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Summary: Got wheels?
Review: During the recent year and a half that I lived in the Bay Area, I enjoyed having this book. It suggests routes for San Francisco plus the North, East, and South Bays. It also has a lot of information about each course and about a handful of Bay Area races. For someone who has lived his or her whole life in the Bay Area, maybe the information seems redundant. However, for a newcomer like myself, the hints were very welcome.My biggest beef with the book is that several of the courses require one to first drive to a certain location. I am hardly the only person to have lived in San Francisco without owning a car--lots of people rely on buses and the subway--and it was frustrating to see so many great looking route descriptions followed by the words "No access by public transportation." It cut the number of routes I could follow by as much as a third.
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Summary: Got wheels?
Review: During the recent year and a half that I lived in the Bay Area, I enjoyed having this book. It suggests routes for San Francisco plus the North, East, and South Bays. It also has a lot of information about each course and about a handful of Bay Area races. For someone who has lived his or her whole life in the Bay Area, maybe the information seems redundant. However, for a newcomer like myself, the hints were very welcome. My biggest beef with the book is that several of the courses require one to first drive to a certain location. I am hardly the only person to have lived in San Francisco without owning a car--lots of people rely on buses and the subway--and it was frustrating to see so many great looking route descriptions followed by the words "No access by public transportation." It cut the number of routes I could follow by as much as a third.
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Summary: This book re-states the obvious...
Review: If you're looking for some insightful running suggestions in SF, avoid this book. [In my opinion anyone] could have written this book from 3,000 miles away by reading tourist brochures and looking at maps. The suggested routes are obvious, uninspired suggestions that anybody who is moderately interested in running in or around SF ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT. A huge portion of the book is taken up by content on races... I presume this was done to give it some bulk. This book did absolutely nothing for my SF running intelligence.
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Summary: This book re-states the obvious...
Review: If you're looking for some insightful running suggestions in SF, avoid this book. [In my opinion anyone] could have written this book from 3,000 miles away by reading tourist brochures and looking at maps. The suggested routes are obvious, uninspired suggestions that anybody who is moderately interested in running in or around SF ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT. A huge portion of the book is taken up by content on races... I presume this was done to give it some bulk. This book did absolutely nothing for my SF running intelligence.
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