Running, Walking & Circuit-training

Index

Bath Cats & Dogs Home
The Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath. Tel: (01225) 787321. Website: www.bathcatsanddogshome.org.uk
Walkies! Not just for shifting puppy fat! Borrow a pooch, lose the paunch. Turn up with address i.d. Tue-Fri 11am-3.30pm and Sat/Sun 11am-12.30pm.

Bath Public Golf Facilities
Entry Hill, Bath. Tel: (01225) 834248, approach tel: (01225) 331162. Website: www.bathpublicgolf.co.uk
Courses open daily except Christmas Day, 8.30am-sunset weekdays, 7.30am-sunset weekends and bank holidays. Club hire available, advisable to book at Entry Hill.

Bristol & West Athletics Club
Whitchurch Sports Centre, Whitchurch. Tel: (01761) 462179, web: www.bristolandwestac.org, email: mikeadams.blagdon@virgin.net
Track and field, road running and cross country on offer throughout the year. Club nights Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - phone to make arrangements.

Bristol Dogs & Cats Home
50 Albert Rd, St Philips, Bristol. Tel: (0117) 977 6043
Fight the flab with a four-legged friend. Just turn up with i.d. on Mon-Fri 10am-12noon and 1-4.30pm or Sat 9.30am-12noon.

Bristol International Kite Festival
Ashton Court Estate, Bristol. Tel (0117) 977 2002. Web: www.kite-festival.org
Scheduled for September 1-2 in 2007 - check for conformation.

British Heart Foundation
Bristol Harbour Fun Run Harbourside, Bristol. Tel 0800 652 5818. Web: www.bhf.org.uk/bristolfunrun
Due for June 27 in 2007 - check for confirmation.
British Military Fitness Bristol Tel: 0870 241 2517 web: www.britmilfit.com

Brunel 20s and 30s Walking Group
www.brunelwalking.org.uk
A couple of walks every weekend, from easy 6 milers to challenging hill walks, for people in their 20s and 30s.

Get-fit training sessions
first launched in London's major parks in 1999, staged on Bristol's Clifton Downs for around a year. Offering a fun-but-tough programme designed to get the heart pumping and run in teams according to competitors' fitness levels. One chap lost four stones in four months.

Easy Runner
6 Horfield Road, St Michael's Hill, Bristol. Tel: (0117) 929 7787
Ace local running shop catering for all your jogging needs. Planned expansion will provide injury rehab and other services within a running centre of excellence.

Filton Golf Club
Golf Course Lane, Filton. Tel: (0117) 969 6968, website; www.darylkelleygolf.co.uk
18-hole members club also open to visitors. Golf tuition available to all standards.

Great Western Runners
Meet at Bristol Lawn Tennis & Squash Club, Redland Green, Bristol. Tel: (0117) 943 3108, web: www.greatwesternrunners.org.uk
200-odd member club meeting at 7pm on Wednesdays throughout the year to jog 4-10 miles. All welcome.

Jogging With The Girls
Tel: (01225) 396429, email: getactive@bathnes.gov.uk web: www.bathnes.gov.uk/getactive
Admirably self-explanatory and rightly popular initiative encouraging women to run en route to a lifetime of feeling terrific and looking even better. Courses start throughout the year and are staged at Bath Sports and Leisure Centre's Recreation Ground. Girls aged 13-16 have to be accompanied by an adult. The absence of chaps makes for a non-competitive, supportive atmosphere conducive to reaching fitness goals. You go, girl!

Kite Store
39a Cotham Hill, Bristol. Tel: (0117) 974 5010, web: www.kitestore.co.uk / www.kiteboardschool.co.uk
All your sporting/recreational kiting needs are catered for here, with power kiting, buggies, mountain boarding and kite surfing tuition offered at their partner Airways Kiteboard School.

Race for Life
The Downs, Bristol. Tel 08705 134314. Web: www.raceforlife.org
Annual fun run (due to be staged May 19 & 20 in 2007 - check for confirmation) raising money for Cancer Research.

Rat Race
Urban Adventure Amphitheatre & citywide, Bristol. Web: www.ratraceadventure.com
Funky getting around Bristol by sporty types. Due for June 16-17 in 2007 - check for confirmation.

Reebok Bristol Half Marathon
Bristol city centre. Tel (01782) 396113. Web: www.bristol-city.gov.uk/halfmarathon
Scheduled for September 9 in 2007 - check for confirmation.

Reebok Bristol Mile Races
College Green, Bristol. Tel (0117) 922 3719. Web: www.bristol-city.gov.uk/halfmarathon
Scheduled for September 8 in 2007 - check for confirmation.

Victoria Falls Adventure Golf & Excel Tennis
Royal Pavilion, Royal Avenue, Royal Victoria Park, Bath. Tel: (01225) 425066.
None-less-strenuous 18-hole adventure (crazy) golf course. Around 45 minutes of fun; don't expect to break a sweat (unless there's money involved.) See also Racquet Sports.

Walking The Way to Health
Tel: (0117) 377 3458, web: www.whi.org.uk, email: healthwalks@bristol-city.gov.uk
Walking groups make this easy and inexpensive get fit method even more enjoyable. The Weekly Wednesday Walk sets off from central Bristol's Cascade Steps every Wednesday at 12.30pm. The walk lasts 30 minutes, is free, open to anyone (just turn up and walk) and routes change weekly. Other walking groups are based in St Pauls and Easton, Bedminster and Southville, Hillfields, Henbury, Knowle West, Hartcliffe and Withywood and Lawrence Weston. Walks range from under one mile to four miles in length.

Walk the Walk
Sunwalk Ashton Court Estate & citywide, Bristol. Web: www.walkthewalk.org
Sol-themed strolling (for those who evidently do more than talk the talk) due for July 8 in 2007 - check for confirmation.

Weekly Wednesday
Walk Meet at Cascade Steps, central Bristol, Wednesdays at 12.30pm. Tel: (0117) 377 3458
Popular weekly walk within the 'Walking The Way to Health' initiative. See listing above for full details.