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Virgin London Marathon Record Attempts

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Find out which madcap records could be toppled this year

Guinness World Records have announced more than 100 runners will be hoping to smash records at this Sunday’s Virgin London Marathon. The records range from slightly mad to completely off-the-scale. Here are a few of the wackiest attempts to watch out for if you’re spectating - or to aim not be ...

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MdS Race Diary: Stages 5 and 6

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An update from the desert as RW staffer Jamie completes his epic adventure

A quick update today as we're hoping to have the full story from our Marathon des Sables challenger himself when he returns to RW Towers later this week. Jamie completed the MdS in a total time of 39 hours and nine minutes. The marathon stage he whipped through in 5:25, leaving ...

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Royal Parks Foundation Ultra Announced

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Step up to an ultra with this new event from the team behind the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon

Yesterday The Royal Parks Foundation launched their new event: The Ultra. This 50K race will set off after their popular half-marathon on October 7, with 700 spaces up for grabs in its first year. Here at RW Towers we’ve noticed the trend of runners going longer and longer. And this event ...

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MdS Race Diary: Stages 3 and 4

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Days (and nights) in the desert prove brutal for our Marathon des Sables blogger.

Stage 3 (22 miles in 31C heat): 4:34:30Stage 4 (51 miles in 39C heat): 14:10:25 Jamie says: I finished the long stage last night, running 51 miles in just over 14 hours. It was brutal. The terrain was relentless - it started with a climb that made the Devon ultra ... ...

MdS Race Diary: Stages 1 and 2

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Our intrepid ultra reporter has hit the Moroccan sands running...

Here at RW Towers we haven't had any emails from Jamie just yet... But the online tracker on the Marathon des Sables website (darbaroud.com) shows him as having completed Stages 1 and 2 and sitting in 330th place. Considering there are 849 competitors left in the race this is ... ...

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Run to the Beat Half-Marathon: Registration Now Open!

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Get in there now for your chance to bag a place in this year's Run to the Beat Half-Marathon!

Run to the Beat has become one of London’s biggest races – and with good reason. The RW team tried and tested this South London dash last year – and we certainly weren’t disappointed. It takes you on a varied route from The 02 past Woolwich Common and through ... ...

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Royal Parks Foundation Half-Marathon: Ballot open now!

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Get in there now for your chance to bag a place in this year's Royal Parks Foundation Half-Marathon!

We've been a big fan of the Royal Parks Foundation Half-Marathon here at RW Towers ever since it launched in 2008. This atmospheric autumn race packed with iconic London sights and peaceful Hyde Park paths has gone from strength to strength and last year the organisers introduced a ballot entry ...

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30% off Zest magazine's New Year, New You event!

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Kickstart your healthy 2012 at Zest magazine's New Year, New Event - with 30% off tickets just for runnersworld.co.uk readers

Forever trying diets that don't work? Wish you had more energy? Want help dealing with stress? Need to solve your sleeping problem? Yes, yes, yes and yes? Then kickstart your New Year in the best possible way with Zest magazine's New Year, New You event, focusing on diet, nutrition and ...

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Alice's Cyprus International 4-day Challenge blog: 10K Paphos City Run

By Alice Palmer on in Events

Waking up when it was still dark on Sunday morning, with screaming leg muscles and buses to the start leaving at 6.45am sharp, the prospect of taking on another race seemed impossibly cruel. But one thing spurred me on: the smug knowledge that by the time the UK was waking ...

Alice's Cyprus International 4-day Challenge blog: Multiterrain Half-Marathon

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Grinning like a loon while bounding down twisting trails, the sea in the distance growing ever closer, I realised - there it was. My running mojo. It was BACK! The half-marathon starts a bit like the 11K hill run - pale, dusty, rocky trails. But thanks to a start at 300m rather than ...

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