I live in Des Moines and love it.
But training here in the winter sucks, it's cold, often windy, and there is snow everywhere.
You do get the Drake Relays every year and every once in a while Drake will host USATF Nationals or NCAA Nationals.
I live in Des Moines and love it.
But training here in the winter sucks, it's cold, often windy, and there is snow everywhere.
You do get the Drake Relays every year and every once in a while Drake will host USATF Nationals or NCAA Nationals.
Corvallis, OR is great - only 1 hour from Eugene and 90 mins from Portland so you'll always be within driving distance of good races. You could probably find something under $600 there. Only drawback is that if you aren't in school there probably isn't much for you to do there.
gahagand wrote:
Depends what you consider runnable weather, but Binghamton, NY is a small city (population about 250k) with really cheap living (I have friends paying $195/month), I only had a few days this winter where I had to run inside and most of the year it's quite pleasant.
^this
Please provide evidence of a "great running community" and I'll move there next year.
Armenia wrote:
Yerevan, Armenia. Gorgeous mountains in your backyard, great running community, thriving metropolitan city, and a short plane ride to Western Europe or Russia.
Des Moines Resident wrote:
I live in Des Moines and love it.
But training here in the winter sucks, it's cold, often windy, and there is snow everywhere.
You do get the Drake Relays every year and every once in a while Drake will host USATF Nationals or NCAA Nationals.
Can't say I know it well, have been for Drake a couple of times.
Are there good trails to run?
Bernitdown wrote:
Reno
living in an RV, parked in A Walmart parking lot in the Southwest.
You can lure Walmart shopper chicks to your lair for sex, too. They are usually hot.
ex-pat wrote:
Rural Italy, Portugal, Spain, Morocco or many eastern European countries.
Which Eastern European country is warm enough to run all year round? Even down south in the Balkans you can get 3 months snow cover..
Ciro wrote:
Des Moines Resident wrote:
I live in Des Moines and love it.
But training here in the winter sucks, it's cold, often windy, and there is snow everywhere.
You do get the Drake Relays every year and every once in a while Drake will host USATF Nationals or NCAA Nationals.
Can't say I know it well, have been for Drake a couple of times.
Are there good trails to run?
Lots of paved bike trails if that's what your after. If your looking for off road stuff, I wouldn't be the one to ask, I don't like getting my shoes dirty. :)
Sunny New Orleans, LA
Great running Community
Live in Brad Pitts post Katrina houses dirt cheap
* May get rained on some days
* Crime
*Poverty
Bernitdown wrote:
Reno
How is Carson City compared to Reno?
I'd say Houston checks 2 1/2 of the boxes. I rented a small 1 bedroom apartment there in 2013-2014 for $500 in a safe area close-ish to downtown (right on the loop). A quick Craigslist check seems to confirm there are still options for around $600.
There's a reasonable running community. There are asphalt trails on all the bayous that run through the city. Soft terrain at a couple of large parks in the city and large state park type areas a bit outside of town (~1hr from downtown). The weather is great 9 months of the year. Summer is really hot/humid, but you can get by running at dawn/dusk. Not sure if that sinks it for you...
Otherwise, it's a huge city with an abundance of jobs and the food scene is incredible.
Charleston, West Virginia
20 minutes south of Cleveland with the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
There is a reason rents are so cheap. Downtown is a ghost town.....stores closed, not even hotel ever fills up. You have to go to suburbs to see any decent people or activity.
Afghanistan.
Lots and lots of 14ers.
More than 50% of the country is about 7000 ft.
Some mountain ranges above 20k
Surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet: Pittsburgh
Africa. Always something to run away from.
ALBUQUERQUE ALBUQUERQUE ALBUQUERQUE - Find a place for less than $500, trails everywhere (foothills has lots of trails, bosque river trail, santa fe runs, placitas, north campus golf course, channel paths through out the city and more) altitude, Mild winter with almost no snow, hot but not humid summers, over 300 days of sunshine, elites train here and the list goes on.
AGAIN.
ALBUQUERQUE. TOTALLY UNDERRATED HERE.
Hands down the best altitude locations for year round training in the US. Flagstaff is one of the snowiest cities in the US, Boulder is one of the snowiest and windiest.... Mammoth, oh yeah its one of the snowiest taken up a notch. All those places are 10x more expensive.
ABQ, live at 6200 ft, training locations all the way down to 4900.