Click to enlargeWhat are you doing on April 7 next year? Fancy spending the day running across Arctic ice floes in the world's, erm, coolest marathon?The winner of our Rave Run photography competition will win a luxury package to the fifth North

, with 700 runners in November. The race has raised £20,000 for charity in the last four years. The club also helped organise two Stevenage Race For Life 5Ks last July, and helps out at the London Marathon each year. Chris Leigh says the club is proud

? Credibility. Of course ambition, the joy of running and personal challenge all played their part. But when the Road to Beijing project culminates at the finish line of this year's Flora London Marathon, I will be able to look back and say I gave it everything

. After taking part in the 1982 London Marathon, he was inspired to start his own event to raise money for needy causes, on the rolling hills and streets of his hometown.Two years later, the Hastings Half-Marathon was born. The toughness of the hills

’s London Marathon,” says Patricia Davis, from Mitcham, Surrey.3. Look in the mirror “When I first noticed my leg-muscle definition and smaller dress size, I had the desire I needed to run longer and harder,” says Valerie Sweeney, from Peterborough.4. Sprint

, and was told he would never walk again.And yet barely fourteen months later on April 26 2009, he found himself standing on the start line of the Flora London Marathon - having defied both the predictions and orders of his doctors - ready to fulfil his pledge

, for example. Lock is the creator of his own running and training blog, neillock.co.uk. Far from being a grizzled pro, grittily churning out 80 miles a week, Lock was a completely new runner who had signed up for the London Marathon as a way of turning his

to improve the lives of others. There's the former army officer who overcame horrific injuries to complete the London Marathon, the 16-year-old British running sensation and the famous funnyman who ran 43 marathons in 51 days. They are the winners of our 2010

’s humid. You just don’t feel like it.So once you’ve lost it – and at some point you will – how do you get it back?“Motivation is a very tough issue to deal with, and has to come from inside you,” says Bud Baldaro, coach to Olympic marathon runner Marion

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