Anyone know good places to run in the Seattle area, more specifically the Renton, Newcastle area?
Anyone know good places to run in the Seattle area, more specifically the Renton, Newcastle area?
Check with these guys. If they don't know exactly, they can tell you a lot. Also check with Club Northwest (www.cnw.org).
I just moved up here and all I have are a couple of routes in Redmond and some runs along Burke-Gillman Trail around Lake Union.
Not familiar w/Newcastle, but that is fairly near Tiger Mt., which has many miles of great running on trails and dirt roads.
Tons of trails around here! I too live in Redmond and there are numerous trails around here. Burke Gilman (Marymoor Park to UW), Power Line (Burke G through Education Hill and Ferral McWhirter Park), Watershed (about a 6 miles loop with lots of variation), Tuscany Loop (3.5 miles of rolling terrain), Pipeline (Burke G through Lake of the Woods area - 8+ miles) and too many "deer trails" to count! Get off of the roads and save the knees!! Tiger is exceptional too! Especially, if you want to climb for an hour of so.
Give the Bellevue Footzone a call. Dave Stephens should be able to give some local routes.
Try the Cedar River Path (get on it either at renton stadium or renton community center), it has 1/4 mile markers and you can run on soft surfaces on the side of the path.
if you have time, head to lake youngs in southeast renton off of Petrovisky Rd. (best to look this up on a map). It's about 9.5 around, all dirt road and trail, lots of hills.
if you wanna go for a run, drop me an email
i'm tired of training alone.
The lake washington bike trails are interrupted between Renton and Newcastle, but you can take short road trip to connect them. That's the nicest.
SOme decent hilly routes up on Newport Hills area.
You can run out Coal Creek parkway. Or go the other way (forget the name of west on Coal Cr. Pkwy) and run to Bellefields Park, a few miles of cedar chip and/or wood planking trails through one square mile wilderness park.
Hey Dan, great job at DIII Nats (4th). Are you planning any indoor?
Yeah, I'll probably run a 3k Jan 18 at UW, maybe a mile at UW sometime in Feb., and we'll try to put together a DMR to qualify for nats if we have enough guys running fast enough. Probably won't try to do anything individually indoors unless it fits with doing the DMR, the main focus is outdoors 1500/5000, anything we do indoors will be done with outdoors in mind.
As for other places to run, if you have the time, you have to go to Discovery Park in Magnolia, it is worth the drive. I ran there today with the wind absolutely howling, especially down on the beach, got sprayed by the crashing waves. It was great.
I'll see you there. I might run either the mile or 800 and my gf might do the 3K.
Gotta agree about Discovery. I've watched many a sunset running along the bluff. I'll have to remember the to go down to the beach when the next windstorm kicks up. I'm also partial to Bridle Trails in Kirkland, but the mud turns some folks off- which keeps the trails clear of people for lots of nice solitude in the winter.