Best Places To Run

[joggerjayne]

This month's Runner's World has published its list of Britain's Top 20 towns for running.

Brighton came ... (fanfare) ...

[joggerjayne]

... nowhere.

:0(

[joggerjayne]

failcake

[albaqwerty]

aww JJ,
Just keep Brighton a well-guarded secret, as soon as a lovely place becomes popular it loses its loveliness.

[sandyRoe]

Don't see why. There's the bracing sea breezes and it must be fairly level if you confine your running to near the seafront.

[joggerjayne]

Actually, sandy, if you run on the prom towards Roedean, it's quite a climb.

[argorstran]

I think Sandy may have hit the nail on the head "in reverse" - so to speak .
Middle-distance and long-distance runners need to do a certain amount of interval running up steep hills as part of their overall training programmes .
You haven't mentioned the top towns Jayne but I wonder if the industrial West Midlands (where I live ) figured ? It's not a particularly "nice" area but there is a surprising amount of high ground and steep hills in the metropolis itself - Turner's Hill , Barr Beacon , Warley Woods , plus lengthy canal paths to keep out of the traffic .
Having said that , wasn't Steve Ovett Brighton - based when he was winning all his medals ?

[craft1948]

Must be somewhere in Yorkshire..............look at the Brownlee brothers.

[cubic999]

richmond park very beautiful, deer, few cars in the AM

[craft1948]

Fenton!!!