- as well as giving you a good shot at beating your 5K and 10K PBs.Threshold Summer Races (Stratford-upon-Avon, June 12)Race series are just as much social events as they are an opportunity to claim new PBs and few races exemplify this more than

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are sweeping Europe and the Madrid edition of this Spanish 5K series reflects their increasing popularity. Part of a series that includes similar events in the cities of Malaga, Valencia, Gijon, Vitoria, Seville, Barcelona and Zaragoza, this women-only race

+ Milton Keynes Half-Marathon (Buckinghamshire, March 8) Hogweed Hilly V (Gloucestershire, March 22) Mizuno Liverpool Half-Marathon (Merseyside, February 29)Military 10K and 5K (Monmouthshire, March 21) Good for: serious squaddiesTake the plunge

Half-Marathon, Egmond aan Zee (January)2009 Date: January 11Buck the trend of foreign runners heading to Dutch big-city marathons at the Egmond Half-Marathon. The route is a single loop starting with 5K through the coastal village of Egmond aan Zee

of that, she reckons her running will gain from the more varied training. "I hope that it may also force me to do some speed training, which I don't do enough of at the moment; therefore hopefully my 10K and 5K times should improve," she says.When asked

...UrbanathlonManchester, July 31There are no muddy fields, but you'll still end up grubby after tackling the worst this 5K can throw at you - including a fireman's water slide and derelict cars to be vaulted

as anyone training for their first 5K, 10K or marathon – whatever the distance, it’s the same nerves. Hoping that I’ve done enough, thankful to have stayed injury-free. I swing wildly from being scared to feeling calm because I know worrying at this stage

run together over a range of distances, from 21K or the shorter 6.5K in Wiltshire, to 5Ks and 2.5Ks on September 2 in Devon’s Haldon Forest, Kent’s Hop Farm Country Park on September 23 and Nottingham’s Sherwood Forest on November 4. And pets mean