Where to run in Tampa?

I'm in taper and heading to Tampa, hopefully, for Wednesday evening through Friday morning. I'll be staying down by the convention center, with a jam-packed schedule, but may get an hour here or there to sneak in a run. Any good places to run that are convenient to that area?

If the Convention center is where I think it is, then it is at the start/finish area of the Gasparilla 15K race, so you can run along the causeway/water to the island and back. Pleasant and flat. Just Google Gasparilla 15K, and there should be a map.

Michele "1L" Keane wrote:If the Convention center is where I think it is, then it is at the start/finish area of the Gasparilla 15K race, so you can run along the causeway/water to the island and back. Pleasant and flat. Just Google Gasparilla 15K, and there should be a map.

Thanks Michele!

I ran Gasparilla (the half) a few years ago, so I vaguely recall running on Davis Island (in the dark, because it started real early), and running an out and back down Bayshore, which is along the water. I think I'll stick with that, as you suggest.

I spent quite a bit of time at the Embassy Suites right there. It's a pretty good area to run, actually. Definitely cross the bridge (runs under the convention center) and head down Bayshore.