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Racing Away: Top Travel Tips
By David Mitchell on 23/10/2008 12:05:57
Here's how to make sure that race overseas really does prove to be the experience of a lifetime
Leaving on a jet plane for an overseas event? Lucky you! Here’s how to make sure you hit the ground running and avoid having a racing holiday from hell. Bon voyage!BEFORE YOU GOGetting A VisaWithout the correct visa you might never get off
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Top 10 French Races
By Runner's World on 08/07/2000 19:50:59
Le Championnat du Canigou
at these altitudes (2784 metres). Taking your woolly hat to the South of France in August may seem bizarre, but runners came up against -4°C temperatures at the summit last year. And for those tending towards masochism, a separate ranking is run for those carrying
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Game For A Marathon: Running The Kenya Safaricom
By Ashley Smith on 18/07/2005 13:57:49
It's a marathon serious enough to attract the world record holder, where elephants, nervous Westerners and thousands of locals all play their part...
’s 10 toughest marathons. The course is 1650m above sea level, and it’s in a game reserve. I told him he was mad.He kept badgering me, until eventually I was converted to his way of thinking, much to my wife’s disapproval.Altitude was certainly going
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Top 10 French Races
By Alison Hamlett on 10/10/2008 12:11:29
Featuring... La Champenoise, Les crêtes du Pays Basque, 6000D La Plagne, Marvejols-Mende, North Face Ultra Trail du Tour du Mont-Blanc, Paris-Versailles, La Ronde Cérétane, La Ronde des Foies Gras, Les 20K de Paris, Maratho
. If that sounds too strenuous, there are also two shorter races: the two lakes trail is a 22K event starting at Plagne Bellecote and climbing up to Dou du Plaz to join the 6000D course, while the Randoplagne is an 11K race that links the various high-altitude
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Top 10 Spanish Races
By Alison Hamlett on 13/10/2008 17:42:39
Featuring... Vila de Santa Pola Half, Granollers Half, Barcelona Marathon, Cursa Bombers 10K, Madrid Marathon, Medio Maraton de Madrid, Madrid Women's 5K, Behobia-San Sebastian, Seville to Los Palacios Half, San Silvestre Vallecana
: April 26Madrid’s most important athletic event has seen around 200,000 runners attempt to complete the 42.2K run within the six-hour time limit, but only 120,000 have been successful to date – it is without a doubt survival of the fittest. The well
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Euro Stars
By Runner's World on 02/10/2008 15:09:43
Missed out on London? No worries - here are 9 European alternatives
: the Rotterdam Marathon is, quite possibly, one of the fastest courses in the world. The nearest you will come to a hill are the underpasses and occasional bridges, It’s the largest one-day sporting event in the Netherlands and also attracts a large number
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The Great Wall Marathon
By Sean Fishpool on 05/11/2002 15:51:33
If you're going to hit the wall during a marathon, you may as well do it with style
on the course for six and a half hours and that this is not only the first marathon for most of them, but some of them havent even tackled a road race before. Their secret? Theyve been training on the high-altitude, sun-baked lava fields of Hawaii, where
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The Great Wall Marathon
By Sean Fishpool on 05/11/2002 15:51:33
If you're going to hit the wall during a marathon, you may as well do it with style
on the course for six and a half hours and that this is not only the first marathon for most of them, but some of them havent even tackled a road race before. Their secret? Theyve been training on the high-altitude, sun-baked lava fields of Hawaii, where
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