Everyone seems to be going crazy by wanting to go to Kenya to train. Why can't we just stay at home and stil go altitude training? For someone who has never been to altitude what are the cheaper towns to rent in, surely afew places in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona or Utah are not too expensive and how do these compare to the usual suggestions like Boulder, Flagstaff etc?
Pay by the week hotels in CO. Cheap.
AK is probably the cheapest, pretty cold though
urban runner wrote:
Everyone seems to be going crazy by wanting to go to Kenya to train. Why can't we just stay at home and stil go altitude training? For someone who has never been to altitude what are the cheaper towns to rent in, surely afew places in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona or Utah are not too expensive and how do these compare to the usual suggestions like Boulder, Flagstaff etc?
Many placing in Wyoming that are dirt cheap. Cheap energy, Cheap rents, no state income tax. No distractions.
Take Evanston about an hr away from Salt Lake. It's at 6800 feet.
Camp high in the mountains of CO or elsewhere...free rent.
Are there towns that you could rent and feed yourself from $100 a week?
I remember Pocatello ID being really cheap when I was there, it's only at 4500' but you can run up the mountian trails right from town up to 6000'.
Running on Empathy wrote:
I remember Pocatello ID being really cheap when I was there, it's only at 4500' but you can run up the mountian trails right from town up to 6000'.
But what's the point of that? If you're going to take the trouble to go to altitude, you need to actually go to a place where you are AT altitude. 4500 is not sufficient altitude and running up to 6000 doesn't do anything but give you a long hill workout.
You need to probably be STAYING at at least 6000.
front range area (ft collins - denver - co springs, probably. Mountains-wise: anywhere south of hwy 285 and hwy50 (ie. away from resort/touristy areas).
ewad wrote:
front range area (ft collins - denver - co springs, probably. Mountains-wise: anywhere south of hwy 285 and hwy50 (ie. away from resort/touristy areas).
I would not call any of the places along the front range cheap.
There are several sites that will break down the cost of living for you.
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