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Designing your own route

Researching and planning your own route allows you to take in the landmarks you want to see, trails you want to run or perhaps hills you want to climb.

While training for the Marathon des Sables, for example, two friends ran 25 miles of the Wye Valley Walk, from Hay-on-Wye to Hereford, with an overnight stop at a guesthouse, and then back via the same route the next day.

Another group of fell runners head up to Scotland each year with lightweight mountain marathon gear so they can run and walk their own routes over a long weekend. One of their most memorable journeys was a three-day, two-night trip, parking at Muir of Ord and getting the train across to Attadale on the west coast, then running back and wild camping along the way, far from roads and staying high on the hills. You can simply pick a place you’ve always wanted to visit and design a trip around it.

Approaching Hay-on-Wye at the end of a three-day run across Wales (Photo credit: Chris Councell)

Long-distance walking routes