so I did my joint first favourite run yesterday... I was a picture of mad happy runner grinning like a crazy thing and so very happy.
This run takes me through BRISTOL docks and by the river. I left when it was dark and as I ran the sun v
Came up and bathed in pure gold... it was so good.
What is your favourite run and why?
Juju
My favourite run is around Pandora Pond, the inner estuary of Napier in New Zealand which we have made our second home since my daughter went to live there. It's only about 4K but has the most wonderful bird-life and an incredible sense of history, since before the 1932 earthquake it was part of a much larger commercial estuary. To know that you are running around a track which 85 years ago was underwater is very special.
Wow that sounds utterly fabulous!!!
My favourite run starts at Curbar Gap, goes up to White Edge and back along Froggatt and Curbar Edges. My favourite because it is the run that inspired me to run... seeing my brother set off to do it... because of the fabulous views over the Peak District, because of the varied terrain underfoot, boggy peaty and gritstone and Google can go offlead outside nesting season.
What would make it perfect is to see hen harriers and to finish it when the little retro catering van is in the car park as they do great coffee, cake and dog biscuits.
I think I'd be a little twitched about the hard surfaces all the way but your run is fabulous ju-ju-
Lovely pics there Ju. It must be an interesting place to run. So much to see!
I don't have any fantastic vista's to write about. The canal's not bad though ☺ I run on my local country park trail, and that's my favourite. It used to be a pit tip ☺
I love the variety of sights on this run, I get bored easily... canal's are lovely.....
The sky looks heavenly
My favourite is the one I did this week, Grantchester Meadows, and Byron's Pool. I live in the centre of Cambridge, so trails are in short supply! This one goes across Grantchester Meadows, the Pink Floyd song of the same name is about them, they being Cambridge lads! Then I follow a little sign to Byron's pool, a gorgeous trail along the river Cam, where Byron went skinny dipping with Virginia Woolf. The trail is 6 KM from Cambridge, so that makes a long run for me by the time I get home, next time I think I will drive to the pool and see where the trail leads.
Sounds delightful... really lovely...
I tend to run the same routes again and again. Living in a small village, it's all country road or canal path tracks, and I have four basic loop routes each with variations that means I can get whatever distance I want without having to do an out-and-back. Although parts of the area is less interesting for running than others, I don't have a single favourite.
Having said that, I love it when the canal path is passable. This time of the year though it's way to muddy (as in wellies or waders needed) when going East along the canal, and the moles have totally wrecked the path for the first 5 km when going West. So for the next 4+ months it'll all be B-roads and no soft path with pretty views.
Wow, that looks amazing!
My favourite route is about 12K, and it takes me on a funky hilly tour of Brighton and Hove. First Hove's main street past restaurants and shops, then uphill via a lovely little park called St Anne's Well Gardens to bustling Seven Dials. Then down a lovely hill past Brighton Station, and commuters, through the groovy North Laine area and its tempting wafts of coffee and pastries. Then to Hanover, aka "Muesli Mountain" up the gloriously steep Southover Street. Next a refreshing downhill run past gorgeous Queens Park, through lovely Kemp Town, to the sea and a great view of the Palace Pier. Then back home along the prom past the sea-front bars, the arches shops, and the i360, as they are opening up 
I think my favorite runs are the ones from my home down to the fjord and in to the city center along the fjord. It's easy to tailor the length of my run from 8 to 21 k - or more - and it feels a lot easier than many other runs - probably because I'm always close to the tram home. I've never had to give up and take it on one of these runs, but it's nice to know that the option is there.
I'm very, very lucky, I've got several routes I use in the Cambridgeshire countryside, they can be all trail, wooded areas, a mixture of road and trail or mostly road. Very few inclines. There are some I'm still yet to fully discover due to my distances gradually getting a bit longer, but they're all village routes, bridleways and footpaths, so traffic generally isn't a problem.
I think the wooded areas are actually my favourite, running through woods is something very special, not sure why. Sometimes I take the time to just stop and take in the view, across fields, sun rising, seasons changing, and the wild life. So special.
I also love the runs I get to do in Bulgaria, mostly crosscountry, fields and fields of sunflowers and corn that go on for miles, buzzards flying overhead on the early morning thermals.
In fact, I think I like them all!
Mx
I am catching up on this thread - too many things to do before Christmas!
One of my favourite runs is not near me but in Aldeburgh where I often go and stay. The route takes you along a disused railway line lined with trees, and bushes, and then through woodland, across heathland, along the estuary and back along the seafront and through Aldeburgh itself. It's about 12-15km and you feel like you have seen so many different environments. And it's pretty much flat!
I got a "Keep going sweet cheeks" today, what's your favourite shout out from supportive walkers? 
Tim’s Run North Yorkshire
