can run and stay off the asphalt, but they aren't entirely grass.
The trail from Auburn, CA to Sacramento is dirt from Folsom to Auburn. It's only technical in spots so you can move at a pretty good pace if you want to. You can go about 20+ miles past Auburn before it starts to get technical. The trail goes all the way to Lake Tahoe and is part of the Western States 100 trail race.
There are also hundreds of miles of rails to trails in Wisconsin. It's wide and, I think, crushed limestone. I've run the sections around Onalaska on the southwestern side of the state.
In Florida the trail planners believe that all rails to trails should be a combo of asphalt and concrete, which 1000% sucks.
I was going to say "oh god another barefoot runner" thread until I read the 140 miles per week part.
To answer your question....find a sod farm somewhere..lol
I've done 10 miles on at a soccer complex before with a 1.8 mile loops around the fields. I've been kicked off the local golf course too many times.
I'm banged up right now and it hurts too much to run on anything but grass and soft dirt.
New Zealand.
Santa fe trail - CO Springs, CO
Pikes Peak Greenway/Monument Valley Trail - CO springs, CO