On the Run Around Manchester - Softcover

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This is a guide giving the layout, landmarks and history of running routes around a vibrant city with a love for sport but edged with an almost forgotten amount of beauty. All the routes have been tried and tested by the toes and tendons of the author but once runners have tasted some of the sights and successes from the guide there will be lots of going back! "On The Run Around Manchester" is a running guide to one of Britain's most sporting cities with a view to coaxing more natives and newcomers to love the lands nearby and indeed labour along them - like running up the seemingly endless Joel Lane at Werneth Low in the summer heat. There are almost 50 routes including coverage of the sweeping greenery of Lyme Park, which was the setting to Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth. Tread towpaths along many of the constructed waterways such as the Peak Forest C, taste running alongside the River Mersey at sunset or readers can visit the fantastically named Iron Tongue Hill near Swineshaw Reservoirs. Perhaps because of its industrial history or recent history for nightlife, Manchester is not often associated with glorious countryside. Yet nearby there are the Pennine Hills, the Peak District National Park and the Cheshire Plains to make this a great place for runners and make "OTRAM" a valuable guide. The book includes stunning photographs and gives directions and ideas about where to run but also includes some history, such as information about the Bronze Age finds on Crompton Moor or King Canute's passing through the Hartshead Pike area. Whether runners are very keen and experienced or novices who are tentative about where to head: these routes offer variety. The reader is given a range where ability, surroundings and views are concerned and there are routes in all parts of the city. Perhaps you like to pound through the parks or you often return home from very long runs drenched, drained and delighted - there is something for everyone.

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