Fancy running one of the world’s biggest and best marathons? How about a bit of shopping?Courtesy of 2:09 Events, we are giving away a trip for two to New York on New York City Marathon weekend (November 5, 2006), including flights

the London Marathon three times dressed in one of the charity's heart outfits. "The costumes were designed by a non-runner," he says, "so they are a bit restrictive around the knee, but the wonderful crowd support more than makes up for moving at a shuffle

/£11 payable to Harrow Charity Marathon by October 14.ENTRIES TOM Swindles, PO Box 299, Harrow, Middx HA3 0TXE-MAILharrowmarathon@tesco.net

Flora London Marathon: Sunday, April 22WHY RUN IT?The world’s top marathon. Run over a fast course, which runs downhill overall from Blackheath to The Mall. Entries closed many months ago and the only route open is now via charity places. RW pacers

, it isn’t a particularly quick course. Thirty competitors ran the inaugural race last year, in the event organised by the charity Cystic Fibrosis Trust, but this year the 80 limit will definitely be reached.FEES£20, payable to Cystic Fibrosis Trust

entries en-block for FLM, and then offer them as Golden Bond places to runners who agree to raise a minimum level of sponsorship. This can be from £750 upwards, which means getting 30 people to sponsor you a pound a mile. Running for a charity means you

-to-rate list of race series and multi-stage events. 1 Race For Life Series, from MayWith over 300,000 runners, many first-timers and £17.5 million raised, Cancer Research UK Race for Life is the best thing to happen in running over the last decade.2 Cancer

figure in British running. Over a third of the entry price goes to charity, too.Good weather is guaranteed*, and an RW forum picnic area is taking shape, with dozens of RW members in the race already. Bring a flan, and be ready to strike up conversation

of the RUNNER'S WORLD team: Sub-1:30 with Sean Fishpool, Steve Smythe and Rob Spedding; Sub-1:45 with Steven Seaton and Oliver Roberts; ‘Get You Round’ run-walk group with Pauline Carter, Nicola Freeman and Catherine Perry. (They will be anticipating a finish

Every year at Runner's World, we come across people who achieve amazing things and who use running as a force of change, in their own lives and in the lives of others. Go to any running event in the UK and you'll find them. They are the beginners