Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Top 10 Best Running Cities in America

Runner's World magazine recently published a list of America's 50 best running cities. They considered such things as temperate climate; abundant routes, tracks, and trails; a vibrant local running and racing scene; and perhaps some good company.

They started with a list of 250 U.S. cities with populations of more than 160,000 that had the highest number of households per capita reporting participation in running within the last 12 months (according to the SimplyMap 2014 census study). Then, they gathered data from various sources to create five indexes of special importance to runners (run, parks, climate, food, safety), ranking the cities in each index from 1 to 150. They then weighted the indexes and tallied up the scores to create the final list. The top ten are:

  • San Francisco, California
  • Seattle, Washington
  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • San Diego, California
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • New York, New York
  • Omaha, Nebraska
  • Denver, Colorado

I've been fortunate to be able to run in 5 of the top ten cities.

From Him, Through Him, For Him (Romans 11:36),

Paul J. Staso
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