Swansea & Gower
Running routes in Mumbles: the prom and three extensions
Here are three running routes in Mumbles, all including the main promenade, with information on parking, hills, toilets and cafes to help all runners.
Running guides for Wales
Guides to running in Wales - routes, navigation, kit for a Welsh winter, and training for ground that's rarely flat. Every route here is one I've run.
These are the reference pages: routes I run often enough to describe properly, and the practical stuff that goes with them - where to park, what the ground does in the wet, which paths close and when. They get updated when something changes on the ground rather than on a schedule, so the date at the top of each one is worth reading.
Almost everything here starts in Cardiff and the valleys behind it, because that is where I live and run. Other parts of Wales get added as I cover them properly - I would rather have a handful of pages written from the ground than a map of the country filled in from other people's route descriptions.
For what a specific day was actually like - the weather, the pacing, the mistakes - the journal is the other half of the site. Guides tell you how to run something; the journal tells you how it went.
Aberfields parkrun review: course, parking and the climb
A course review of Aberfields parkrun in Nantymoel, run on a wet August Saturday: the route, runners and parking
Swansea & Gower
Swansea Bay parkrun: course, parking and PB potential
A first-hand guide to Swansea Bay parkrun after five runs there: where to park, how to pace the seafront out and back, whether it's a PB course, and what to do in Swansea afterwards.
Cardiff
Cardiff parkrun review: fast course, busy start line
Cardiff parkrun is flat, fast and one of the ten biggest in the UK. Both courses, parking at Gabalfa Tesco, where to stand at the start and how to pace it.
Cardiff
Winter running routes around Cardiff
My favourite winter running routes for South Wales & Cardiff including personal experiences, plus the kit that holds up in a Welsh winter.
Cardiff
Cardiff parkruns, reviewed
All six parkruns in and around Cardiff, run and rated - course, PB potential, winter conditions and parking, from someone who has run every one of them.
Cardiff
Five Running Routes from Lisvane
Five real running routes from Lisvane in north Cardiff - a flat reservoir loop, a hilly trail over Caerphilly Mountain, and the Taff Trail run into the city centre.