.The Leisure Centre where we will be meeting is adjacent to the track - it's not the building which houses the swimming pool a few hundred yards to the southPace GroupsThere will be a pace group for each of our eight marathon target bands

-Marathon (Merseyside, March 29) Starting and finishing in the heart of the city centre, the course takes runners on a whirlwind tour of Liverpool's newly developed waterfront. Look out for the RW pacers too - we'll be leading groups at 7-, 8-, 9-, 10- and 11-minute

for money; fantastic organisation; friendly runnersApril 4 Bungay Black Dog Marathon, Suffolk Flat, riverside courses; being scared by local ghost stories; events with a post-race beer tentApril 18 Flora London Marathon Crowds; atmosphere; fancy dress

all met the previous evening at the event pasta party held at the Signarama store in Paris. Here there were discussions of training regimes, with huge weekly mileages the norm, all intermingled with traditional French hospitality. Glyn, Mickael

the distance back to the city. The rest gathered themselves up, some in formal units, others as groups of friends and neighbours, with their shields and equipment slung on their backs, and ran and trotted back as best they could in the August heat. We could say

marathons before. They weren’t fun. They were hard. Hard and unquestionably painful. Yet just from flicking through the official race guide it’s clear that the event certainly has a lot going for it. A short but impressive history dating back to 1990 - when

contradictions extend to sport. Baseball and boxing are national obsessions, but the idea of running is so far off the radar that a morning jog along Havana's Malecon seafront can still turn heads. In a country where the American trade embargo has made food

event makes it the perfect way to spend a sunny Wednesday evening. Entire families often attend the event - with the kids racing in the fun run and the parents in the 5K.Like the River Run 5K, the fun run starts and finishes beside the picturesque river

to the expo. The only problem was that most of the runners decided that this would be the best time to visit, so it took us a while to get our numbers through the crowd. From there we headed over to our pasta party kindly arranged for us in Signarama. The food

, but people are cycling in little groups and chatting. Everyone has their first name and national flag printed on their race number so it's easy to start conversations. I speak to many British, Irish and American riders, but I can't find anyone who has done