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

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-watering trio of events ever. Fights are already breaking out in our offices over who will go on which trip...Here are what are undoubtedly our two finest travel packages, just for you in 2004. We run them in conjunction with Mike Gratton's 2:09 Events.RW Swiss

to bed. Turns out it wasn’t even ’is ’ouse. T’were ’is next door neighbours, like. To make things worse, he were sick on their cat.”“Aye. He ran a crackin’ race next day though. Knocked three seconds of t’ Commonwealth 10,000m record, as I recall

seasoned marathon veterans. Even the armchair fan is catered for with the kind of elite field that even the Olympics or World Championships envy. The inaugural event in 1981 was inspired by the New York City Marathon, but its ongoing success has made

3= Chicago MarathonIt may not have the crowds of New York City or the history of Boston, but in nearly all other respects Chicago now holds the edge as America’s best and biggest marathon. From its nadir in 1987 when the event was cancelled, Chicago

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Snowdonia Marathon: a 900ft climb over four miles"You can run London, Paris, New York every year - but to feel you have really 'run' a marathon, try Snowdonia. When you finish, you know you have run a proper 26.2 mile race. Best in the World

.More than 60 races made the grade, based on everything from “the sheer joy of running in a famous city" (Anne McGrane on the magic of the Paris Marathon) to this: “It was 10pm and a new moon was rising. The dune was awe-inspiring, a long ridge of sand