Walking in Sarasota

SARASOTA has MANY MANY gyms from which to choose. There are yoga and pilates studios and the YMCA. We are very health minded here and there really is NO excuse not to find your perfect place to get into shape. You can walk the beach or walk the bridge but what I particularly love is that there are so many neighborhoods which afford nature walks right from your front door. I live in the LONGWOOD RUN community, which is no more than 5 minutes from numerous retail stores, big box AND local, several gyms and countless restaurants. But 2 minutes from my front door, I am surrounded by nature. I walk on a shell path, over a bridge and onto an island to an old oak grove where each and every branch is dripping with Spanish moss. It is magical every time of day. This is just one of so many communities in Sarasota that offers the opportunity to be close to the "city" but allows you to feel that you are in the country!