Are people serious with the Oregon chatter? I moved for work a little while back and am from the northeast. I would say Boston is much much worse just because of the humidity. If you're in Eugene/Salem/Portland it almost never snows. Winters stay 30-45 degrees. In the summer it's still 50-60 in the morning on days that it hits 100 and there's no humidity so evening runs are plenty doable. There are very few days you can't wear shorts to run. It's pretty ideal for training
Iowa!
Freezing cold 6 months out of the year. More snow than even South Dakota.
Then in the summer, thanks to all the farms and corn, the humidity is wicked!
Terrible place for a runner.
FightFor15 wrote:
Are people serious with the Oregon chatter? I moved for work a little while back and am from the northeast. I would say Boston is much much worse just because of the humidity. If you're in Eugene/Salem/Portland it almost never snows. Winters stay 30-45 degrees. In the summer it's still 50-60 in the morning on days that it hits 100 and there's no humidity so evening runs are plenty doable. There are very few days you can't wear shorts to run. It's pretty ideal for training
Boston is humid? Hahahaaaaaaa. Try Washington DC or Philly.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Trained there for a summer. It was miserable. Hot, humid, and there's only 1 or two "good" places to run, and in those places you can't run >7 miles without repeating a route. It's tough for me to fathom how Alabama fields a functioning cross team let alone a good MD stud every once in a while.
Alan Bennet wrote:
Prison.
Not for the guy in Jericho Mile
I lived in Juneau AK for a few years. It was an awesome place for mountain running and the running community there is wonderful. It is a temperate rainforest though, so I had soggy shoes often.
My friend moved for Barrow for several years and was always posting Facebook pics of her 10-20 mile runs, with miles and miles of flat stretching all around, little icicles all over her face. Seemed unsafe to me with all the polar bear warnings she'd be posting about, but also seemed like she really enjoyed it and learned to love running there.
I think the worst place to run has to be somewhere flat, hot, and humid... But most of all, flat for miles and miles as far as the eye can see. So boring.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Most of Texas is rough. Our college cross country team had a shotgun pulled on us. That was out in the boonies, but I was also shot with a BB gun in the suburbs. Not to mention the constant street harassment everywhere, the heat, etc. There are plenty of good things about Texas, but running isn't among them unless you're in Austin.
Funny responses here without any mentions of EVERY big city country, all of which which contain neighborhoods where most folks would not even drive through for safety reasons let alone go for a light run at dusk.
+1 For Pittsburgh. I haven't really found great running areas in nearly four years of living here. Granted I live on the North Side, but still.
Las Vegas sucks. I ended up running around the UNLV campus.
Alan Bennet wrote:
Prison.
Don't they have treadmills there?
Pelican Bay?
Frick Park? Schenley Park? I live in NY now but miss the running in Pittsburgh terribly.
FightFor15 wrote:
Are people serious with the Oregon chatter? I moved for work a little while back and am from the northeast. I would say Boston is much much worse just because of the humidity. If you're in Eugene/Salem/Portland it almost never snows. Winters stay 30-45 degrees. In the summer it's still 50-60 in the morning on days that it hits 100 and there's no humidity so evening runs are plenty doable. There are very few days you can't wear shorts to run. It's pretty ideal for training
I think they are joking. The problem with Oregon is the place is bursting at the seams... so many people are moving here. Good for my house resale value, but TBH I no longer feel safe on some of the city trails. Have to watch for needles too.
As a runner, it is perfect. Other aspects, not so much. You can find better.
It takes forever to get anywhere rushhour. You plan life around traffic now. We're talking maybe worse than L.A traffic because the roads aren't as wide.
bummedHamstring wrote:
I lived in Juneau AK for a few years. It was an awesome place for mountain running and the running community there is wonderful. It is a temperate rainforest though, so I had soggy shoes often.
My friend moved for Barrow for several years and was always posting Facebook pics of her 10-20 mile runs, with miles and miles of flat stretching all around, little icicles all over her face. Seemed unsafe to me with all the polar bear warnings she'd be posting about, but also seemed like she really enjoyed it and learned to love running there.
I think the worst place to run has to be somewhere flat, hot, and humid... But most of all, flat for miles and miles as far as the eye can see. So boring.
Agreed on the Alaska part. In my mind, it does not get much worse than the midwest. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Can't imagine living there, let alone feeling psyched enough to run.
Try running in southern CA. Where I live, I can't go one block without getting looks from all direction, and my unfortunate location in the middle of a city makes me a target of almost getting hit by cars, awful weather and pollution, and shin splints. Good luck!
I will also add though that the people talking about places like rural Louisiana, Miss, Alabama, etc are spot on. Those places are really tough as well, especially when you add in all the retarded people who don't really believe in exercise surrounding you.
Anywhere on the West coast kicks ass for running, with the exception of inland California , as described by another poster. The eastern borders of California is like straight out of that movie The Hills Have Eyes.
Some Prisons do, others do not. They vary what is available. Often you are left with running a cement track that can vary from 1/8 mile to 1/4 mile all while dodging around groups of people walking and blocking the way. To be able to get to a prison with a treadmill you often have to wait till you make minimum custody then there you have to deal with only having 1 or 2 for several hundred inmates so they are often occupied. The plus side is the time available to train.
DC. Almost got hit by a car twice today.
Eric Liljenberg wrote:
Some Prisons do, others do not. They vary what is available. Often you are left with running a cement track that can vary from 1/8 mile to 1/4 mile all while dodging around groups of people walking and blocking the way. To be able to get to a prison with a treadmill you often have to wait till you make minimum custody then there you have to deal with only having 1 or 2 for several hundred inmates so they are often occupied. The plus side is the time available to train.
Hmmmm, you seem to know a lot about this. What's your BOP number, Eric?
Really? A black man dressed in running clothes and running shoes is considered up to no good by EVERY white person? Everywhere? Not in my town.