Outdoor fitness equipment station.

Day 17: I did a 2:45 run this morning without ever going more than 1.5 miles from our hotel. I managed this by lacing together a modest number of urban Oaxacan mini-parks, long blocks with sidewalks, and a government-built and maintained sports park. This park is a marvel. It includes a modest-cost health club and indoor swimming pools, as well as a wide assortment of outdoor playing fields, ranging from soccer fields to basketball, handball and more. There's a children's playground at one end, and some funny outdoor fitness equipment for adults in another area.

The track is 8 lanes, rubberized. It is ringed by a 1000 meter "jogging trail" that winds around all the fields, and includes two concrete rises or hills (with more rubber surface) to add some variety. The whole thing is quite wonderful, if you ask me. The mountains outside Oaxaca are everywhere in the background.

The while ramp to the right is one of the "hills" on the 1000m jogging trail.

I keep wishing this curve on the track, with palm tree, also had a steeplechase water jump.