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I'm staying in downtown Birmingham tonight, near the Station and a friend recommended that I could maybe run around the canals. I'm an early morning runner, so would be looking to go out about 6:30 tomorrow morning and just wanted to get some advice from anyone locally on whether it would be safe at that time. Thanks

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Sorry I've only just seen this. Did you run along the canals? We have plenty of them here in the West Midlands. Personally I don't run on them as I feel isolated doing that. My son loves them though.

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I didn't in the end - I don't know Birmingham at all and felt a bit worried about running a route where I had so little knowledge of the local area

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