Places you've ran abroad

cfitz

What foreign towns/cities/areas have you gone for a run in? Which ones were the most memorable? Here's my list:

1. Waikiki, Hawaii
2. Vancouver, Canada
3. Montreal, Canada
4. Cairo, Egypt
5. Marrakech, Morocco
6. Tabant, Morocco
7. Demnate, Morocco
8. Agdz, Morocco
9. Agadir, Morocco
10. Venice, Italy
11. Torrevieja, Spain
12. St. Maxime, France
13. Paris, France
14. Perros Guirec, France
15. Brussels, Belgium
16. Soest, Netherlands
17. Cardiff, Wales
18. London, England
19. Birmingham, England
20. Southport, England
21. Bristol, England
22. Blackpool, England

That's most of mine anyway, might be forgetting one or two, there were a few places in France that I went as a teenager that I can't remember the name of. The runs in North Africa were easily the most memorable, warm weather, kids running with you, people cheering you on.

Tabant was at 1800m altitude with snow-capped mountains all around, the roads weren't paved and the houses were made of clay. Waikiki was hard work with the humidity plus that was where my foot injury finally put me out. Venice was a hard place to find a good run, mostly went out and back over a really long bridge to mainland Italy.

buck65

Ran in Hong Kong (Discovery bay and Bowen Road - unbelievable views)
Had a nice run (and a game of 5 a side) in Borneo
Colorado
Zurich
Interlaken
along with various French Spanish Portugese cities and resorts

Hard Worker

I've ran London, New York, Boston and Chicago marathons and the Disney Half. I've won a 5K in Clearwater, Florida and ran another 5K in Pasadena, California. I've ran a snow race in Font Romeu and 10K's in Riccione and Northern Spain and a Half Marathon near Lisbon.
I've been lucky enough to have finished the MdS. However, the most stunning place I've ever ran was the Gobi Desert in China.
The Connemara Full and Half weren't bad either.:)

cfitz

buck65 wrote: »

Ran in Hong Kong (Discovery bay and Bowen Road - unbelievable views)
Had a nice run (and a game of 5 a side) in Borneo
Colorado
Zurich
Interlaken
along with various French Spanish Portugese cities and resorts

Borneo sounds interesting, and Colorado is meant to be brilliant for training.

Hard Worker wrote: »

I've ran London, New York, Boston and Chicago marathons and the Disney Half. I've won a 5K in Clearwater, Florida and ran another 5K in Pasadena, California. I've ran a snow race in Font Romeu and 10K's in Riccione and Northern Spain and a Half Marathon near Lisbon.
I've been lucky enough to have finished the MdS. However, the most stunning place I've ever ran was the Gobi Desert in China.
The Connemara Full and Half weren't bad either.:)

Marathon de Sables, Gobi Desert, Font Romeu - hard to top that!

snack_ie

1. Rio de Janeiro - So many people out and about, and a unreal amount of eye candy to admire.:D

2. Running around in the desert in Central Australia near Cooper Pedy - Absolute middle of nowhere - As the sun is rising - Very Random

3. Noosa Australia in the National Park was pretty spectacular too.

Krusty_Clown

Most interesting place to jog:
Ritan Park - Beijing. Most of the other runners would do a few Kung Fu high kicks every time they crossed a particular bridge. A nice bar there too (the Stone Boat), when you're done running. It's a 500 year old park in the embassy district, where the Emperor used to make sacrifices to the sun.

Most interesting long run:
Kristiansund - Norway. Island hopping the hard way! Brother-in-law told me the area was totally flat. 20 miles later, I was totally wrecked! Garmin link

Supercell

Eh my exotic locations so far...

1) Wicklow
2) Dublin

Coming soon :-

1) Guangzhou - China
2) Hong Kong
3) other Chinese places

MCOS

Running down the bank of the river Charles, Boston on a crisp sunny October evening with my rowing crew mates the day before the race

Racing my friend down the Mt Fuji descent, Japan on a misty September morning after climbing through the night to watch the sun rise at the peak.

BeepBeep67

Montego Bay - Jamaica
Montpellier - France
Through a cane field in Mauritius
Casablanca - Morocco
Calan Bosc - Menorca
Calan Forcat - Menorca (tried my typical if you go left, left, left and left you'll end up back in sq. 1 - mmmm, making the decision to turn around after 60mins of a 45mins run in 30ish degrees not fun)
Playa Blanca - Lanzarote
Along the beach in Goa
Along the road in Kerala (scary)
Alogn the road in New Delhi (scary for the locals)
On a post Tsunami beach near Colombo in Sri Lanka
On a threadmill in the Maldives - honestly there was nowhere else
Came 1st in a low key 5k in Hydrabad (India)
....I'm sure there's a few more
This year I was in Co. Clare (Kilkee) and ran the cliffs each morning, fantastic, breathtaking....you can't beat Ireland really

Abhainn

Places I have completed training runs so far outside Ireland

Kuantan - Malaysia
Koh Samui - Thailand
Khao Lak - Thailand (10 days before the Tsunami devastation)
Phoenix (Tempe)- Arizona
Kandi - Sri Lanka
Around an unpopulated island in the Maldives:D
A run finishing the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens - Greece:D
Episkopi - Cyprus
Gosford Newcastle - England
Warrington - England
Caerleon - Wales
Santorini - Greece

Odysseus

I tend to be a creature of habit.

Adak in North Sweden 3 times for a 100k.

Smara in the Sahara twice for a marathon.

Both are excellent places for running. Adak as it is a small event in terms of only 60-70 runners. However, the support you recieve from people on the track is amazing.

Smara is wonderful, you are staying with a family in a refugee camp. Lovely people who really look after you.

shels4ever

Cape Cod - USA
Chicago (marathon) -USA
Pakkhat - Thailand
Heidelberg - Germany
Vienna - Austria
Bangalore - India

BeepBeep67

shels4ever wrote: »

Bangalore - India

What had you in Bangalore Shels?

VR46

cfitz wrote: »

The runs in North Africa were easily the most memorable, warm weather, kids running with you, people cheering you on.

haha yeah went for a run on a beach in agadir few years ago. ended up being a flat out race with bout 15 moroccon kids and all the locals cheering us on.
Outkicked them in the last 200m

Stupid_Private

Raced in the following
France - Montpellier, Bezier, Montagnac... a lot of places in the Langue Doc region (lived in Montpellier for near on 4 years). Also the Paris marathon and the "half marathon" of Marvejols-Mende in Lozere. It's really 15 miles but they call it a half for some reason.
Rotterdam marathon
Fair few races in London and Luton as well.

Training runs - LA, San Diego, Newport Rhode Island, The Palm in Dubai, Mauritius, Rome, Seville

dna_leri

In the past year I managed runs in:
Streets of Seoul Korea
Park in Gothenburg Sweden
Along canals in Netherlands
Beach in Florida

It sounds more exotic than it actually was i.e. squeezing a regular run in between work and travel.

hunnymonster

I've only been running since 2004, and did most of my travelling before then. Will have to think about this one though, I do like new red dots appearing on my garmin world map.

shels4ever

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

What had you in Bangalore Shels?

Was there for work .

gaf1983

1. 2008 Genk Half-Marathon, Belgium. Actually takes place in a forest on the edge of Genk in the bitterly cold month of January.

2. Doha, Qatar. The Corniche there is an ideal place for runners, probably because it's the only place for runners in the city. Ran the 4 miles from my apartment to the beach one morning, one of my least enjoyable running experiences ever: temperature in the high 30s, hardly any footpaths, loads of construction going on so lots of HGVs and dust, lunatic drivers and baffled-looking locals.

3. St Hilaire de Riez, Vendée France. Huge beach there, about 7 miles long, lots of sand dunes too, a tough run.

4. Cambridge, UK. Lots of cyclist/runner friendly pathways here, great city for a run.

5. Florence Marathon, Italy, 2008 - didn't finish this, but an amazing looking city to run around all the same. Shocking weather there though last November.

6. Brussels Half Marathon, Belgium, 2008. A grand run. Finished in the Grande Place.

7. Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes, November 2008, from Nice to Antibes. Amazing scenery, really well organised race, would like to go back, review is here.

Think that's about it for the moment.

rovers_runner

Son Bou - Menorca - Casual midweek runs
New York - USA - 4m in Central Park
London - England - Bupa great capital run