anyone or anyplace to run in bay area california?

[blueb8llz]

j3110, thats funny that you brought up the berkeley marina cus i was just telling my frens that i remember my one friend telling me that he used to run his truck near berkeley marina ...like it was under the overpass or something...i forget. i dont keep in touch with him anymore so i have no way of asking. but he says there were lots of people that run their trucks there on the weeknd. i was just gonna go by that area one day and see if i can find it. im actually only like 15 mins from berkeley. so if im coming from oakland 580 i exit university? is there two university exits? like a east and west? because i know that exit but it usually veers to the right over the over pass. if its to the left, i can just make a u turn. so after i make that u turn do i just go straight and ill hit the park?

[J3110]

Exactly. Just make a u-turn and head out towards the water. Since you can't go straight, the road will go around the buildings that you'd run into if you went straight ahead.
I don't remember seeing any people running their RC near the freeway overpass, but now that I think of it, there is that long and narrow "lake" on the Oakland side of university and the Berkeley side of the freeway right there that has a waterski jump in it and I think guys run their RC boats there...now THAT could be the spot to go. I used to play frisbee golf in that park and seem to remember some cool spots that would be good for bashing. Lots of trees too, so you have some shade to beat the heat.
Kinda tricky finding it in a car unless you know where you're tryina go and then it's just a matter of finding the road that goes accross the tracks to get to the lot for the park there. It'd be like "get off on university heading towards berkeley, take a right on san pablo and then head down a few blocks till you can go right and get accross the train tracks".
So that's really 2 spots in berkeley. One on either side of 580 at the university exit.

See if I can get some maps goin on in a sec.

edit:

Berkeley Marina
Berkeley Aquatic Park
"Point Molate"

Hrm, had to fix the links because they seemed to be anchored in the center of berkeley(my initial map search) and kept defaulting back to the MLK memorial dealio. Fixed now.