I will be there for a couple of days starting tonight. Any good places to run and/or swim?
Fremont Older County Park off of Stevens Creek - very hilly, but trails, not paved
San Antonio Park(name?) off of Foothill Expressway near 280, lots of running only trails, most off road and not paved
YMCA in Mountain View
Arastradero Preserve in Palo Alto, really big park off of arastradero road in Palo Alto.
There’s are several high schools with running tracks you could run at off hours, look in the paper phone book.
Bay Trail by the SF Bay marsh. Flat
For swimming, you can drop in on a morning workout for $5 at Mountain View Masters (www.mvm.org), or there’s a really nice 50m pool with lunchtime lap swimming in nearby Santa Clara (check http://www.santaclaraswimclub.org/ for details)
My favorite place to run is the San Antonio park SWoo mentioned above - it’s called Rancho San Antonio, and the hills are great. I’m sure you can find a map to get there online, and you can use this tool http://stevenscreek.com/goodies/rancho.shtml to measure the distance and elevation of a route!
Is the masters club swimming tomorrow morning?
for the local masters swimming go to
Yeah, if you check the Workouts> General Schedule part of the website, it has all the times.
anyone know if the mountain view masters will be meeting this evening or tomorrow? i am on business in mv and would like a good swim. alternatively, anyone recommend other good places to swim this week
If you’re in the area check out Stanford Masters. Probably one of the nicest swimming facilities in the country.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/masters/
Evening workouts run 6:30 until 8 pm. Most of the coaches will let you drop in for free if you’re visiting from out of town for just a couple of days.
-Darrell