If Flagstaff is oversaturated, could Laramie (alt. ~7200 feet) be an alternative for high altitude training?

Posts denigrating Laramie's social life and the rather monastic lifestyle choice. Well, why are you going to train at altitude...? For the social life or train your butt off to maximize your potential?

Did guys like Hicham El G disappear into altitude camps at Ifrane for the night life? No. Train, eat, sleep. Become the greatest of all time. Laramie's tougher conditions compared to the paper soft Flagstaff will make you mentally tougher, faster. You are going there to live cheap, train, and get mentally molded into a solid diamond that will equate to PRs. Sure, if you want to vlog your training and enjoying the sweet life in places like Boulder or Flagstaff then this may not be the place for you.

Laramie is a blue collar town. Everyone works hard to survive. In the cold. In the wind. It is much like a bygone era of US distance running where we didn't complain as much and got the training done. Now we revert back to our comfort zones.

Woodland Park, Colo., is nice. 8,481 feet.

The good old times when we ate dirt and ran 150 miles a week.

Hilarious. It's ironic that you have to rant about how tough Laramie makes you, but the entire reason you went on the rant in the first place is because you got all butthurt over a couple trivial posts that didn't try to sugarcoat things. What a snowflake.

Taos is a great place to train. It’s true that there is a ski resort near by but Taos proper and Taos Ski Valley are not the same place. It’s not too expensive and there are a ton of great trails.

Shorter trained in Taos prior to one of his Olympic medals—not sure if it was 72 or 76.

-Signed, Laramie chamber of commerce

Dude, I was talking about Laramie and mentioned that CS is a better option that, while more expensive than Laramie, is cheaper than Boulder or Denver. And you don't know enough about Boulder to talk if that's all you know about the training landscape here. I can run a 10 mile loop mostly on paved, plowed paths in winter and see 2-8 other runners. And there are a myriad of runnable trails south of town.

Leadville exceeds all those criteria substantially.

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Our best marathoner in a generation lives and mostly trains in Portland, OR. Laramie might be fine for someone from the Dakotas who prefers to train alone. A treadmill in Laramie is still above 7000', right?

A far better option is Cloudcroft, NM. I think the elevation is around 8000', it's surrounded by national forest and dirt forest service roads. A 30' drive to Alamogordo gets you down under 4000'. Much milder winters than Laramie, Flag, Colorado Springs, Boulder bro.

This whole post is just OP trying to justify his choice to live in a crappy town.

What is this? Are we just going to list any obscure high elevation place now?

malauli wrote:

-Signed, Laramie chamber of commerce

-Signed, Laramie chamber of commerce

Located in the 5th trailer on the first street into two. It doesn't which way to come from.

dongdongdong wrote:

If you are into redneck white trash homophobic racist, choose Laramie, otherwise stay home.

It's interesting that people are actually being realistic about Laramie being sh!thole. Posts like Jamin's are what I typically associate with Letsrun. This place is a hard right, pro Trump cesspool, so I would have figured more people would sucking that place off and pretending like it's paradise. In reality it's a wasteland filled with white trash drug addicts who will break into your car as soon as you step away from it.

Evan Jogger wrote:

Our best marathoner in a generation lives and mostly trains in Portland, OR.

Khalid Khannouchi does not live in OR. He lives in NY.

bests wrote:

Evan Jogger wrote:

Our best marathoner in a generation lives and mostly trains in Portland, OR.

Khalid Khannouchi does not live in OR. He lives in NY.

^This!

Boulder bro

Minaj wrote:

dongdongdong wrote:

If you are into redneck white trash homophobic racist, choose Laramie, otherwise stay home.

It's interesting that people are actually being realistic about Laramie being sh!thole. Posts like Jamin's are what I typically associate with Letsrun. This place is a hard right, pro Trump cesspool, so I would have figured more people would sucking that place off and pretending like it's paradise. In reality it's a wasteland filled with white trash drug addicts who will break into your car as soon as you step away from it.

Then someone falls off the train, walks up the street and kills you for fun.

Jerry Maguire wrote:

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Altitude does not help enough to make up the negative impacts of how harsh the winter is there.

Ridiculous to suggest this place.

Run on treadmills just like the Ingebrigtsens

Filthy Fred wrote:

Evan Jogger wrote:

Our best marathoner in a generation lives and mostly trains in Portland, OR. Laramie might be fine for someone from the Dakotas who prefers to train alone. A treadmill in Laramie is still above 7000', right?

A far better option is Cloudcroft, NM. I think the elevation is around 8000', it's surrounded by national forest and dirt forest service roads. A 30' drive to Alamogordo gets you down under 4000'. Much milder winters than Laramie, Flag, Colorado Springs, Boulder bro.

What is this? Are we just going to list any obscure high elevation place now?

You saw the first post on this thread right? As in read fully and understand?? Hell, Rawlins is just as legit as Laramie.