One of the main objectives of GoodRunGuide is to help runners
to get the most from their running by providing recommendations
for some of the best running routes around the UK.

We want you to be able to run and enjoy our recommended routes
with confidence, so only include good quality routes; we research and
run every route we recommend before it is published, checking
it against our Quality Standards and producing accurate maps and guides
with all the information you should need.

QUALITY STANDARDS FOR RECOMMENDED ROUTES suitable terrain for running attractive or interesting scenery reasonably easy to follow well described accurately mapped with good directions not hazardous different from other local routes circular route if possible

Quality First We believe that the quality of our recommended routes is paramount and more important than filling our database with as many routes as possible. There are two main reasons for this.  Firstly, we think that people would prefer not to have to sift through everyone’s "everyday" routes to find routes that are worth making that extra effort to get to.  Secondly, if you only want to run the most convenient routes you probably don't need our help for this!   Any routes recommended by GoodRunGuide are shown with this green symbol.

Recommendations from Members and Running Clubs

We also publish Routes recommended by GoodRunGuide Members. While it's not practical or economic for us to come and run all of these ourselves, we do commit to review each one individually against our Quality Standards before it is published. Where we do run a route recommended by a GoodRunGuide Member and we confirm that it meets our Quality Standards, we will endorse it ourselves and produce a custom map, run guide and video fly-through.

Routes recommend by Members are shown with this blue symbol.

Lastly, affiliated UK Running Clubs can publish their training routes on GoodRunGuide. These are not inspected by GoodRunGuide but are recommended by the Clubs themselves.

Routes recommend by Running Clubs are shown with this blue symbol.

Our Funding Policy

There is no getting away from it - a good service costs money to run. 

We’ve taken the decision to charge a small annual subscription for our service rather than fund the service through advertising so GoodRunGuide is an advert-free zone!  We’ve taken this approach because we believe we can give you a better service if we don’t have intrusive advertising cluttering up the website and don’t have to bombard you with marketing offers from our sponsors.   This also means that we always have your interests uppermost in our minds and not those of our sponsors and advertisers.

We also think that a subscription is an open and upfront way of charging for the service and represents good value for money given the costs of buying conventional maps, guides and Log Books.

Our Geographic Policy

GoodRunGuide is based in the UK and is very much focused on the needs of UK runners only.  We think that if we tried to create a service to meet the needs of every runner on the planet we’d be doing so at the expense of creating a less relevant service for UK-based runners. 

So, on GoodRunGuide, you won’t have to search the world to find what you want, hear about events in other countries and receive marketing offers from foreign retailers - we aim to give you a service that is as relevant as possible.

Our Activity Policy

GoodRunGuide is a service for runners.  While it would be tempting to appeal to a wider audience by forging out into other sports and introducing options to record routes and training for a range of activities, we feel we would end up with a a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ service that would be much less relevant for the runners who we want to focus on. 

However, we do recognise that many runners also compete in triathlons and so we plan to develop greater support for this but first and foremost GoodRunGuide is a service for runners.

Our Independence

GoodRunGuide is an independent business managed and operated by a small group of dedicated runners.  We are not controlled by a big business so our motive is not to try to sell you energy drinks or trainers, the only thing we hope to try to sell you is a good service!

Our Member Support

We like to think that we offer excellent service and support to our Members. The nature of our service means that we can offer personal support and advice to Members who have queries or problems and we normally reply to emails within a few hours. Whether its a technical query or question about running we will do our very best to help. We're pleased to have lots of excellent feedback from our Members but are always working to improve our service further so welcome feedback of any type.