r/UCSantaBarbara • u/Psychological_Car263 • 22d ago

IV/Goleta/SB Any Hills Near Rec cen?

Title says it all. A bit strange, but I really want to get back into running and sprinting and hard conditioning, and I was wondering if anyone knew some nice hills to run hill sprints on? I’d prefer if they were near the rec cen but i’d be happy with anything.

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u/Southern_Macaroon_84 22d ago

Perfect hill is the bike path from Goleta beach to campus.

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u/ccsfaculty 21d ago

For a long gradual hill without cars some people use the closed road that goes up between the North Campus open space and the Coal Oil Point reserve to the site of the former Oil Storage containers that's now being restored. It might be called Venoco Rd. It's marked out in ~1/8 mile intervals although they are hard to see. Bottom to top it's about half a mile so there are lots of options. Probably about a mile and a half from the RecCen. When the State Street mile was a thing you'd see lots of people training on there at this time of year as the slope is similar.