Guided Runs
Run With Me.
Your pace. My route. The parts of a city that only reveal themselves when you’re moving through them.
The Anglo-Italian Runner
Guided Runs
Your pace. My route. The parts of a city that only reveal themselves when you’re moving through them.
How I see a city
Every post on this site started the same way. We arrived. We laced up. We went up the hill, or along the canal, or out through the edge of the old town to where the tourists don’t bother going. Nobody told us where to go. That’s the point.
Running opens a city differently to walking. You cover more ground. You find corners by accident. You earn the coffee at the end. The pace forces you to notice things — the mosaic street signs, the man opening his bakery at seven, the Roman arch that someone built a garage into. You stop when something’s worth stopping for, and you don’t when it isn’t.
That’s what a run with me looks like. No script. No laminated map. Just a route I know, a city I’m getting to know deeply, and two hours that will change how you see the place.
The headline route
Ravenna is not a big city. That’s why it works. You can cover the old town, the mosaics quarter, the canal, the market streets and the residential edges in a single run — and most of the people you’ll pass are going about their morning, not on a tour.
My Ravenna route takes in the Byzantine core — San Vitale, the Baptistery, Dante’s Tomb — but it doesn’t stop for photos outside every landmark. It moves. It finds the Space Invader made from mosaic tiles on Via Boccaccio. It goes past the gelato place on the cobbled side street that you’d walk past twice before noticing. It ends somewhere worth stopping.
Exact routes are still being logged — the recce runs are coming. I’ll know this city properly before I take anyone else through it. If you want to be among the first, get in touch now.
What to expect
Runs are between 5km and 10km depending on what you want. There’s no minimum fitness level — if you can run a comfortable 5k, you can do this. Pace is set by the slowest person in the group, and that is a feature, not a compromise.
We stop for photos. We stop when someone needs a moment with something. We stop for coffee when the run earns it. We don’t stop at every UNESCO plaque and read out facts at you.
Groups are small — a maximum of six. Small enough that it doesn’t feel like a group. Large enough to cover the cost and have a conversation at the end.
Price is €30 per person. If you’re two or three and want something more tailored, get in touch and we’ll work something out.
Not a runner?
My wife Sarah runs tours.kalica.co.uk — guided walks through Ravenna and the surrounding region. The same philosophy: small groups, no script, the city as it actually is rather than how it performs for visitors. If you’d rather walk than run, or you’re travelling with someone who wants both, there’s a tour for that.
Sarah’s walking tours →
And further afield
Ravenna is home, but the archive on this site covers a lot of ground. Ferrara. Florence. Siena. The Emilia-Romagna cities. If you’re visiting somewhere that’s appeared in a post here and want to see it the way it was described — at pace, early, before the day starts properly — get in touch. If the timing works and the route is one I know well enough to trust, I’ll say yes.
This will always be a small operation. I’m not building a company. I’m offering to run with people who’ve read the posts and want to try it themselves. If that sounds like you, the form below is all you need.
Get in touch
Your pace. My route. Stops for photos, a coffee somewhere you wouldn’t find yourself, and the parts of the city that only reveal themselves on foot. Available for visitors, travellers, and anyone curious enough to lace up.
Read the routes first
54 routes logged across Italy, Europe and beyond. Find a city. Read the run. Then decide.
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The same city, the same philosophy, a different pace. Guided walks through Ravenna and Emilia-Romagna.
tours.kalica.co.uk →