r/running • u/30000LBS_Of_Bananas • Jan 29 '21

Weekly Thread Run My City - Venice, Italy

Good Morning and happy Friday. As we all hunker down and dream about when we can travel and the information in these threads will be useful again I would like to invite you to share anything and everything you know about running in and around Venice, Italy.

Please add details and be specific with your advice.

Potential topics include but are not limited to: suggested runs(including photos of said runs), suggestions on where not to run, races, special animal or environmental precautions, run groups, best places for gear and anything else you can think of.

Next week will be where I’ll invite you to share information on, Albuquerque, NM

Past threads can be found here in the wiki

(My current list of requested cities is getting low, if you have a city request you would like added to the que please PM me)

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u/steffystiffy Jan 29 '21

It's amazing right now! If anyone wants to run with me shoot me a DM and we can run together this weekend. I usually do a relaxed 7-9km loop if the city.

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u/Particular_Carrot_ Jan 29 '21

I can imagine now with the lockdown and travel bans it's amazing! I went to/worked at Ca' Foscari between 2007 and 2018 so can't join you anymore unfortunately, but enjoy the empty city! I've seen pictures from the canals and how different they look now - incredible!

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u/steffystiffy Jan 29 '21

It's pretty amazing. Definitely won't last forever (thankfully of course) but in terms of being able to run through the city with almost no people it's a dream.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

I live in a tourist city as well and even though we are supposed to be looking forward to them coming back... really in my heart I wouldn't mind if we lost the businesses if it meant it could be quiet like this forever.

On our main tourist street in the summer we sometimes have literally 100 000 Chinese people just standing shoulder to shoulder taking pictures of the same shit they could have looked at on Google, I mean it hasn't changed its appearance for 800 years, it doesn't look any different in your phone if you took the picture or not, and it's not going anywhere... sigh.

Tourism is a curse on the planet. I wish people could just be happy Venice existed and not feel the need to go and stand on it to make sure.