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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 Canal, 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. 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.

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Caroline Oldfield is a writer of both factual and fictional material and is also a poet but it is her love of the undervalued, stunning landscapes around Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and indeed Manchester itself that prompted the creation of the running guide. Caroline has several years experience as a staff and freelance journalist, and has worked as a researcher on a travel guide. She has seen life at newspapers on a local, regional and national scale in many parts of the country but has returned to the boundary of her native Peak District and Greater Manchester area in recent years. She has done volunteer work at various press offices and has written for publications ranging from the Daily Express to The Big Issue In The North. She hopes to spend a large amount of time in the future living and writing in the Peak District but also loves to travel, especially to the Mediterranean and ancient lands.

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