while you're out there you can hcekc out round valley and spruce run reservoirs - lots of great runnign out in the hunterdon county area too.
basically there are good places scattered all around northern nj (don't know much about south jersey running) - basically stay out of hoboken and you'll be ok.
surprising that nobody has mentioned allaire yet. great ocean county park where you can get a great long run in. just watch for ticks in the summertime.
Yeah, and the Times yesterday front paged a report on metro NYC having the highest incidence of heart disease and fatalities in the nation. I guess we're all just stress monsters.
Meanwhile, I would recommend any place in Morris or Bergen counties. I have no idea who administers what parks but there are lots of great places to live and run.
Orange or Rockland coounties would fit this guy's needs too. Or any of the towns along the Hudson River all the way up to Newburgh. (althoug not Newburgh itself which has lots of problems.)
Doosey wrote:
Prata... as in Jeff Prata, right? Didn't you live or grow up in Jersey somewhere? And I'm pretty sure I've raced you in Jersey before, too... maybe on a trip home to the 'rents place?
That's me. I grew up in Union and go back about once a year to visit relatives. I will actually be there next weekend to run the half marathon in Central Park if I can get on a standby flight.
Who's asking?
Glen Rock
Fair Lawn
Saddle River
Ridgewood
Great places to live, IMHO, and only about 1hr commute, via train, downtown.
Munson wrote:
cardiac kid wrote:Montclair, NJ.
Pee all over Morristown/Madison
Much much closer to nyc then Thurston Howel III Morristown et al crowd.
Gotta agree with you. I'd go Maplewood or South Orange over the Morristown area for proximity to the city, really nice running in South Mountain.
Morristown is god-awful white bread horse country. No place for the young and single.
Clearly you've never seen Morristown High get out at the end of the day. "White bread" is not exactly what I would call it. Why dont you take a trip down to the hollow and let me know about "white bread horse country."
Morristown has got some money but it has got a lot of everything else too.
Take your white bread crap to Greenwich.
He was thinking of Bernardsville. Meanwhile, there's Summit, Millburn, etc... on that train line. and LOL I haven't heard anyone call it Mo'town in a while.
Ran 14 @ Lewis Morris on Sunday, good place to run. Thanks.