out more, visit www.marathondumedoc.com. For a package that includes guaranteed race entry, transfers and accommodation in Bordeaux, visit www.209events.com. If you can't wait until next September to combine your running and drinking passions

team of four were all in a checkpoint at the same time, but it's hard to go at someone else's pace so we tended to string out along the course. Conversation turned to all the foods and drinks we'd like to eat when we returned to civilisation. Frozen

' Champagne at every drinks' station in the villages you pass though. After the civilised 3pm start, around 2000 runners head through the undulating French countryside, with more than half in fancy dress hoping to win a prize for the best costume.Race website