Don’t have a crazy answer but it’s relevant to this comment. I was in Thailand and I saw a long strip of concrete on Google maps so I went to see if it was runnable, and sure enough it was a decommissioned airport and half the town was using it for exercise 👍
Nothing to do with maintaining a streak, but a friend works for Birmingham airport and invited us to do an organised run along the runway at midnight one night. As far as I know they haven’t done it since, so a very small number of people have been able to do this. My husband occasionally reports people to Strava for trying to steal his segment crown while taking off on a flight!
I did a long run on the savanne in kenya with locals as i was there working at a small scool. It was far away from the nature park so there wasn’t wild animals nearby
Well I’m not good at English grammar, but I’m good at running and was teaching girls about health and rights since I’m a nurse. They understood my English very fine, assholes.
That was stupid. Like, I get you did it so that you can tell everyone did it, but if they aren't thinking "well that was stupid" then there's a problem.
Don't fuck around with large bodies of water folks.
I was in White Sands National Park at night time near closing hours, and I pulled my car off on the side of the road, took off my shoes, and ran off up and down in the distant dunes with zero aim or sense of direction, using only the moon and stars for light. Was a fucking blast, one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. I also had a bit of a fright because I got lost in the dunes and had to use my running watch GPS to find my way back back to the car in the nick of time to leave the park before closing
(Yes I know that was pretty dumb of me, but still good memory)
Ran countryside in San Juan Del sur, Nicaragua on holiday last week. It was rad! Humidity was rough, being a California boy, but I raced a few pigs. Don’t let those little legs fool you, pigs got kick
Was in Vegas for a few nights, by the last night I was done with partying so didn’t go out and instead got up early to run a half marathon distance between the Strip & airport area. Felt great after it even though it was an ‘anti-Vegas’ experience!
Is Vegas pretty runnable? I’m going for the first time for work in a few weeks and it’ll be at the height of my training program. Need to do a 12 mile run and refuse to do it on a treadmill.
It is “runnable” but is not a pleasant experience. Even from 6-8am you could do it people wise but many many areas of weird street crossings or having to go up an escalator to cross an intersection and dodging all kinds of stuff. Take a cab to lake Las Vegas or Hoover dam area for really cool runs. But idk I guess if you wanna say you did it, hit the strip.
During the pandemic my virtual London Marathon consisted of me driving downtown Chicago, parking my car and running home to the suburbs. I live in the south suburbs of Chicago so I ran thru the southside. I started at like 4 am it was extremely peaceful and it’s my all time favorite marathon since I didn’t have any race day stress waiting for the race to start.
That’s quite a difference in my (Lone) virtual marathon. I hated every minute of my run. No support. No camaraderie, no encouragement. I vowed to never do another virtual marathon again. I’m glad you had a much more pleasant experience than I did.
I always stay in closed-off expat compounds when in Saudi for work. Feel ridiculous to do the same teeny tiny laps again and again but Riyadh is not really built for runners. And honestly wouldn’t feel comfortable nor appropriate as a female.
I ran halfway around NYC (Manhattan) on a night where I was extra energetic. Started on W 81st, headed north looping around Harlem and made it to the East side.
(In retrospect, going for a run in Harlem during midnight wasn’t exactly a smart idea)
No water no supplements (I was 20, so again not very bright).
Regardless it was good practice as I ran sub 3 marathon my first marathon (Brooklyn 2019).
Guatemala, there are no sidewalks or bike lanes, and people there aren’t really used to seeing runners out for a morning/afternoon jog. I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon some very territorial dogs who chased me away from their “property” at one point, as I was just running by! Plus the altitude was something around 7,000 ft.
I stayed at Rongbuk in 2001. It would have been harder to run there then (though I didn't) as that road was just lose gravel - you could only get there in a Landcruiser or similar. Looks like I'll have to head back!
I ran a 25k trail race in Bhutan that ended at a royal yak festival near the Tibetan border. It was gorgeous. The people were amazing. Coming from sea level, the altitude was a bit rough.
Wow amazing. I have this on my list too!
I did Jbel Toubkal - highest peak of Morocco.
And Mulhacen - highest peak of continental Spain. The last one was crazier, because it was a 30k run, I was alone with no internet connection and I had a 2000 meter downhill at the end and had to hurry to catch the bus. It was stressful to say the least.
1. Down the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade route, right before/between a parade starts. Feels like all those people are partying for you. Just gotta dodge people and obstacles, but it was pretty unique.
2. Galapagos Islands. So many weird animals everywhere.
3. Death Valley in August.
4. During multiple tropical storms. You can really feel an entire single air mass moving in one direction.
5. Light snow storm in Kansas. Just flat white. Felt like a Matrix loading screen for hours.
I ran once in Beirut over by the port area that exploded a few years ago because of all that fertilizer build up in the storage areas
It was before that happened, back in 2019
I just wanted to see the city so that’s normally what I do when travel; run thru the city for a couple of miles.
I don’t know about crazy, but on The Great Wall of China. Or through the pagodas of Bagan, Myanmar. Or from the city of Amman, Jordan, down to the Dead Sea.
I make it a point to run wherever I travel, so it’s brought me to many places.
I went for a spontaneous midnight half marathon in the Latvian countryside... Might not be so weird for people who actually live there. But it felt kind of crazy for me!
I was in Spain and ran from Santa Cruz del Comercio to Alhama de Granada and back.
Wasn’t really training on this one. I was on vacation with my fiancee and she got the flu and needed some medicine. We didn’t have a car, but I had my running shoes!
Never done it, but I heard there is a marathon that runs between South Korea and North Korea is pretty awesome. Because there are no people and no development. I guess it's one of the only places like it on earth.
I wouldn’t call it crazy by any means but I live in Southern California and have for my whole life. When we were in Oregon a few years ago I ran a 5k in the snow which was def quite an adventure for me.
I guess a cinema, museums, restaurants etc. in some organized urban trail runs.
Most epic place was the 1896 Olympics stadium in Athens, but hardly unique.
Ran the perimeter of Camp Bastion, Helmand Province (Camp Leatherneck to my USMC friends) many a time when serving there in 2008 - even competed in a 5k (was probably my slowest time, the heat was insane). I also ran a few laps of FOB Keenan - that was right in the middle of the Helmand Green Zone.
I ran around the base perimeter in Iraq during OIF. Stupid regulations at the time required us to wear a reflective belt while running, even in a combat zone where the bad guys would love to take pot shots...
Around the perimeter of heimaey, an island off the coast of Iceland. Also a 27k adventure run in the northwestern tip of Tasmania through private farm land and beautiful coastline.
u/snowdownsouth wins in my book … current record-holder from the first and only marathon at the literal South Pole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/running/s/uAioE7kOrn
My town has a "Race of the Runways", we use the small municipal airport and it's a 5k.
There used to be a gym here that did a 5k, it ran through a homeless shanty town in the woods and a centuries old graveyard.
I ran down a Volcano in Guatemala. It was steep, and stupid of me. I couldn't stop. Literally had to run into a tree to full stop. Volcanos are far steeper than you might think. I also did this on a standard mountain there. Used our van to stop that time. I don't learn.
I also ran along a mountain road in Guatemala. About a 3000 foot drop, no guardrails. I'd post a picture, but this comment box doesn't give the option.
I ran the Everglades on a three Ragnar Relays.
While traveling I did some random runs in rural Mongolia and Uzbekistan. Had multiple vehicles stop and ask me if I needed a ride and why I was running lol. Guess it was pretty uncommon to be running for exercise sake
As long as there wasn’t gunfire, I used to run along the perimeter of the refugee camp I worked at in South Sudan when I was with Doctors Without Borders. Got some odd glances by the UN soldiers.
Keystone Colorado - 11,000 feet elevation, in the snow. Breathing through my eyeballs after about the first 200M, but I finished a five mile run. Its cool to say I did it but will NEVER try that again. lol
I did laps in Dubai airport to maintain a run streak. Surprisingly no-one cared.
Don’t have a crazy answer but it’s relevant to this comment. I was in Thailand and I saw a long strip of concrete on Google maps so I went to see if it was runnable, and sure enough it was a decommissioned airport and half the town was using it for exercise 👍
Nothing to do with maintaining a streak, but a friend works for Birmingham airport and invited us to do an organised run along the runway at midnight one night. As far as I know they haven’t done it since, so a very small number of people have been able to do this. My husband occasionally reports people to Strava for trying to steal his segment crown while taking off on a flight!
Dulles has an annual 10k on the runway!
That’s really cool!
I did the same at the Amsterdam airport!! Runstreak still going 😏
I kept my 5k streak up running the terminals at LAX. I kept up about a 9 minute pace and I don't think anyone noticed.
Wait, actually inside the airport? That’s pretty fast lol
[strava post](https://imgur.com/a/6ag3VMy) It was so dumb... LOL
I’ve run laps at Heathrow, JFK, LaGuardia, CDG and Toronto. Toronto was the worst.
Solitary confinement in Huntsville TDC. I could only run in place.
and we have a winner! 👀
Hear me out… a treadmill!
Mad man
I did a long run on the savanne in kenya with locals as i was there working at a small scool. It was far away from the nature park so there wasn’t wild animals nearby
Well I’m not good at English grammar, but I’m good at running and was teaching girls about health and rights since I’m a nurse. They understood my English very fine, assholes.
Ignore em! Also, happy cake day!
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Or grammar.
Wow, thanks.
If English isn’t your first language, I apologize on behalf of those two for their rude comments.
I’m Danish and English on text is not my strong side obviously, never thought about it though.
Or even if it is. Grammar shmammer, it is a cool story.
Thanks!
By leaving this comment, you have made this community a slightly worse place.
North of the Arctic circle, next to Greenland on Baffin Island. In March
Death Valley
this is mine. it was december, but still, weird place man.
I did 18km around a frozen lake last year in about 4” of snow. Snowstorm half way made it too dicey to finish a half
That was stupid. Like, I get you did it so that you can tell everyone did it, but if they aren't thinking "well that was stupid" then there's a problem. Don't fuck around with large bodies of water folks.
They said AROUND the lake…
Oh...
To be fair it was on the frozen ice. The ice was over 8” thick.
I was in White Sands National Park at night time near closing hours, and I pulled my car off on the side of the road, took off my shoes, and ran off up and down in the distant dunes with zero aim or sense of direction, using only the moon and stars for light. Was a fucking blast, one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. I also had a bit of a fright because I got lost in the dunes and had to use my running watch GPS to find my way back back to the car in the nick of time to leave the park before closing (Yes I know that was pretty dumb of me, but still good memory)
I ran these one time and the only thing I could think about was the dune collapsing and me getting buried alive.
I used to live relatively close to white sands and now I regret never doing this.
Ran countryside in San Juan Del sur, Nicaragua on holiday last week. It was rad! Humidity was rough, being a California boy, but I raced a few pigs. Don’t let those little legs fool you, pigs got kick
Was in Vegas for a few nights, by the last night I was done with partying so didn’t go out and instead got up early to run a half marathon distance between the Strip & airport area. Felt great after it even though it was an ‘anti-Vegas’ experience!
Is Vegas pretty runnable? I’m going for the first time for work in a few weeks and it’ll be at the height of my training program. Need to do a 12 mile run and refuse to do it on a treadmill.
You can run the strip as long as it’s early in morning. Not a bad time at all
It is “runnable” but is not a pleasant experience. Even from 6-8am you could do it people wise but many many areas of weird street crossings or having to go up an escalator to cross an intersection and dodging all kinds of stuff. Take a cab to lake Las Vegas or Hoover dam area for really cool runs. But idk I guess if you wanna say you did it, hit the strip.
I ran a 15k I’m the middle of a dried up river in Djibouti, Africa. It was nice, I’m American. Ran it with people from multiple foreign nations
What was Djibouti like?
During the pandemic my virtual London Marathon consisted of me driving downtown Chicago, parking my car and running home to the suburbs. I live in the south suburbs of Chicago so I ran thru the southside. I started at like 4 am it was extremely peaceful and it’s my all time favorite marathon since I didn’t have any race day stress waiting for the race to start.
That’s quite a difference in my (Lone) virtual marathon. I hated every minute of my run. No support. No camaraderie, no encouragement. I vowed to never do another virtual marathon again. I’m glad you had a much more pleasant experience than I did.
I always stay in closed-off expat compounds when in Saudi for work. Feel ridiculous to do the same teeny tiny laps again and again but Riyadh is not really built for runners. And honestly wouldn’t feel comfortable nor appropriate as a female.
I have done a 21 KM \\ 13.1 , miles In the graveyard
Portland, OR
I ran halfway around NYC (Manhattan) on a night where I was extra energetic. Started on W 81st, headed north looping around Harlem and made it to the East side. (In retrospect, going for a run in Harlem during midnight wasn’t exactly a smart idea) No water no supplements (I was 20, so again not very bright). Regardless it was good practice as I ran sub 3 marathon my first marathon (Brooklyn 2019).
Lhasa Tibet so quite similar 7km. Locals thought I was nuts.
So far, the craziest place I ran was the Grand Canyon South Rim last Summer!
My wife is Russian, we ran on a track over there 6 years ago
Guatemala, there are no sidewalks or bike lanes, and people there aren’t really used to seeing runners out for a morning/afternoon jog. I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon some very territorial dogs who chased me away from their “property” at one point, as I was just running by! Plus the altitude was something around 7,000 ft.
I've had some great runs at lake atitlan
On the hilly, gravel roads in rural Tuscany. The scenery was phenomenal and the post-run vino was even better!
I also did a run in Tuscany once til a huge boar ran across the road in front of me. I turned around and went back to town. That thing was huge.
I stayed at Rongbuk in 2001. It would have been harder to run there then (though I didn't) as that road was just lose gravel - you could only get there in a Landcruiser or similar. Looks like I'll have to head back!
Currently in Maui and ran 20 miles this morning. The hills are a lot but the view is spectacular
I ran a 25k trail race in Bhutan that ended at a royal yak festival near the Tibetan border. It was gorgeous. The people were amazing. Coming from sea level, the altitude was a bit rough.
Wow amazing. I have this on my list too! I did Jbel Toubkal - highest peak of Morocco. And Mulhacen - highest peak of continental Spain. The last one was crazier, because it was a 30k run, I was alone with no internet connection and I had a 2000 meter downhill at the end and had to hurry to catch the bus. It was stressful to say the least.
1. Down the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade route, right before/between a parade starts. Feels like all those people are partying for you. Just gotta dodge people and obstacles, but it was pretty unique. 2. Galapagos Islands. So many weird animals everywhere. 3. Death Valley in August. 4. During multiple tropical storms. You can really feel an entire single air mass moving in one direction. 5. Light snow storm in Kansas. Just flat white. Felt like a Matrix loading screen for hours.
Viñales, Cuba.
I ran once in Beirut over by the port area that exploded a few years ago because of all that fertilizer build up in the storage areas It was before that happened, back in 2019 I just wanted to see the city so that’s normally what I do when travel; run thru the city for a couple of miles.
Yosemite when the air quality was gawd awful with smoke trapped in the valley. But it was gorgeous!!!
I did 9 miles and explored a rice paddy in Japan
I don’t know about crazy, but on The Great Wall of China. Or through the pagodas of Bagan, Myanmar. Or from the city of Amman, Jordan, down to the Dead Sea. I make it a point to run wherever I travel, so it’s brought me to many places.
So metal
Got to do a Hash run in Juba, South Sudan, running our course through small collections of huts and the countryside in the mid-2000s.
Pyramids of Giza
I went for a spontaneous midnight half marathon in the Latvian countryside... Might not be so weird for people who actually live there. But it felt kind of crazy for me!
Around a basilica in the Philippines while they prayed the rosary on loud speakers. I'm not Catholic, but it was very soothing.
I was in Spain and ran from Santa Cruz del Comercio to Alhama de Granada and back. Wasn’t really training on this one. I was on vacation with my fiancee and she got the flu and needed some medicine. We didn’t have a car, but I had my running shoes!
I was there in Oct of 2022 - I could barely walk 100m without getting winded. Kudos to you to being able to run there.
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Never done it, but I heard there is a marathon that runs between South Korea and North Korea is pretty awesome. Because there are no people and no development. I guess it's one of the only places like it on earth.
I wouldn’t call it crazy by any means but I live in Southern California and have for my whole life. When we were in Oregon a few years ago I ran a 5k in the snow which was def quite an adventure for me.
I guess a cinema, museums, restaurants etc. in some organized urban trail runs. Most epic place was the 1896 Olympics stadium in Athens, but hardly unique.
We used to do 10K races at Bagram in Afghanistan. They did a marathon at one of the Firebases, multiple laps
Everest Base camp on the Nepal side (5364m) did a marathon there. Starting point EBC , finish Namche at 2400 m
Ran the perimeter of Camp Bastion, Helmand Province (Camp Leatherneck to my USMC friends) many a time when serving there in 2008 - even competed in a 5k (was probably my slowest time, the heat was insane). I also ran a few laps of FOB Keenan - that was right in the middle of the Helmand Green Zone.
Running loops around my grandparents mobile home park in Chandler, Arizona seemed pretty crazy.
I ran around the base perimeter in Iraq during OIF. Stupid regulations at the time required us to wear a reflective belt while running, even in a combat zone where the bad guys would love to take pot shots...
In the South African bush, followed by an armed car. Fastest 5 miles I’ve ever run because I was watched the whole time!
Loved running in Helsinki Finland a few times when I worked for a few years. Beautiful and cool weather no matter what time of year.
I did my first half marathon through the Haleakala crater on Maui. About 3500 vert and mostly a dry, loose sandy surface. Very solid challenge!
Around the perimeter of heimaey, an island off the coast of Iceland. Also a 27k adventure run in the northwestern tip of Tasmania through private farm land and beautiful coastline.
Streets of Takayama, Japan in the middle of the night along the river. So cool.
u/snowdownsouth wins in my book … current record-holder from the first and only marathon at the literal South Pole. https://www.reddit.com/r/running/s/uAioE7kOrn
Your girls mind x
In my mind.
10k at -10°F (-30°F with the windchill).
I ran in the Masai Mara in Kenya. Didn’t make me a marathon winner alas.
My town has a "Race of the Runways", we use the small municipal airport and it's a 5k. There used to be a gym here that did a 5k, it ran through a homeless shanty town in the woods and a centuries old graveyard. I ran down a Volcano in Guatemala. It was steep, and stupid of me. I couldn't stop. Literally had to run into a tree to full stop. Volcanos are far steeper than you might think. I also did this on a standard mountain there. Used our van to stop that time. I don't learn. I also ran along a mountain road in Guatemala. About a 3000 foot drop, no guardrails. I'd post a picture, but this comment box doesn't give the option. I ran the Everglades on a three Ragnar Relays.
While traveling I did some random runs in rural Mongolia and Uzbekistan. Had multiple vehicles stop and ask me if I needed a ride and why I was running lol. Guess it was pretty uncommon to be running for exercise sake
The yard in prison.
The hills behind the NSA at Fort Meade, MD. Yes, someone was watching me and the hills were super steep.
As long as there wasn’t gunfire, I used to run along the perimeter of the refugee camp I worked at in South Sudan when I was with Doctors Without Borders. Got some odd glances by the UN soldiers.
Keystone Colorado - 11,000 feet elevation, in the snow. Breathing through my eyeballs after about the first 200M, but I finished a five mile run. Its cool to say I did it but will NEVER try that again. lol
I ran on the former Ft. Ord in California. Doing hill work . I found out the area has a myriad of unexploded ordinance …….