. Some wading up to your knees through muddy inlets is also not out of the question, with a brisk sea breeze howling down the beach. This classic finishes with a 5km loop in the town of St Valéry sur Somme, to the applause and encouragement of several
and on to the halfway point, at which point the rain returned with a vengeance and for the second time today I thought why.As I entered Docklands my left knee started to hurt and I found myself digging deep, unknown to me at the time this was my hardest part, through
Distance: 750m/ 20K/ 5KWhere: Karnes, Argyll, ScotlandWhen: July 3First man: Graham Leitch 59:13First woman: Kerry Macphee 1:10:12Last finisher: 2:04:29No of finishers: 117This new sprint-distance event is bound to become a season favourite
the knee-creaking inclines at miles three and eight. However, on the upside these were balanced by a recuperating mile-long downhill stretch afterwards. It wasn't the most beautiful route, but the race facilities bagged the event some serious brownie points
be troublesome. The merman among our guinea pigs has been swimming since he was a toddler, but long-distance running is not a hobby: "I play football, so I do quite a bit of running," he says. "Nothing like 10K though. Also I have dodgy knees so try to do all my
of hay bales. The largest natural obstacle was a freezing knee-deep stream through which participants had to run for around 70m.By contrast, the second half lacked any obstacles, the organisers obviously feeling that headwind plus shoe-sucking bogs
half IM distance, the event was longer than most of the forum contingent had attempted to date.The previous months of frenzied training had not been without its casualties. A week before the race the list of injuries had grown amongst the forumite
resemblance to the editorial department of RUNNER’S WORLD. In the middle of the clearing, on an ancient Aztec throne, sat Seaton. Slowly, he turned his enormous, shaven head towards me. The firelight danced on his oiled torso. My mouth was dry with fear and a
that allows you to enjoy the event as much as the spectators cheering you on?When Tom Day started running for Leukaemia Research after his father was diagnosed with the disease, he decided to become part of the charity's Banana Army at last year's London
The Abingdon gang assemble before the startThe 2003 Abingdon marathon was a great forum event, due mainly to Ashley Smith who went to great lengths to organise the social side of things and to Abingdon Amblers AC who made us so welcome despite
