Subject: RE: Berkeley: Tri friendly? I live in Berkeley (although I'm not doing many tris, these days ). I'm not sure how much of a tri community there is in Berkeley, but the training options are great. Lots of pools (and as a grad student, you'd have access to all the campus pools ), great cycling (if you don't mind hills ), and you can run outside year-round. For OWS you can't do much in Berkeley proper, but there are places to swim in the bay.
I know there's a tri group at the Berkeley YMCA, although I think it's mostly for beginners. The univeristy has a tri tream that seems to compete regularly, but I have no clue who can join it or how competitive it is. My only experience with them was when they tried to organize an olympic distance tri a couple of years ago and had to cancel the day before. That sucked.
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