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GORE-TEX® Fan Dance: Can You Conquer It?

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Test your strength and navigation skills on the Brecon Beacons with this tough team challenge

We have just heard about a new exciting team challenge in the Brecon Beacons - and we thought it might be perfect for some of you.  The GORE-TEX® Experience Tour returns for its third year – now with a new September adventure, The Fan Dance. Ten walkers will be set the mission ... 

Apply Now for the Mars Refuel Drink Fund

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Top up your club's coffers with Mars Refuel Funding

Your running, athletics or tri club needs you! Every month until September the Mars Refuel Drink Fund have £5000 to give away to sporting individuals or clubs. Your club could be awarded one of the three categories of cash prizes up for grabs: gold (£1000), four silver (£500) and eight bronze ... 

Biofreeze Marathon Pack Winners

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Have you won 100 sachets of cool, soothing pain relief?

To celebrate the 2012 London Marathon, we gave 30 lucky readers the chance to win a marathon pack of 100 Biofreeze gel sachets, for treating yourself over a whole season or sharing with training partners. We've passed all the winners' details on to Biofreeze, so they should be in touch shortly. Look ... 

Home Run: London Launch

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Find our more about Home Run – a new scheme in London promising to take the stress out of your running commute

Keen to avoid the frantic hustle and bustle of public transport? Like running but hate running backpacks?  A solution is at hand (for lucky Londoners, at least). The exciting initiative Home Run launches fully next week, a scheme that will have all your office clobber lugged back to your home so ... 

Olympic Spirit: Alive and kicking?

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Does the 'Olympic spirit' still exist, or has it been swallowed up by commercialisation? I was delighted to be invited to a debate with a star-studded panel exploring this very issue, which took place yesterday at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni (that's the French Cultural Insitute in the UK). Continue reading ... 

Saucony FIND YOUR STRONG Competition Winners

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Did you have the winning 15-word formula in Saucony’s FIND YOUR STRONG Competition?

To celebrate the launch of Saucony’s "Geometry of Strong" range, we gave 20 lucky readers a pair of the range’s ProGrid Guide 5 shoes. To win all you had to do was tell us how you “"FIND YOUR STRONG" in 15 words. We were inundated with great entries and we picked ... 

ASICS Watford Half-Marathon Competition Winners

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Have you bagged a place in the ASICS Watford Half-Marathon next weekend?

We teamed up ASICS to offer 10 lucky runnersworld.co.uk members a place in this great race on February 5. They’ll join members of the ASICS Target 26.2 team and they can hit their targets with the help of the Runner's World Pace Team. The winners are below: Mark Collin (Bookham) Paul Berriman ... 

Golden potential: Kelly Holmes shapes running's next generation

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Discover how the double gold Olympian is inspiring the next generation of athletes - and pick up a six-step training model to try at home

Last week we were lucky enough to meet Dame Kelly Holmes and six of her On Camp with Kelly protégés - amongst them the 2011 World Championship 1,500m silver medallist Hannah England and 800m semi-finalist Emma Jackson. Radiating confidence, unfailingly articulate and looking more like Britain's Next Top Model contestants than ... 

An Evening with Ranulph Fiennes

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Soak up the globetrotting achievements of explorer Ranulph Fiennes, get a taste for bushcraft and learn the secrets of the desert at this inspiring evening event.

When we got an email about this event we just had to share it with you. Whether you enjoy the muddy madness of cross-country or stick to organised 5Ks, all runners will be inspired by the feats of celebrated explorer Ranulph Fiennes. Since following Fiennes back in 2003 as he ran ... 

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