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I'm planning a running vacation next year to skip some of this god-awful and never-ending Canadian
winter. Looks like Georgia is about as far south as I can reasonably drive. Any particularly nice
locales for running to plan my vacation around?
Thanks Mike Lazenby (still a) prisoner of winter
Mike,
Georgia has a lot of great places to run, although if you visit in the summer, be ready for the
heat. Spring weather here is very changable, but for the most part refreshing.
Try this link to find a lot of variety in scenic places to enjoy a run. Personally a few I'd
recommend are the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park (16 miles of beautiful trails of varying
difficulties), the Silver Comet Trail and Vickery Creek. A run along the Chattahoochee River in the
Recreation Area is a more level run and also a great place to enjoy the scenery. The link below also
has link to places below the Atlanta area...Calloway Gardens is a nice place to visit as well.
http://www.serve.com/bike/georgia/trails/try.html
Enjoy your escape from winter...we're back in the mid 70's this week and have been enjoying warm
temps for a few weeks now.
Sugar
mike@SPAMOFFpartshandler.on.ca (Mike L) wrote in message
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> I'm planning a running vacation next year to skip some of this god-awful and never-ending Canadian
> winter. Looks like Georgia is about as far south as I can reasonably drive. Any particularly nice
> locales for running to plan my vacation around?
>
> Thanks Mike Lazenby (still a) prisoner of winter
This is a strange request. Most people run AWAY from Georgia.......not the other way around. Remind
me to never let you plan my vacation.
If you like to move around, stop in Ringgold, GA and run through the civil war battle field (or as
we Southerners call it, the War of Northern Aggression). It is one of the top 5 most visited parks
in the US (mainly because it sits just off I-75 so Yankees stop on their way to FL).
Then go down to Rome and run at Berry College. You could spend several weeks running on the campus
with its trails.
Then down to Kennesaw and points farther south. "Sugar" <sugarkat37@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Mike,
>
> Georgia has a lot of great places to run, although if you visit in the summer, be ready for the
> heat. Spring weather here is very changable, but for the most part refreshing.
>
> Try this link to find a lot of variety in scenic places to enjoy a run. Personally a few I'd
> recommend are the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park (16 miles of beautiful trails of varying
> difficulties), the Silver Comet Trail and Vickery Creek. A run along the Chattahoochee River in
> the Recreation Area is a more level run and also a great place to enjoy the scenery. The link
> below also has link to places below the Atlanta area...Calloway Gardens is a nice place to visit
> as well.
>
> http://www.serve.com/bike/georgia/trails/try.html
>
> Enjoy your escape from winter...we're back in the mid 70's this week and have been enjoying warm
> temps for a few weeks now.
>
> Sugar
>
> mike@SPAMOFFpartshandler.on.ca (Mike L) wrote in message
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> > I'm planning a running vacation next year to skip some of this god-awful
and
> > never-ending Canadian winter. Looks like Georgia is about as far south
as I
> > can reasonably drive. Any particularly nice locales for running to plan
my
> > vacation around?
> >
> > Thanks Mike Lazenby (still a) prisoner of winter
> The link below also has link to places below the Atlanta area...Calloway Gardens is a nice place
> to visit as well.
>
Do you know if they allow runners on this Discovery Bicycle trail (10 miles) in Callaway Gardens? I
am visiting Atlanta this month and so am curious. Thanks, Satish
>This is a strange request. Most people run AWAY from Georgia.......not the other way around.
Maybe, butt he likes that tune from deliverance, so he's probably NOT going there for the running...
Bill R.
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> I'm planning a running vacation next year to skip some of this god-awful and never-ending Canadian
> winter. Looks like Georgia is about as far south as I can reasonably drive. Any particularly nice
> locales for running to plan my vacation around?
It snows and goes 10 below (C) in Atlanta on occasion. So be prepared for winter too.
"rick++" <rick303@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I'm planning a running vacation next year to skip some of this god-awful
and
> > never-ending Canadian winter. Looks like Georgia is about as far south
as I
> > can reasonably drive. Any particularly nice locales for running to plan
my
> > vacation around?
>
> It snows and goes 10 below (C) in Atlanta on occasion. So be prepared for winter too.
That hardly is winter compared to far more northern latitudes (having lived in WI, IL and GA).
However, the winters in north Georgia were depressing: overcast, rainy, wet feeling, cold to the
bone. Yuck...
Georgia is a great running state. In addition to the other running suggestions, running alongside
the Chattahoochee River is popular. There are plenty of good races to run, so check them out on
active.com and/or www.atlantatrackclub.org when winter gets nearer. In the latter part of the year,
the Lightning 10K in Sandy Springs and the Buckhead Sizzler 10K are fun, fast races. In December,
there are also races in the Virgina Highlands area, if you don't mind a few hills.
mike@SPAMOFFpartshandler.on.ca (Mike L) wrote in message
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> I'm planning a running vacation next year to skip some of this god-awful and never-ending Canadian
> winter. Looks like Georgia is about as far south as I can reasonably drive. Any particularly nice
> locales for running to plan my vacation around?
>
> Thanks Mike Lazenby (still a) prisoner of winter
Thanks for the responses and the links. I hope these will help me a lot with my planning.
Mike Lazenby
>Georgia is a great running state.
Of course it is, as pointed out by another poster everyone there is running...away from Georgia.
Bill R.
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