Tracks, gyms, doctor's offices, pools, whatever runners need. They are probably easier to access than elsewhere and more endurance athlete focused (ie the gym won't be 70 with no air flow). The doctors will know more than to tell you go rice, you can walk so you're good to go when injured.
From the article, good to see the below receive deserved & earned credit. The Mammoth Lakes / Team Running USA training group (2001-09) changed positively the trajectory and mentality of American distance running.
>>But it fell to former UCLA coach Bob Larsen and Joe Vigil, who coached distance runners for the U.S. Olympic team, to push that science forward when they took their athletes to the 7,900-foot altitude of Mammoth Lakes ahead of the 2004 Athens Olympics. In the previous 16 years, only one American had medaled in an Olympic event longer than 800 meters, but after living at altitude in Mammoth and training down the hill in Bishop, Meb Keflezighi broke the American record at 10,000 meters, then finished second in the men’s marathon, and Deena Kastor broke the American record in the women’s 10,000 and was third in the Athens marathon.<<
They run on the roads in Mammoth or those really rocky rocky fire roads by the track. The place honestly sucks and no one wants to go there anymore.
Imagine thinking this? Hundreds of teams go there and tons of camps every Summer to train. Mammoth is a great place for training in the Summer.
Laramie can't even begin to compare aside from the altitude
The number of soft surfaces to run on in Flagstaff is astounding. And you're in a really cool college town (FLG) instead of a really boring wasteland (Laramie)
Flagstaff is way more dog friendly too fwiw
Dunno when you lived in Laramie, but the entire Pilot hill area is new and tons of trails and soft surfaces. Plus you can train low in Fort Collins (65 miles away @ 4900 feet).
Laramie can't even begin to compare aside from the altitude
The number of soft surfaces to run on in Flagstaff is astounding. And you're in a really cool college town (FLG) instead of a really boring wasteland (Laramie)
Flagstaff is way more dog friendly too fwiw
What is with Americans and a weird obsession with dogs? You bring them into restaurants, malls, airplanes, and even a cinema. Besides the dangerous driving and cartoonishly fat people, it was one of the oddities that really stood out for our group.
Our atomized society is comprised of lonely people. Thus dogs, comfort food.
Laramie can't even begin to compare aside from the altitude
The number of soft surfaces to run on in Flagstaff is astounding. And you're in a really cool college town (FLG) instead of a really boring wasteland (Laramie)
Flagstaff is way more dog friendly too fwiw
Dunno when you lived in Laramie, but the entire Pilot hill area is new and tons of trails and soft surfaces. Plus you can train low in Fort Collins (65 miles away @ 4900 feet).