You may think that being Funchal the council (or city) in Madeira with the higher population density, having more than 100 thousand inhabitants, that it does not have nice mountain trails, but think that you could not be more wrong! Have in mind that the Pico do Arieiro still belongs to this council, and it is here that one of the hardest half marathon in the World takes place the Madeira Uphill 2000 (with precisely 2000 gap gain).
The Funchal Eco Trail, is another big even that is organized in Funchal, and it also revealed very interesting trail, especially in the high ground of the City, such as some trail around the area of the Alegria - São Roque, that are real trail running race tracks..
In fact, in Funchal you can find all kinds of tracks that can take to run a full marathon on high mountain or a vertical km (that is already organized by the Clube Aventura da Madeira in this council).
All the area of the Parque Ecologico do Funchal offers several solutions for nice training, but you should have the sensibility to only use the marked trails in order to do not danificate the immense work that as being done in the last years trying to reforest a big area that a few years back had suffer with fires.