If you're new to San Diego or just visiting, and you want to learn about the running scene in San Diego, you've come to the right place! This page will give you info on weekend runs, places to run, groups or clubs for social runs or a team to train with, and running shoe stores! San Diego has a calendar of runs with something for everyone nearly every week - from 5ks & 10ks to Marathons!  San Diego is home to the Olympic Training Center, where world class runners train for Olympic competition. Running in San Diego is like a vacation, offering a variety of running venues, from ocean beaches, to Mission Bay park grass, to Mission Trails dirt paths, to high altitude in the Cuyamacas, to tracks with coached groups & organized clubs or social groups for the casual runner. With San Diego's legendary near perfect weather year round, never too hot, never too cold, you can run any time of year!. San Diego's geography also makes it an ideal place to run or train with a variety of terrains to run on. From within 1 hour you can have beach sunset runs, or train at mountain altitude. San Diego County stretches 65 miles from north to south, and 86 miles from east to west, covering 4,261 square miles. Elevation ranges from sea level to 6,500 feet. The county is approximately the size of the state of Connecticut. It borders (to the north) Orange and Riverside Counties, (to the east) the agricultural communities of Imperial County, (on the west) the Pacific Ocean, and (to the south) the State of Baja California, Mexico. Geographically, the County is on the same approximate latitude as Dallas, Texas and Charleston, South Carolina.
Running in San Diego, paradise for runners!