WONDROUS TRAILS TO HELP YOU GO THAT EXTRA MILE
10 NEW EASY-TO-FOLLOW RUNNING ROUTES WITH FULL MAPS!
Sounds like a plan
It’s amazing how, once you’ve found your feet with trail running, landscapes everywhere suddenly fill with potential. The possibilities are pretty much endless. But it can be hard to know where to begin.
Having spent the past decade or so exploring new routes, we thought we’d include a few answers here. Right here, in fact, kicking off with Trail Running’s online routes archive at trailrunningmag. co.uk/routes. This is our 34th issue as routefinders for the magazine, so we’ve collated 340 different routes so far. Some come from our own running expeditions around the country, some are taken from our books, while others are kindly contributed by readers and experts.
When we started out in the world of guidebook writing, with Wild Running in 2014, guides aimed at runners were few and far between. By the time the second edition came out in 2019 there was far more choice, as publishers of walking guidebooks branched out into running.
You’ll find a route from Ross Brannigan’s new book, Trail Running Scotland on page 101.
But if your bookshelves are groaning, you’ll find inspiration in Ordnance Survey maps. Get a custom paper map with your postcode in the centre and run all the trails from your door. Or sign up for OS Maps online to plot routes across the country and find those others have run.
We hope that’s a helpful start to planning your running adventures, along with this issue’s brand new selection.
GO YOUR OWN WAY
This exhilarating run through a great variety of landscapes follows an old granite tramway through woodland and river valleys, passing quays and locks and finishing along the estuary foreshore. Starting from Haytor visitor centre, high on Dartmoor, it weaves through beautiful Yarner Wood, through Brimley to the Ventiford Basin, through Stover Park and along quiet lanes. A stretch along the Stover canal brings you to Newton Abbot town quay then on to the Teign estuary path to Teignmouth.
Note that the estuary path is only accessible at low tide, otherwise take local lanes. Return either by bus via Newton Abbot to Bovey Tracey, or run back to Haytor, uphill all the way.
■ More Information: visitdartmoor. co.uk/get-active/the-best-dartmoorwalks/templer-way
Formed from some of England’s oldest rocks – an incredible 680 million years ago – the Malver
